Michael Northrop
@michaelnorthrop.bsky.social
NY Times–bestselling author of novels, comics, and graphic novels for young readers, starting a new chapter with my 1st mystery series for adults! Rep’d by @saracrowelit.bsky.social. Research editor at Dance Magazine. More coffee, please!
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I spy exciting news for The Figman Files, my CIA loner–turned–B&B owner cozy mystery series! Keep watching this space! #writesky #writingcommunity #cozymystery
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We came home from a long road trip to find that my brother put up Christmas decorations in our yard. Wishing you a joyful and meaningful Leon 🙏🏻✨
December 4, 2025 at 1:38 AM
We came home from a long road trip to find that my brother put up Christmas decorations in our yard. Wishing you a joyful and meaningful Leon 🙏🏻✨
The desperate AI push (I swear it’s like 1 out of 3 commercials this weekend) is like if all the big companies tried to rebuild the economy around Segways. Segway highways! Segway delivery! Segway racing! Segways instead of office chairs! It’s a new technology that no one actually needs.
a man riding a segway in a construction site
ALT: a man riding a segway in a construction site
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November 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
The desperate AI push (I swear it’s like 1 out of 3 commercials this weekend) is like if all the big companies tried to rebuild the economy around Segways. Segway highways! Segway delivery! Segway racing! Segways instead of office chairs! It’s a new technology that no one actually needs.
Today’s book haul from @mysteriousbookshop.com: three locked-room mysteries! It’s practically a house! Cannot wait to dive in. @tommeadauthor.bsky.social #booksky #shopsmall
November 29, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Today’s book haul from @mysteriousbookshop.com: three locked-room mysteries! It’s practically a house! Cannot wait to dive in. @tommeadauthor.bsky.social #booksky #shopsmall
Trekked down to @mysteriousbookshop.com for #smallbusinesssaturday. Got the great old JDC paperback for $5, so that’s three murders and a steal! 🔪 😂 #booksky #shopsmall
November 29, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Trekked down to @mysteriousbookshop.com for #smallbusinesssaturday. Got the great old JDC paperback for $5, so that’s three murders and a steal! 🔪 😂 #booksky #shopsmall
Back down to earth with 921 words today. I’ll take it. Writing a novel is like filling a warehouse with shoeboxes. It doesn’t matter if some of them are size 8 #writingcommunity #writesky
November 29, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Back down to earth with 921 words today. I’ll take it. Writing a novel is like filling a warehouse with shoeboxes. It doesn’t matter if some of them are size 8 #writingcommunity #writesky
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posting AI videos is grounds for blocking with me, even if i would agree with the message in the video
don't post AI
don't post AI
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 PM
posting AI videos is grounds for blocking with me, even if i would agree with the message in the video
don't post AI
don't post AI
My plan was to eat sensibly today, but you see there’s all this pie here now
November 28, 2025 at 5:25 PM
My plan was to eat sensibly today, but you see there’s all this pie here now
No one: So, Michael, after 10 days away from your work-in-progress, did you write 3,200 words over the last 2 days?
Me, triumphantly: No, I wrote 3,200 AND EIGHT words!
No one: So basically—
Me: And two of those eight were “knock knock”!
#writesky
Me, triumphantly: No, I wrote 3,200 AND EIGHT words!
No one: So basically—
Me: And two of those eight were “knock knock”!
#writesky
November 28, 2025 at 5:17 PM
No one: So, Michael, after 10 days away from your work-in-progress, did you write 3,200 words over the last 2 days?
Me, triumphantly: No, I wrote 3,200 AND EIGHT words!
No one: So basically—
Me: And two of those eight were “knock knock”!
#writesky
Me, triumphantly: No, I wrote 3,200 AND EIGHT words!
No one: So basically—
Me: And two of those eight were “knock knock”!
#writesky
Wishing you all a happy Thanksgiving, anyway you slice it
November 27, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Wishing you all a happy Thanksgiving, anyway you slice it
EOD! Four (4!) writing days ahead! Also eating, drinking & TV watching days, but let’s focus on the writing, shall we? Excited to get back into the next mystery #writingcommunity #writesky
a laptop with a picture of a kitten on it
ALT: a laptop with a picture of a kitten on it
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November 26, 2025 at 10:15 PM
EOD! Four (4!) writing days ahead! Also eating, drinking & TV watching days, but let’s focus on the writing, shall we? Excited to get back into the next mystery #writingcommunity #writesky
People throwin elbows in the Aldi cheese section today #culturewar
November 26, 2025 at 6:19 PM
People throwin elbows in the Aldi cheese section today #culturewar
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Reminder that books make awesome gifts for all holiday events, and they taste sweeter when they’re from indie bookstores. Don’t know what to get? Indie bookstores have gift cards!
November 24, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Reminder that books make awesome gifts for all holiday events, and they taste sweeter when they’re from indie bookstores. Don’t know what to get? Indie bookstores have gift cards!
Just, uh, just one more question. Is NYC ready for my new t-shirt?
November 15, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Just, uh, just one more question. Is NYC ready for my new t-shirt?
I get up at 6, which was easier before it was cold & dark out then, but mornings are my favorite time of day. I feed Lotte the spare-lot cat, who is always waiting for me. I get a coffee & sit on a bench by the park. If the fact-checking load isn’t too heavy I write for a bit…
November 15, 2025 at 12:28 PM
I get up at 6, which was easier before it was cold & dark out then, but mornings are my favorite time of day. I feed Lotte the spare-lot cat, who is always waiting for me. I get a coffee & sit on a bench by the park. If the fact-checking load isn’t too heavy I write for a bit…
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This wknd, consider buying a book from your local indie bookshop? (It doesn't have to be mine) Other ways to show your support: tell other people about your local indie bookshop, share this post.
Also see my Indie Bookstores & Booksellers list:
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#IndieBookstores #ShopLocal
Also see my Indie Bookstores & Booksellers list:
bsky.app/profile/debb...
#IndieBookstores #ShopLocal
a cartoon of a woman hugging a book standing in front of a store that says support indie bookshops
Alt: Illustration a woman hugging a book standing in front of a store that says support indie bookshops
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November 14, 2025 at 12:04 PM
This wknd, consider buying a book from your local indie bookshop? (It doesn't have to be mine) Other ways to show your support: tell other people about your local indie bookshop, share this post.
Also see my Indie Bookstores & Booksellers list:
bsky.app/profile/debb...
#IndieBookstores #ShopLocal
Also see my Indie Bookstores & Booksellers list:
bsky.app/profile/debb...
#IndieBookstores #ShopLocal
So wait a second, not only do we not have flying cars yet—as I was told repeatedly as a child we would—but we don’t even know if we can make buses free? Buses that, I should point out, still run on the ground? Slowly?
Never trust adults, kids.
Never trust adults, kids.
November 14, 2025 at 2:39 PM
So wait a second, not only do we not have flying cars yet—as I was told repeatedly as a child we would—but we don’t even know if we can make buses free? Buses that, I should point out, still run on the ground? Slowly?
Never trust adults, kids.
Never trust adults, kids.
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One of my favorite things about NYC is that the entire fleet of NYC ferries was named by 2nd graders. I think about this every time my run takes me past the docks.
Anyway, there are people who went to work this morning aboard The Tooth Ferry and the Ocean Queen Rockstar.
Anyway, there are people who went to work this morning aboard The Tooth Ferry and the Ocean Queen Rockstar.
November 13, 2025 at 9:37 PM
One of my favorite things about NYC is that the entire fleet of NYC ferries was named by 2nd graders. I think about this every time my run takes me past the docks.
Anyway, there are people who went to work this morning aboard The Tooth Ferry and the Ocean Queen Rockstar.
Anyway, there are people who went to work this morning aboard The Tooth Ferry and the Ocean Queen Rockstar.
There’s a line in a Bee Gees song that goes “And you come to me on a summer breeze” and when I was a kid I thought it was “And you come to me on a submarine.” Everything was a James Bond theme to me back then.
November 12, 2025 at 9:50 PM
There’s a line in a Bee Gees song that goes “And you come to me on a summer breeze” and when I was a kid I thought it was “And you come to me on a submarine.” Everything was a James Bond theme to me back then.
The book haul so far at @necrimebakecon.bsky.social 📚 Murders, a loyal K-9, a touch of Agatha Christie, sure—but I was not expecting Sondheim! #writesky @loriraderday.bsky.social @joshpachter.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 7:12 PM
The book haul so far at @necrimebakecon.bsky.social 📚 Murders, a loyal K-9, a touch of Agatha Christie, sure—but I was not expecting Sondheim! #writesky @loriraderday.bsky.social @joshpachter.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Made it to @necrimebakecon.bsky.social 🦞 🔪 For the record, and despite what you may have heard, this is not me
November 8, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Made it to @necrimebakecon.bsky.social 🦞 🔪 For the record, and despite what you may have heard, this is not me
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People still constantly bring up my AI Statement page in the Scream zine. Some folks say it made them cry! I was going to be more eviscerating but instead felt the best way to make my point was just to be totally raw and vulnerable in a way AI can't be. sara-century.square.site
November 5, 2025 at 8:10 PM
People still constantly bring up my AI Statement page in the Scream zine. Some folks say it made them cry! I was going to be more eviscerating but instead felt the best way to make my point was just to be totally raw and vulnerable in a way AI can't be. sara-century.square.site
No one believed me when I said I was putting on real pants, when I said I was leaving the apartment and going somewhere nice for lunch. Well here I am at a strip mall in the Bronx so the joke is on you
November 5, 2025 at 5:46 PM
No one believed me when I said I was putting on real pants, when I said I was leaving the apartment and going somewhere nice for lunch. Well here I am at a strip mall in the Bronx so the joke is on you
1,270 words written, comic book script revised and sent (invoice too), and you know what? I’m not having leftovers for lunch today. Gonna put on my outdoor pants and go somewhere nice 👖 🌮 💻 #writesky #writingcommunity
November 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
1,270 words written, comic book script revised and sent (invoice too), and you know what? I’m not having leftovers for lunch today. Gonna put on my outdoor pants and go somewhere nice 👖 🌮 💻 #writesky #writingcommunity
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sorry but mamdani and cuomo should have worn blue and yellow hats, respectively
November 5, 2025 at 12:24 AM
sorry but mamdani and cuomo should have worn blue and yellow hats, respectively