James Kestrel

Author of FIVE DECEMBERS (Hard Case Crime, 2021). Not my first rodeo.

Lit Rights: Alice Martell @ The Martell Agency
Entertainment Rights: Jason Richman @ UTA

[James Kestrel @JamesKestrel]

I'm going to remember the best parts of the last 365 days, and I'm going to take all the rest and bury it in a deep, dark hole that no therapist will ever find.

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@TheCinesthetic Ennio Morricone

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@JoyceCarolOates Yes, this is a scam. I just got one with the official seal of Hawaii (where I live) ordering me to appear at the Municipal Traffic Court of St Louis County in Missouri, because someone’s AI sucks or he did a crappy cut and paste job.

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The Jason Statham movie is going to kick ass.

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@sorealfoods I’m sure it tastes like €500, but it looks like something you’d pour out of a can and feed to kids at an elementary school in Texas.

[Andy Ryan @ItsAndyRyan]

Publisher: So you've given us a book about a big friendly giant, one about an enormous crocodile, and another where a granny grows as big as a house. What's new?
Roald Dahl: There's this peach...
Publisher: Is it -
Roald Dahl: It's fucking huge

[James Kestrel @JamesKestrel]

Five Decembers was a bestseller in Germany again so I went full German for our Easter lunch. I made Jaegerschnitzel, mashed potatoes,sauerkraut, red cabbage salad, and homemade pickles.

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@FXRegan @stick631 Is it still polling higher than syphilis?

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@MJMcKean @RockLovesMe2 35 years after it came out and still, every time I come across an acoustic guitar I’m picking out “She Talks to Angels.”

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@AdamKinzinger If he needs a little condiment to go with his sack of anus he could read what the Founding Fathers had to say on this topic.

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@HenpeckedHal Man, I remember when my kid asked me how they get the bones inside chicken wings so they look so real.

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I had some calluses on my feet and my plan was to sit down and rub them with this rock I found outside. My wife caught me in the act and broke out her full kit of Yangzhou foot care products and now I’m at the foot spa.
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[Douglas Wright @DubhghlasWright]

If you haven't read other work by #EdgarAward winner @JamesKestrel, I highly recommend it. I just finished *The Dark Room*—written under his other name, Jonathan Moore. It was a perfectly crafted #noir #thriller that kept me up late turning pages. #books #writing

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My kids are nine and seven and I’ve been making complex breakfasts for them for years. Misoyaki salmon, eggs Benedict, crab cakes. Today I discovered they eat cereal. How did I not think of that years ago?

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My daughter made a catapult with her erector set and then came and found me to invite me to shoot checker pieces at my Edgar Award.

[Douglas Wright @DubhghlasWright]

I finished reading *The Night Market* by Jonathan Moore, aka @JamesKestrel. It was the third of his books I've read, and it definitely goes into my "would recommend to a friend" pile. Great near-future #noir #detective fiction. Thumbs up Jon.

P.S. Do you write by hand then?

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@JoyceCarolOates Yes, I would like to make a realistic John Wick movie, where John Wick gets killed in the first five seconds and the end credits roll.

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@JoyceCarolOates Never would have pegged her as a Rousseau scholar. “When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich.”

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@DubhghlasWright I’d have been happy to get a Hugo. I wrote a noir science fiction novel called The Night Market, but alas, no Hugo.

[Douglas Wright @DubhghlasWright]

I finished reading "The Poison Artist" this morning, by Jonathan Moore (aka. the Hugo Award winning @JamesKestrel) - It was a classy, page-turning drip chamber of mystery, longing, darkness...and absinthe.

#noir #fiction #murdermystery #books