NY Times–bestselling author of kids’ books @Scholastic & graphic novels @DCOfficial. Starting a new chapter w/ a mystery for adults in ‘26! Rep’d by Sara Crowe
Stop the presses! Young Alfred: Pain in the Butler is on the cover of @PublishersWkly! We kind of *are* the cover this week 😎 Congrats to @slotfi & @kendallgoode—you guys really served that one up on a silver platter 🍽️ Out 8/1 from @DCOfficial!
I am the only person at this Brooklyn coffee shop who was alive when this Steely Dan song came out. Like ten of them weren’t born yet and I am pretty sure the 11th was a vampire already by then
I used to be confuse discrete and discreet all the time, using the former when I meant the latter, etc. I kept seeing other people doing it too. It felt like no one knew.
Then I found the cure. Just write a cozy mystery. The whole damn village is discreet! #writingcommunity
Moving again, and I think it’s finally time to let go of my huge, Y2K era, “History Will Mock Them!!!!” stack of rejection letters. Everything from query letters to poetry journals, kept for 2+ decades out of pure spite! 😂 #writingcommunity#authorlife
📢 My 17th book! My ADULT DEBUT!!
THE BIRDER MURDER, a Figman Files Mystery, coming Dec. 6 from @crookedlanebks!!! Guys, I can’t even tell you. Years of work, a lifetime of reading mysteries. So so soooo excited for this one! #writingcommunity#cozymystery 🐦🔪🎉
📢 My 17th book! My ADULT DEBUT!!
THE BIRDER MURDER, a Figman Files Mystery, coming Dec. 6 from @crookedlanebks!!! Guys, I can’t even tell you. Years of work, a lifetime of reading mysteries. So so soooo excited for this one! #writingcommunity#cozymystery 🐦🔪🎉
Never stop saying "dozen" and "half dozen". Never stop using the word you read in an old novella. Never stop using your regional jargon. Don't succumb to an internationalized English stripped of its whimsy and romanticism in the name of streamlining global commerce.
IT WAS CALLED THE SCHOLASTIC BOOK FAIR AND THEY BROUGHT THE BOOKS TO THE SCHOOL AND SET IT UP LIKE A BOOKSTORE AND YOU COULD GET GOOSEBUMPS AND FEAR STREET BOOKS BUT ALSO MICHAEL JORDAN POSTERS AND NICKELODEON BOOKMARKS AND PENCILS THAT SMELLED LIKE CUPCAKES
Hard to pick one favorite line from Tuesday’s fantastic @EdgarAwards Symposium, but I’ll go with @GreggHurwitz: “To me, everything is character. Plot is nothing more than that character in motion through time.” #writingcommunity#characterdriven
AI writing is God-awful. It appears intelligent at first glance, empty at second. It possesses the insufferable buoyancy of a holiday rep. It offers little by way of humour, nothing by way of originality.
But its fatal flaw is the absence of vulnerability. A writer is a person and a person is a mess and, as readers, as people, as messes, we identify with the mess.
Despite its flaws, AI writing is spreading. Literary agents, drowning in submissions, have resorted to disclaimers discouraging AI writing. Literary magazines have done the same. Amazon, meanwhile, has struggled to stem the tide of AI-generated books.
✍️ Ioan Marc Jones
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