@stocktonsmith
Mystery writer. Permanent research phase. Wrote some goofy mysteries about stoners and a serious one. Like the Old Days (the serious one) is out now in ebook and paperback! https://stocktonsmithbooks.com/
BHH is a perfect example of graphic violence serving the narrative and themes. Part of why the scenes without violence hit so hard is the unflinching brutality elsewhere. Hopefully you can get it approved based on its literary merit. I would have learned a lot about reality reading it in 11th grade.
watching all these fastfood ceos dunking on mcdonald's man to thunderous applause and reposting has me wondering if his video was some 4d publicity chess to humanize ceos.
just sitting back watching capitalist efficiency raise useful, competitive, and profitable ideas above the morass of public drains like having food and houses and shit.
Destroying A Tale of Two Cities with online writing advice: youtu.be/Bx_PhZpBwBg
Tomorrow is the last day of the #Smashowrds sale! Get the Sarcophagus of Lamia for free while you can!
*movie voice* IN A WORLD...overflowing with gen AI garbage and "writers" trying to get rich quick, he made one promise: write fast-paced short novels you can read in a day (or 2 if you're a slow reader). Come on. It's free! You have nothing to lose but your boredom! #booksky #ebookweek26 📚
My locked-room mystery, Like the Old Days, is available now at @Smashwords for free for Read an Ebook Week: www.smashwords.com/books/view/1.... It's normally $4.99, so BIG SALE from March 1 - March 7!!! #ebookweek26 #Smashwords #booktok #booksky⚡️📚
For my debut at @flaminghydra.com, which I have just joined, I wrote about the utter weirdness of finding out your dentist was in the Epstein Files. flaminghydra.com/issue-514/
souls are great, but what if a machine could steal other peoples' and put my name on them?
while i am not an academic i did see this coming and post about it on bluesky, which is why i am quoted in this article
My locked-room mystery, Like the Old Days, is available now at @Smashwords for free for Read an Ebook Week: www.smashwords.com/books/view/1.... It's normally $4.99, so BIG SALE from March 1 - March 7!!! #ebookweek26 #Smashwords #booktok #booksky⚡️📚
"There are many affordable ways to get bread. You can cut flour with sawdust and other cheap forms of dust."
The D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force established in Executive Order 14252 of March 27, 2025 (Making the District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful), shall establish an online portal for Americans with law enforcement or other relevant backgrounds and experience to apply to join Federal law enforcement entities to support the policy goals described in Executive Order 14333. Each law enforcement agency that is a member of the D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force, as well as other relevant components of the Department of Justice as the Attorney General determines, shall further, subject to the availability of appropriations and applicable law, immediately create and begin training, manning, hiring, and equipping a specialized unit that is dedicated to ensuring public safety and order in the Nation’s capital that can be deployed whenever the circumstances necessitate, and that could be deployed, subject to applicable law, in other cities where public safety and order has been lost. ( (ii) The Secretary of Defense shall immediately begin ensuring that each State’s Army National Guard and Air National Guard are resourced, trained, organized, and available to assist Federal, State, and local law enforcement in quelling civil disturbances and ensuring the public safety and order whenever the circumstances necessitate, as appropriate under law. In coordination with the respective adjutants general, the Secretary of Defense shall designate an appropriate number of each State’s trained National Guard members to be reasonably available for rapid mobilization for such purposes. In addition, the Secretary of Defense shall ensure the availability of a standing National Guard quick reaction force that shall be resourced, trained, and available for rapid nationwide deployment.
Today’s Executive Order creating a *nationwide* military “quick reaction force” and setting up an online portal to permit random fascist vigilantes to join soldiers is one of the scariest things I’ve seen in U.S. politics in my adult life. Why is it not getting more attention?
your earlier post inspired me to look into the Bond continuation novels. Picked up Forever and a Day by Anthony Horowitz. About 1/4 in and it's also pretty good. Last time I read a post-Fleming Bond was almost 20 years ago!
I wrote something about this
“You should listen to the trans people in this thread and stop being a genitally-obsessed weirdo.”
medium.com/@shelleybwok...
My locked room mystery, Like the Old Days is out in paperback! If you're a smashwords user, The ebook will be free for Read an Ebook Week starting March 1st! #ebookweek26 #Smashwords #booksky ⚡️📚 books2read.com/u/m2wd61
The paperback is out now! And if you're a smashwords user, Like the Old Days will be free for read an ebook week starting March 1st!
welp. looks like wattpad took this down. no information why, they just removed the story and my account. Helpdesk copypasted the faq in an email and closed my support ticket. lol
If you've ever thought about picking up my books, now would be a great time because ✨vet bills✨
The audiobooks are also on sale on Chirp for $2.99 each until the 25th: www.chirpbooks.com/series/the-r...
Got a new book out. This one is a partial locked-room mystery about a bunch of people who get together for a cursed reunion party with their high school best friends. You can get it a bunch of places. Print edition coming soon (after proofs): books2read.com/u/m2wd61 #BookSky ⚡️📚
Serializing the first novel in the Inveztigators series, Benoni's Defense, on Wattpad. Now you can read it for free! Or more like EVENTUALLY you can read it for free. Ebooks and print are still available for purchase if you want to binge it instead: www.wattpad.com/story/408166...
#booksky ⚡️📚
Serializing the first novel in the Inveztigators series, Benoni's Defense, on Wattpad. Now you can read it for free! Or more like EVENTUALLY you can read it for free. Ebooks and print are still available for purchase if you want to binge it instead: www.wattpad.com/story/408166...
#booksky ⚡️📚
The surge in violence meted out by ICE absolutely should continue to be condemned, but I think a lot of people didn't realize or care that activists have been facing life-altering injury from cops for generations. "Law enforcement" has always been the violence. It ALL needs to stop.
I am writing excellent books that are also "inching toward profitability." Just throwing this out there in case anyone wants to throw $100 billion my way...
Got a new book out. This one is a partial locked-room mystery about a bunch of people who get together for a cursed reunion party with their high school best friends. You can get it a bunch of places. Print edition coming soon (after proofs): books2read.com/u/m2wd61
this is a must watch. Great movie that feels sorta forgotten?
do they know we can track orders? at least buy the book. then spam me all you want. lol
gonna become a paperboy and rise through the ranks until I can honestly put "New York Times Bestselling Author" on my covers.
it's another mass-mailing/marketing service. I'm on the free tier, which allows up to 10,000 subscribers. It's pretty basic on free, but if you're just wanting it for a newsletter, it works. kit.com/pricing
literally people out here like "i'd rather kill us all than use your name" and making good on the promise.
