D.C. Smith

Crime writer. S/L, 2019 CWA Debut Dagger; Finalist, Bloody Scotland Pitch Perfect '19; Finalist, 2019 Capital Crime New Voices; LL, 2020 #SFoW Friday Night Live

[D.C. Smith @dcsmithwrites]

Wow do I miss @VNatB1. Great people, great books, great vibe.

[Ewa Sherman @sh_ewa]

My Wednesday evening is sorted 📚 😀 👻 ⁦@bay_tales⁩ ⁦@VNatB1⁩ ⁦@elementaryVW⁩ ⁦@SimonBewick⁩ ⁦@JoninaLeos⁩ ⁦@graskeggur⁩ ⁦@CorylusB⁩ ⁦@icelandnoir⁩ ⁦@NewcastleNoir⁩ ⁦@MarinaSofia8⁩

[D.C. Smith @dcsmithwrites]

@SimonBewick It's certainly not lesser known, but Escape from New York has aged disturbingly well.

[D.C. Smith @dcsmithwrites]

@AnneHamilton7 Yes and no. I've been doing a course with JW over the past year, so that's forced me to commit and it's made the book a lot better. I've also been writing some fun stuff under another name in a completely different genre, but that's a bit more frivolous. And yes, we should.

[D.C. Smith @dcsmithwrites]

@AnneHamilton7 @writer_suzy @elissa_soave It just showed up in my feed, and no worries!

All good, all things considered. The baby I brought to that session is now three and has a little sister. Neither has been left in a box yet, despite occasional temptation.

How are you?

[D.C. Smith @dcsmithwrites]

@writer_suzy @AnneHamilton7 @elissa_soave Hey, as a serial finalist/loser of writing competitions, this one was tremendous fun even for those of us who...um, well, are me.

[Anne Hamilton @AnneHamilton7]

Entering my novel pitch (psych suspense) was great fun, then I was chosen...and had to pitch 🤣
If I can, you can! I'm still best friends with rejection - lucky I'm shamelessly persistent 😆 - but fellow pitchers @elissa_soave @writer_suzy are Out There!

[D.C. Smith @dcsmithwrites]

After four decades, a killer uses new technology to return to his unfinished job: chop down an entire family tree. Can Emma Johannessen stop him before she – or the daughter she gave up for adoption – becomes his next victim? #TheLastBird

#Crime #Thriller #JWPitchFestival

[D.C. Smith @dcsmithwrites]

Four decades. Three families. Two missing children. Can one woman stop a killer before the clock hits zero?
One man searches for a missing brother; one woman seeks the child she gave up for adoption. Both succeed. One wishes they hadn’t.
#Crime #Thriller #JWPitchFestival

[D.C. Smith @dcsmithwrites]

@DLMWrites I drove one on a long highway drive in Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, and Nebraska. Fun as heck on a long straight highway. A lot less so when driving in Kansas City.

[D.C. Smith @dcsmithwrites]

@cmacwritescrime @NolanDom And more seriously, there's a big difference between town names that would fit in Kentucky or Tennessee versus Iowa or Kansas, for example. You're not going to have a "Hollow" in either of the latter, but you'll have places named after forts and fords.

[D.C. Smith @dcsmithwrites]

@cmacwritescrime @NolanDom Call it Black Creek. Most people in rural America know what that means.

[D.C. Smith @dcsmithwrites]

@vpeanuts I think the answer is across the Atlantic. #10 doesn't want to lose the image of being ahead of the rest in opening back up and isn't willing to compare the conditions that led to the policy differences and opening over here in the US.

[D.C. Smith @dcsmithwrites]

@GreenAppleBooks Anything authored by Ayn Rand or that appeared on a high school syllabus. The latter says "I don't read," the former says a lot of unprintable things.

[D.C. Smith @dcsmithwrites]

@heidipearljames Not at all; yes, yes. Understanding the reasoning doesn't make my comically generic given name any more usable, and my middle initial being my father's given name also makes that unusable. Cap it off with a last name of astonishing blandness and you have a triple-barreled miss.

[D.C. Smith @dcsmithwrites]

@IamJBStevens Get the knife, sweep the legs. Then pull up to the truck rack like a boss and take it straight from the terminal.

[D.C. Smith @dcsmithwrites]

@SimonBewick At the risk of being far too literal:

It's one of a series of punny signs at the same location in Colorado and the guy behind it is named Vince Rozmiarek.

https://t.co/V9i2wX4cqF

[D.C. Smith @dcsmithwrites]

@Russellmania621 No, he hasn't. He was in line for a win with the second blown lead, not a save.

[D.C. Smith @dcsmithwrites]

@semoorhead As others have said, there's orange Gatorade (and Powerade, which is pretty much the same thing). If you want a drink that all Americans would know and that ONLY comes in Orange, use Tang. It comes as a powder, you mix in the water, and then it's a radioactive orange.

[D.C. Smith @dcsmithwrites]

@dustinjaywalker @ShotgunHoney Thanks so much, Dustin.

[D.C. Smith @dcsmithwrites]

Short piece out with @ShotgunHoney today. Really excited to be published with them, and hope y'all enjoy it.

[Shotgun Honey - Fiction with a Kick! @ShotgunHoney]

"Angie" by DC Smith (@dcsmithwrites) https://t.co/EzQInYLfF9