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Joshua Chaplinsky
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Author of 'Letters to the Purple Satin Killer', 'The Paradox Twins' & 'Kanye West—Reanimator.' LitReactor Managing Editor (2011-2023).
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Thanks Gabino! My debut novel is now available for preorder 🪓

After an incident at work, Tamsin escapes to the Scottish countryside to start over. But her new home comes with an odd neighbour, strange folktales, and disturbances at night 👀

Preorder: geni.us/homesick
Goodreads: tinyurl.com/3mdv69dp
A graphic showing the book cover for HOME SICK. Two creepy sheep heads stare out, one with dead shark eyes. All against a sickly pink gradient. The book sits on a backdrop of mist-wreathed trees. Text around the book reads: This house isn't haunted. She is. A brand new psychological horror from award-winning author Rhiannon Grist.
November 28, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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THE MONSTERS AMONG US is a viscerally cinematic and immersive dark fantasy/horror novel.

Winner of the Firebird Book Award, and Shirley Jackson Award nominee…and also 20% for Black Friday when bought directly from me:

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November 28, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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I got a Black Friday deal!

Black Friday book sale! My horror-comedies Apartment 239 and the sequel, High Strangeness, are both just 99 cents!

Apt. 239
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High Strangeness
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Apartment 239
Amazon.com: Apartment 239 eBook : Alley, Elford : Books
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November 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Thanks Gabino!
Today y’all should head over to @bookpeople.com and buy lots of books.
Mine, Gabino’s, errbody’s. 🖤
The outside of Book People at 6th & Lamar in Austin, Texas Author Kurt Phillips hold his books Noise Ordinance & The Hand of the Archer. The wall of horror. The horror section at Book People .
November 28, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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The basic premise of the setting of my novel series is it's always Black Friday. Even before I knew it was narrated by a coffee machine robot, I knew it took place in a mall that spanned the continent, where people lived and never left.

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screenshot of starred review of The Great American Deception in Publishers Weekly, full text at https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-946501-21-9 The Great American Deception Scott Stein. Tiny Fox, $14.27 trade paper (228p) ISBN 978-1-946501-21-9 Stein (Mean Martin Manning) delivers a madcap sci-fi take on the hard-boiled detective genre in this fun, near-future romp that’s chock-full of rapid-fire wit, tongue-in-cheek literary allusions, and playful futuristic absurdity. Arjay, a sentient, top-of-the-line coffee machine with an excess of pep, tags along on the cases of old-school PI Frank Harken within the luxurious but dystopian confines of the Great American—a giant, autonomous, U.S.-coast-spanning shopping mall. Though the grumpy gumshoe is not always thrilled by Arjay’s presence, he can’t deny that the bot makes a “damn fine” cup of coffee. When one of the Great American’s inhabitants, Pretty Lovely, hires Harken to find her sister, kidnapped heiress Winsome Smiles, Harken and Arjay are plunged into Great American’s underbelly, where they encounter genre staples including mobsters and incompetent cops. Stein keeps the stakes high and the laughs coming, juxtaposing the gritty mystery and dystopian setting with Arjay’s perky narration to excellent effect. Sure to appeal to fans of Douglas Adams, this zany, uproarious mystery is a constant delight. (May) review in Kirkus reviews of The Great American Deception. full text at: https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/scott-stein/the-great-american-deception/ In a giant, futuristic mall, a coffee machine with artificial intelligence excitedly narrates the exploits of its new owner, a retro-style, hard-boiled gumshoe. Stein’s (Lost, 2019) satirical SF detective yarn at least initially owes much to Douglas Adams before the material finds its own humorous tone. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy fans may recall Adams’ ancillary detail of robotic home appliances with “Real People Personalities,” often annoying, single-minded entities. And coffee machines were among those conveniences so accessorized. Arjay, the first-person (or first-gadget?) narrator here, is such a device, an ever upbeat, persistent, and talkative “top of the line” coffee maker. Arjay gets delivered to Frank Harken, a private eye of the old school, whose beat is the Great American, a fortresslike, coast-to-coast shopping/dining/entertainment/residential mall (shades of Somtow Sucharitkul’s Mallworld). The mall is a consumer paradise and haven for the elite in an otherwise ill-described (but doubtlessly unpleasant) future United States. Because of a prime directive to serve coffee in any circumstance, Arjay is mobile, resourceful, multilimbed, and filled with extra goodies such as laser cutters. The AI becomes sidekick to bemused tough-guy Harken. The chipper appliance recounts their initial case together, a missing custom-dentistry heiress named Winsome Smiles, connected to shady characters and now apparently kidnapped. Arjay’s enthusiastic narration takes readers through not only the standard private investigator clichés (mobsters, clueless authorities, duplicitous dames), but also bizarre boutiques and services (“legstentions”), literary references encompassing The Princess Bride and Edgar Allan Poe, and—in a very Hitchhiker touch—reams of persnickety Arjay non sequitur footnotes. (Sample: “Assas… screenshot of review of The Great American Betrayal on Vulture, naming it one of the best comedy books of 2022 full text at the full list at https://www.vulture.com/article/best-comedy-books-2022.html
November 28, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Thanks Gabino! Tales From Cemetery dropped 10/7. A horror short story collection perfect for getting a little spooky!
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My debut crime thriller, Welcome to Cemetery, is on KU too! Dropped 3/4

A little dark. A little spooky.
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November 28, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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I chipped a molar on my morning granola, so I have to go to the dentist. 🦷⛏️

It would make me feel better if you checked out my books. They're perfect for this stressful time of year because they're short and exciting and have families bickering maybe even harder than yours.
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The poster's two novellas, available for purchase/library borrowing. THE GLASS GARDEN has a kaleidoscopic cover, THE NIGHT LIBRARY OF STERNENDACH: A VAMPIRE OPERA IN VERSE has batwings and a book against a starry sky. They books are resting on a lawn strewn with autumn leaves.
November 28, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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#FridayReads courtesy of the man himself. Thanks, GI!
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November 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Happy Thanksgiving! I’ve got a new short story up at @whiskeytit.com Looney Tunes meets murder ballad.

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The Ballad of Miss Mouse
Puddock went a-courtin’ and he did ride, like a shot across the plains, Miss Mouse thrown across the back of his horse, Uncle Rat’s gold jangling in his pocket. He dug in heels splashed with would-…
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November 27, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Happy birthday to the one and only Jeff Noon!
November 24, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Tonight’s viewing:
November 24, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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T*ktok engagement on my new novel announcement vs a video of my cat licking a pillow:
November 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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November 21, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Damn! Already sold out. What a gorgeous cover!
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The Din of Celestial Birds by Brian Evenson
PREORDER NOW! Front cover artwork by Frank Walls Though published second after Altmann's Tongue, The Din of Celestial Birds (1997) consists of the best of Evenson's early stories. They take place in a...
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November 20, 2025 at 2:35 PM
jchaplinsky.bsky.social
"The spiderman is having me for dinner tonight" might be one of the creepiest lines ever committed to music.
November 19, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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We need libraries for so many reasons.

www.11alive.com/article/news...
Georgia Public Libraries generate $3.75 return for every dollar invested, new study finds
Georgia's public libraries generated $1.06 billion in services in fiscal year 2024, supporting 5,488 jobs and producing $3.75 of value per public dollar.
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November 18, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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Almost 15 years later... new Grace Krilanovich! Acid Green Velvet coming next year from @twodollarradio.bsky.social.

I interviewed Grace in 2011 for ChuckPalahniuk dot net. Here she is talking about what I think is Acid Green Velvet: web.archive.org/web/20111101...
November 18, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Song of the day: Force Fed Rainbows by Failure
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Force Fed Rainbow, by Failure
from the album In The Future Your Body Will Be the Furthest Thing from Your Mind
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November 18, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Armie Hammer must be SO PISSED about the existence of Glen Powell.
November 17, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Last night’s viewing: Fascinating and heartbreaking.
November 13, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Truth!
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My (short) short story, The Ballad of Miss Mouse, has been accepted for publication in the forthcoming issue (first one in over a year!) of Whiskey Tit Journal. It's kind of a cross between Looney Tunes and a murder ballad. @whiskeytit.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:30 PM
jchaplinsky.bsky.social
So proud of my niece, she’s in the latest episode of The Chair Company!
❤️❤️❤️🪑🪑🪑
I don’t know the name of her character, but she shows up at the very end. Don’t spoil it for me, I haven’t watched it yet!
November 11, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Lol, can't believe this wasn't a scripted bit:

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Mickey Rooney: Talk of Gerbils | Late Night with Conan O’Brien
YouTube video by Conan O'Brien
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November 10, 2025 at 11:16 PM
jchaplinsky.bsky.social
My (short) short story, The Ballad of Miss Mouse, has been accepted for publication in the forthcoming issue (first one in over a year!) of Whiskey Tit Journal. It's kind of a cross between Looney Tunes and a murder ballad. @whiskeytit.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Sunday’s viewing: a Quentin Dupieux double feature.
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 AM