Daniel Verastiqui
@danielverastiqui.com
🤯 serving up mind-blowing cyberpunk thrillers
🔜 HOUSE OF NEPENTHE (2026)
📍 Austin, Texas
🔗 Get BARTERING NOLA for free at danielverastiqui.com
🔜 HOUSE OF NEPENTHE (2026)
📍 Austin, Texas
🔗 Get BARTERING NOLA for free at danielverastiqui.com
I watch my favorite #horror movie, the star-studded House on Haunted Hill, every October, and my favorite part is still watching Chris Kattan just trying to get paid and get the f out of there.
October 9, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I watch my favorite #horror movie, the star-studded House on Haunted Hill, every October, and my favorite part is still watching Chris Kattan just trying to get paid and get the f out of there.
Every time I'm cutting dialogue...
October 9, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Every time I'm cutting dialogue...
Don't tell me how to feel, QueryTracker...
September 22, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Don't tell me how to feel, QueryTracker...
“Uh… hi, this is Bob Newhart calling from, uh, the… well, I guess you’d call it the ‘Patriotic Apparel Compliance Office,’ if that’s still the name. Right. Good.
September 22, 2025 at 1:02 AM
“Uh… hi, this is Bob Newhart calling from, uh, the… well, I guess you’d call it the ‘Patriotic Apparel Compliance Office,’ if that’s still the name. Right. Good.
Reason for return: spine is damaged and unsuitable for display on my bookshelf I’m not an animal
September 19, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Reason for return: spine is damaged and unsuitable for display on my bookshelf I’m not an animal
Just mocking me at this point.
September 18, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Just mocking me at this point.
For the afternoon crowd, VISE MANOR is #free today. It's a #cyberpunk murder mystery that, according to one review, isn't a murder mystery since no one dies in the first 100 pages.
So, you know, set your expectations accordingly. 🫠
Get it here: amzn.to/4goThLL
#FreeKindleBooks #FreeBookPromo
So, you know, set your expectations accordingly. 🫠
Get it here: amzn.to/4goThLL
#FreeKindleBooks #FreeBookPromo
September 16, 2025 at 8:01 PM
For the afternoon crowd, VISE MANOR is #free today. It's a #cyberpunk murder mystery that, according to one review, isn't a murder mystery since no one dies in the first 100 pages.
So, you know, set your expectations accordingly. 🫠
Get it here: amzn.to/4goThLL
#FreeKindleBooks #FreeBookPromo
So, you know, set your expectations accordingly. 🫠
Get it here: amzn.to/4goThLL
#FreeKindleBooks #FreeBookPromo
Years ago, a sales guy told me, "It's easy to sell something when the price is free," so every now and then, I make one of my books free to prove him wrong.
So don't click this link and get the #Kindle version of VISE MANOR for #free, because then he wins.
📖 danielverastiqui.com/amazon/vise-...
So don't click this link and get the #Kindle version of VISE MANOR for #free, because then he wins.
📖 danielverastiqui.com/amazon/vise-...
September 16, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Years ago, a sales guy told me, "It's easy to sell something when the price is free," so every now and then, I make one of my books free to prove him wrong.
So don't click this link and get the #Kindle version of VISE MANOR for #free, because then he wins.
📖 danielverastiqui.com/amazon/vise-...
So don't click this link and get the #Kindle version of VISE MANOR for #free, because then he wins.
📖 danielverastiqui.com/amazon/vise-...
Any writing assistant that tells you to replace "eye-holes and finger-clicks" with "feedback" should be uninstalled immediately.
September 16, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Any writing assistant that tells you to replace "eye-holes and finger-clicks" with "feedback" should be uninstalled immediately.
I do enjoy Reedsy's over-the-top enthusiasm for all things self-publishing, but sometimes I read their stuff and it's like: you lost me at step 1, bro.
September 11, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I do enjoy Reedsy's over-the-top enthusiasm for all things self-publishing, but sometimes I read their stuff and it's like: you lost me at step 1, bro.
Still trying to wrap my brain around this advice from querytracker.com.
After I'm famous? Don't you mean if? And IF that never happens, will I have lived my entire life "sticking to the rules" when it comes to my personal expression of high octane, violence-fueled, erotic dystopian cyber thrillers?
After I'm famous? Don't you mean if? And IF that never happens, will I have lived my entire life "sticking to the rules" when it comes to my personal expression of high octane, violence-fueled, erotic dystopian cyber thrillers?
September 4, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Still trying to wrap my brain around this advice from querytracker.com.
After I'm famous? Don't you mean if? And IF that never happens, will I have lived my entire life "sticking to the rules" when it comes to my personal expression of high octane, violence-fueled, erotic dystopian cyber thrillers?
After I'm famous? Don't you mean if? And IF that never happens, will I have lived my entire life "sticking to the rules" when it comes to my personal expression of high octane, violence-fueled, erotic dystopian cyber thrillers?
"...not without raising 65% more eyebrows YOY."
September 1, 2025 at 12:54 PM
"...not without raising 65% more eyebrows YOY."
One of my favorite gags in writing: when the author forgets their character's cup is empty and has them take a drink and then dares to rewrite it like it was the character who was the dumb one.
I would try to do it in every book I write if it didn't already happen accidentally on its own.
I would try to do it in every book I write if it didn't already happen accidentally on its own.
August 29, 2025 at 9:01 PM
One of my favorite gags in writing: when the author forgets their character's cup is empty and has them take a drink and then dares to rewrite it like it was the character who was the dumb one.
I would try to do it in every book I write if it didn't already happen accidentally on its own.
I would try to do it in every book I write if it didn't already happen accidentally on its own.
At a certain point, reality begins to wear on you.
August 27, 2025 at 4:22 PM
At a certain point, reality begins to wear on you.
The best photo I took on my recent trip to Portland, OR.
August 25, 2025 at 6:15 PM
The best photo I took on my recent trip to Portland, OR.
The Digg reboot is currently invite-only so you'll need to join a waiting list if you want to become a datapoint in the post-humanist digital hellscape that is the internet in 2025.
August 23, 2025 at 1:43 PM
The Digg reboot is currently invite-only so you'll need to join a waiting list if you want to become a datapoint in the post-humanist digital hellscape that is the internet in 2025.
I will watch every Terminator movie.
I will listen to every Metallica album.
And I will play every Hideo Kojima game.
Until the end of my days.
Death Stranding 2 was 60 hours of bonkers insanity and soothing meditation, and I loved every minute of it.
I will listen to every Metallica album.
And I will play every Hideo Kojima game.
Until the end of my days.
Death Stranding 2 was 60 hours of bonkers insanity and soothing meditation, and I loved every minute of it.
August 11, 2025 at 1:45 AM
I will watch every Terminator movie.
I will listen to every Metallica album.
And I will play every Hideo Kojima game.
Until the end of my days.
Death Stranding 2 was 60 hours of bonkers insanity and soothing meditation, and I loved every minute of it.
I will listen to every Metallica album.
And I will play every Hideo Kojima game.
Until the end of my days.
Death Stranding 2 was 60 hours of bonkers insanity and soothing meditation, and I loved every minute of it.
Started and finished What Dreams May Come by Richard Matheson on a recent trip, and what a crazy good story and so much better than my book on life/death.
That’s how I’ve judged books for the last 20 years: is it better than my book(s)?
The answer is almost always yes. 🫠
Also this from 1978:
That’s how I’ve judged books for the last 20 years: is it better than my book(s)?
The answer is almost always yes. 🫠
Also this from 1978:
August 9, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Started and finished What Dreams May Come by Richard Matheson on a recent trip, and what a crazy good story and so much better than my book on life/death.
That’s how I’ve judged books for the last 20 years: is it better than my book(s)?
The answer is almost always yes. 🫠
Also this from 1978:
That’s how I’ve judged books for the last 20 years: is it better than my book(s)?
The answer is almost always yes. 🫠
Also this from 1978:
August 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Jake: "His name is Ridge Frost, and he lives on a frosty ridge up in the mountains? Come on!"
Me: "Forget it, Jake. It's Hideo Kojima."
#DS2
Me: "Forget it, Jake. It's Hideo Kojima."
#DS2
July 31, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Jake: "His name is Ridge Frost, and he lives on a frosty ridge up in the mountains? Come on!"
Me: "Forget it, Jake. It's Hideo Kojima."
#DS2
Me: "Forget it, Jake. It's Hideo Kojima."
#DS2
This is the kind of clickbait I fall for every day. “Hey here’s something that might actually stop him and oh never mind carry on the country is still in free fall.”
July 31, 2025 at 12:36 PM
This is the kind of clickbait I fall for every day. “Hey here’s something that might actually stop him and oh never mind carry on the country is still in free fall.”