Great to see Chicago magazine recognize Mac's Backs Books in Cleveland Hts, OH, as one of the best indie bookstores in the Midwest. (And Loganberry Books in CLE gets an honorable mention too.) #MacsBacksBooks #LoganberryBooks #indiebookstores #amreading #amwriting chicagomag.com/arts-culture/a…

July 30 is National Paperback Book Day. If you’re looking for something to read in honor of the occasion, please allow me this brief moment of shameless self-promotion. #NationalPaperbackBookDay #FlinchBooks #westernfiction #amwriting #amreading amazon.com/dp/B0C9SDMGSK

Next from the bottomless reading pile, from Erik Larson. #TheDevilInTheWhiteCity #ErikLarson #amreading

Novelist Mary Shelley, author of FRANKENSTEIN, born August 30, 1797. She created a monster when she was just nineteen years old. More than 200 years later, no one’s been able to kill it. #MaryShelley #Frankenstein #gothichorror #amreading

Edgar Rice Burroughs, born September 1, 1875. “If you write one story, it may be bad. If you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor.” #EdgarRiceBurroughs #Tarzan #Barsoom #Pellucidar #amreading

NE Ohio folks: I’ll be at the North Coast Indie Author Book Expo later this month (9/24) with dozens of other authors at the Residence Inn in Avon, OH. Stop by and say hello! #NorthCoastIndieAuthorBookExpo #MidnightGuardian #FlinchBooks #indieauthor #indiepublisher #amwriting

September 6 is National Read a Book Day. I’m still working my way through this one. What are you reading? #NationalReadABookDay #reading #TheDevilInTheWhiteCity #ErikLarson #amreading

Born on this day (September 7) just a few years apart: Jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins (1930) and rockabilly guitarist/songwriter Buddy Holly (1936). Holly died in a plane crash in 1959. Rollins is still alive (but retired) at 93. #SonnyRollins #BuddyHolly #jazz #rockandroll

Hey, #WritingCommunity! Another Friday! What’s everyone working on this weekend? Me: Finishing touches on a story pitch for Robert J Mendenhall’s CODE NAME: INTREPID series. You: ?? #amwriting #indieauthor #CodeNameIntrepid

September 8, 1966: The USS Enterprise makes its maiden voyage on prime-time network television in the premiere episode of Star Trek. The five-year mission has actually lasted for fifty-seven (and counting). #StarTrek #StarTrekTOS #StarTrekDay

I’m in a New York State of mind. #NewYorkCity #September11

Comic book artist Joe Kubert, born September 18, 1926. Kubert drew numerous characters for DC Comics — Hawkman, Sgt. Rock, Tarzan and more — from the late ‘40s to the mid ‘80s. #JoeKubert #Hawkman, #Tarzan, #SgtRock, #DCComics, #comicbookartists

Two writers born on this day (September 21) about eighty years apart: H.G. Wells (1866) and Stephen King (1947). Two tellers of scary stories, each in their own way. #HGWells #StephenKing #sciencefiction #horrorfiction #amreading #amwriting

Fall. #Fall #Autumn #AutumnEquinox

Spending my Saturday in a quiet room in my local branch of Cuyahoga Library, writing tales of adventure. My standing gig every weekend for the next several months, and probably my most productive day of the week. #CuyahogaCountyPublicLibrary #amwriting

Available now from Becky Books. Includes an essay by yours truly (and several others by a small army of highly talented writers). Thanks to Jim Beard for allowing me the opportunity to be a part of this project. #StarTrek #StarTrekTOS #BeckyBooks amazon.com/dp/B0CJXLKWZJ?…

Tell me something I don’t know. (The numbers in this Publishers Weekly article don’t lie. If you’re in it for the money, you’re in the wrong place.) #writing #indieauthor #indiepublisher #smallpresspublishing #amwriting #writingcommunity #PublishersWeekly publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/in…

The family is away this weekend, which opens up plenty of time and space for writing, editing and pitching story ideas. (Full disclosure: I won’t be smoking, and I don’t look anything like Gregory Peck. But still…) #amwriting #writinglife

Another trip to Half Price Books yesterday afternoon. The stack was much bigger when I was still in the store, but I exercised some restraint before I got to the register. #ElmoreLeonard #DavidGoodis #MattBraun #NickCarter #HalfPriceBooks #amreading

On the back porch on a Sunday morning with coffee, Rafael Sabatini and James Moody (his self titled album from 1959). It’s 65 degrees and sunny on the first morning of fall. Life is good. #fall #amreading #rafaelsabatini #jamesmoody #adventurefiction #jazz