Tom Fowler

#Coffee hot take:

I have yet to find a dark roast I enjoy consistently more than Folgers Black Silk. None of the fancy or “premium” coffees are any better, and almost all are worse.

The Manfred decision is an embarrassment for #mlb.

Or it would be if the commissioner’s bosses cared about anything more than their bank accounts.

Pete Rose broke THE cardinal rule of baseball, the one that goes to the game’s integrity.

He’s also an admitted statutory 🍇ist.

Fuck Pete Rose.

Pope names with “Adrian” and “Paul” highlighted. Adrian Paul played Duncan in the Highlander TV series.

Our next pope after the brand new one needs to be Duncan MacLeod of the Clan MacLeod.

Concrete Angels: A C.T. Ferguson Crime Novel (The C.T. Ferguson Mystery Novels Book 14) Get it now:

👋🏻 I write crime fiction and thrillers set in and around my home city of Baltimore.

My current WIP is book 18 in the mystery series. Here’s a recent favorite:

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The final season of BOSCH: LEGACY - more Bosch than legacy, but Harry is an all-time TV detective, so it’s OK. Recommended.

Looking forward to the Renee Ballard spinoff (with great casting).

Someone needs to pick up and run with the Tony Taters Bat Flip Mantle. Might as well be Adley.

This week’s B&N top indie faves.

My new thriller COLLISION COURSE got selected as a Top Indie Fave by the lovely folks at @barnesandnoble.com Nook Press!

Happy to be included. The Nook team are great partners in indie publishing.

Collision Course thriller book cover

A new book baby out in the world today.

This is the 9th #thriller in my ongoing series. At its core, the book is about family relationships and how they can evolve.

Overlaid with fistfights, bullets, and guns, of course.

Stuff your Kindle: Crime Edition, happening March 14, 2025

This amazing event is tomorrow.

Find some books for yourself… and spread the word if you’re a fan of the genres represented! #mystery #thriller #crimefiction #reading

Four episodes in now (out of six).

It’s not boring, but it’s still a bit of a slog. At least we got a few interesting developments this time. I can see where things are likely headed.

Season 1 remains the best, and 2 > 3 at this point.

This season of THE WHITE LOTUS is… kind of a slog. (Note: I have not yet watched episode 4.)

Great cast, but it’s mostly characters moving through set pieces and scenes. Not much in the way of real, meaty story, though the theme is carried throughout.

I hope things pick up over the second half.

Collision Course ebook cover, the 9th John Tyler thriller

I crossed the 70,000-word mark in my current WIP today.

This bad boy will be complete and to my editor by the end of the week.

Community matters, maybe now more than ever.

#Authors, find your people and love them hard.

“Misjudged,” by James Chandler

“My Plus One = You,” by @thatsnotchicken.bsky.social

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Check it out and let me know if you have any pain points I can cover in a future essay.

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One of the best things about writing in a series is discovering aspects to your characters you didn’t think of at the beginning.

I crossed the 30,000 word mark in my WIP today (technically a little over 31k when I finished).

Things are coming together nicely, which means they’re getting worse for our hero.

Congratulations! 🍾 🔪

I cook and bake.

Tom Fowler in Indie-Vidual Publishing I just made a post about ISBNs… probably the biggest minefield out there for authors. Even if you live somewhere they’re free, there’s a lot of confusion out there. What topics can I cover in the fu...

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Joe Sheehan called Soto leaving NYY the best move the Orioles have made in years, and I really felt that.

There’s still time for a splash this offseason, but I think there needs to be one.

“December is a bad month to release a book.”

As a middle finger to conventional wisdom, I’m releasing one on Christmas Day.

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“You’ve got garlic in your soul.”

Maybe the Grinch just enjoys flavorful cooking, Janet. You ever think of that?

The most tedious part is the behind-the-scenes stuff. I moved the site to a custom domain, so now I need to redo all the delivery actions (in BookFunnel) which used to work.

You can’t edit them in bulk, so I’ll need to do each one. Good thing I have days off coming up. #indieauthors

I’m moving my direct sales store from Shopify to Payhip. It’ll save me about $800 a year. While I’ll take a little hit on power, I think it’s more than worth it.

If you want to sell books from a website, use Payhip.

If you want to run an e-commerce business (spoiler alert: I do not), use Shopify.

From there, YELLOWSTONE was decent and sometimes good but never great again. (There’s too much talent on hand for it to be bad.)

The ending was probably the best we could get considering. Beth and Kayce are good characters, as are Rip, Rainwater, and Mo. Still, I wonder what might have been. (3/3)

The pilot is a slog, but from episode 2 through midway-ish thru S4, this was a really good show.

I thought it took a hit (do shows still jump the shark?) when Piper Perabo joined the cast.

It’s weird because I’ve always liked her as an actress. Her character, though, always felt out of place. 2/

We watched the finale of YELLOWSTONE last night. (It’s not officially the series finale yet, but come on, man. It is.)

It was… decent. Good moments. It’s obvious this 2nd part of S5 has been off the rails from the jump. Costner not returning probably caused most plans to get scrapped and redone. 1/

Co-signed on behalf of Orioles fans.

Bluesky must be a mature platform. The bow-chicka-wow-wow bots and the book marketing “experts” are here.