Paul Ryan O'Connor
@paulryanoconnor.bsky.social
Crime-writing blogger & award-winning mystery author. MWA. Noir, pulp, monsters, fiction, jazz, writing, film, comics. Went by @LBoxGraveyard at that other place.
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2024 By The Numbers — Paul O'Connor
All the numbers from a full year of crime writing — hours spent and money earned.
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What does a 1100% increase in earnings look like? (Yes, this is a trick question). All the numbers from a year of crime writing.
NOT an April Fools post!
https://www.paulryanoconnor.com/blog/2024-by-the-numbers
NOT an April Fools post!
https://www.paulryanoconnor.com/blog/2024-by-the-numbers
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November 19, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Man-Thing! — Paul O'Connor
Keep your Giant-Size Man-Thing to yourself, thank you.
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November 26, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Damaged and delicate, but this is an incredibly rare edition of H G Wells's The War of the World's published as a pulp paperback c.1920
September 18, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Damaged and delicate, but this is an incredibly rare edition of H G Wells's The War of the World's published as a pulp paperback c.1920
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Pierre Cardin Spring/Summer 2009 Ready-To-Wear Collection, Théoule-sur-Mer, France (2008)
Photo by Valery Hache
Photo by Valery Hache
November 18, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Pierre Cardin Spring/Summer 2009 Ready-To-Wear Collection, Théoule-sur-Mer, France (2008)
Photo by Valery Hache
Photo by Valery Hache
"As we fill our hours and days with the work of rewriting, our fictions will not be written by any one self but by the spectrum of selves we're always becoming, even as the novel is becoming alongside us."
Matt Bell, Refuse To Be Done
#WritingCommunity
Matt Bell, Refuse To Be Done
#WritingCommunity
Refuse To Be Done — Paul O'Connor
Why we edit.
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November 25, 2025 at 5:46 PM
"As we fill our hours and days with the work of rewriting, our fictions will not be written by any one self but by the spectrum of selves we're always becoming, even as the novel is becoming alongside us."
Matt Bell, Refuse To Be Done
#WritingCommunity
Matt Bell, Refuse To Be Done
#WritingCommunity
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The oldest depiction of a cat in Egypt. Ancient Kingdom, 5th Dynasty, approximately 2500 BC. This relief is in the Vatican Museum.
August 5, 2025 at 11:43 PM
The oldest depiction of a cat in Egypt. Ancient Kingdom, 5th Dynasty, approximately 2500 BC. This relief is in the Vatican Museum.
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For me, suspense doesn't have any value if it's not balanced by humor.
(Alfred Hitchcock)
(Alfred Hitchcock)
November 19, 2025 at 9:38 AM
For me, suspense doesn't have any value if it's not balanced by humor.
(Alfred Hitchcock)
(Alfred Hitchcock)
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When too many people are involved in an entertainment discussion, it ceases to be fun and becomes a war about pizza toppings.
November 24, 2025 at 9:48 PM
When too many people are involved in an entertainment discussion, it ceases to be fun and becomes a war about pizza toppings.
New Magazines and Monsters podcast is up! Join Billy D and I for all your Man-Thing needs. Bone up on swamp monster lore and amaze your friends and family at Thanksgiving dinner!
@docstrange.bsky.social
www.paulryanoconnor.com/blog/man-thing
@docstrange.bsky.social
www.paulryanoconnor.com/blog/man-thing
Man-Thing! — Paul O'Connor
Keep your Giant-Size Man-Thing to yourself, thank you.
www.paulryanoconnor.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:05 PM
New Magazines and Monsters podcast is up! Join Billy D and I for all your Man-Thing needs. Bone up on swamp monster lore and amaze your friends and family at Thanksgiving dinner!
@docstrange.bsky.social
www.paulryanoconnor.com/blog/man-thing
@docstrange.bsky.social
www.paulryanoconnor.com/blog/man-thing
My mind map of a Ross Macdonald crime classic.
Diagraming Ross Macdonald
#CrimeFiction #crimewriting #writingcommunity
Diagraming Ross Macdonald
#CrimeFiction #crimewriting #writingcommunity
Diagraming Ross Macdonald — Paul O'Connor
Holy crap, Ross!
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November 24, 2025 at 5:45 PM
My mind map of a Ross Macdonald crime classic.
Diagraming Ross Macdonald
#CrimeFiction #crimewriting #writingcommunity
Diagraming Ross Macdonald
#CrimeFiction #crimewriting #writingcommunity
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Happy Thanksgiving week...
November 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Happy Thanksgiving week...
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💔RIP Udo Kier💔1944-2025💔
November 24, 2025 at 2:52 AM
💔RIP Udo Kier💔1944-2025💔
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Boris Karloff (23 November 1887 – 2 February 1969)
November 23, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Boris Karloff (23 November 1887 – 2 February 1969)
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Terrific review thread.
"John Glover, Clarence Williams III, & Robert Trebor are 3 of the lowest low-life's around, & being small-time is what makes them dangerous. Too dumb for their plan to work, too mean to call it quits."
(That last line could be my work ethos).
"John Glover, Clarence Williams III, & Robert Trebor are 3 of the lowest low-life's around, & being small-time is what makes them dangerous. Too dumb for their plan to work, too mean to call it quits."
(That last line could be my work ethos).
52 Pick-Up (1986) John Frankenheimer adapts Elmore Leonard on a Cannon Films budget
Roy Scheider's life goes sideways when he's caught in a honey trap & blackmailed by 3 small-time scumbags
If Spencer Tracy & Henri-Georges Clouzot made a sleazy 80s exploration flic, this would be that movie
1/7
Roy Scheider's life goes sideways when he's caught in a honey trap & blackmailed by 3 small-time scumbags
If Spencer Tracy & Henri-Georges Clouzot made a sleazy 80s exploration flic, this would be that movie
1/7
November 21, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Terrific review thread.
"John Glover, Clarence Williams III, & Robert Trebor are 3 of the lowest low-life's around, & being small-time is what makes them dangerous. Too dumb for their plan to work, too mean to call it quits."
(That last line could be my work ethos).
"John Glover, Clarence Williams III, & Robert Trebor are 3 of the lowest low-life's around, & being small-time is what makes them dangerous. Too dumb for their plan to work, too mean to call it quits."
(That last line could be my work ethos).
Sadly not yet on the stands, near as I can tell ... EQMM still sorting out their distribution issues from earlier this year.
Fingers crossed we see it before end of year. I think this issue will also contain the Readers Choice ballot, so it is going to be a compressed voting period this year. Alas.
Fingers crossed we see it before end of year. I think this issue will also contain the Readers Choice ballot, so it is going to be a compressed voting period this year. Alas.
My friend Paul Ryan O'Connor has a new story in the current issue of Ellery Queen.
#elleryqueen
#eqmm
#mystery
#elleryqueen
#eqmm
#mystery
November 21, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Sadly not yet on the stands, near as I can tell ... EQMM still sorting out their distribution issues from earlier this year.
Fingers crossed we see it before end of year. I think this issue will also contain the Readers Choice ballot, so it is going to be a compressed voting period this year. Alas.
Fingers crossed we see it before end of year. I think this issue will also contain the Readers Choice ballot, so it is going to be a compressed voting period this year. Alas.
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Images of noir. Brought to you by Mildred Pierce (1945). #Noirvember
November 13, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Images of noir. Brought to you by Mildred Pierce (1945). #Noirvember
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Born 21 November 1937, actress Ingrid Pitt. Her work with Hammer Film Productions elevated her to cult status. She starred as Carmilla/Mircalla in The Vampire Lovers (1970), based on Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's novel, and played the title role in Countess Dracula (1971). #IngridPitt
November 21, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Born 21 November 1937, actress Ingrid Pitt. Her work with Hammer Film Productions elevated her to cult status. She starred as Carmilla/Mircalla in The Vampire Lovers (1970), based on Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's novel, and played the title role in Countess Dracula (1971). #IngridPitt
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Day 21 #NoirvemberChallenge
Favorite Noir Made Outside the US
I’m sure I won’t be the only one recommending this, but Kurosawa’s STRAY DOG is magnificent.
Favorite Noir Made Outside the US
I’m sure I won’t be the only one recommending this, but Kurosawa’s STRAY DOG is magnificent.
November 21, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Day 21 #NoirvemberChallenge
Favorite Noir Made Outside the US
I’m sure I won’t be the only one recommending this, but Kurosawa’s STRAY DOG is magnificent.
Favorite Noir Made Outside the US
I’m sure I won’t be the only one recommending this, but Kurosawa’s STRAY DOG is magnificent.