When the pandemic started, I spent a lot of time playing around with a software platform called GPT-3, which generates text based on whatever you input into it; newspapers such as The Guardian have experimented with using GPT-3 to produce articles, for example. I uploaded ten years’ worth of my writing into the system, curious…
Bank robber John Dillinger died on July 22, 1934. Except a small, dedicated group of people thinks he actually managed to elude death.
Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were infamous gangsters who accidentally helped invent modern celebrity culture, thanks to their use of a camera.
We’re out in paperback, and on Kindle, Nook, Apple Books, and Google Books, although I’m always big on encouraging folks to buy indie. Here’s the summary (which also touches on the prequel, Boise Longpig Hunting Club): Three nights ago, Jake Halligan and his ultra-lethal sister Frankie were kidnapped by a sadistic billionaire with a vendetta against their family. That billionaire offered them…
For the past few months, I’ve been working alongside co-editor Steve Weddle and publisher Jason Pinter (of Polis Books) on a very special project: “Lockdown,” an anthology of 20 suspense, noir, and horror stories set against the background of a (fictional) pandemic. And now, on June 16th, it’s finally out in the world! One hundred percent of…
And what’s he doing on the cover of that magazine? Over at Fast Company, I have a long nonfiction essay about the Iraq War, modern propaganda, and how the traditional tools of government-funded “public diplomacy”—such as radio stations and glossy magazines—are failing in the era of social networks and the dank meme. It’s called “Hi, We Failed to Sell…
The first reviews for “Boise Longpig Hunting Club” are lurking about. Over at Tough magazine, E.F. Sweetman calls the book “fast-paced” with a “dark storyline and sharp dialogue.” Also: “’Boise Longpig Hunting Club’ combines the best of both crime and thriller. The body count goes high, and the gun count goes even higher. It is filled with chaos, suffering, and…
‘Boise Longpig Hunting Club,’ my next novel from Down & Out Books, is now available for pre-order (it comes out August 13). The paperback is available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble (where it’s being offered at a pre-sale discount), along with the Kindle edition. Plus the Down & Out Books e-store is running a buy-the-paperback-get-the-ebook deal, although probably for a limited…
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