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Vincent Gardner
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Author. Recently published We All Wish, the start of the gritty-cozy Kennedy-Meyer crime drama series. Kinda like Spenser and Susan without the smarm.
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Enjoy using #Calibre to convert a doc to EPUB and then tweak, tweak, tweak the HTML and CSS. I've got two books coming up soon on Kobo - the first two in my hard-boiled, gritty-cozy #Kennedy-Meyer series. #writing #editing #BookSky #WeAllWish #Flip 💙📚🖋️
February 16, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Is it a law? I'm asking here: is it a law that the second you publish a #book, a big, fat, wet typo leaps up and slaps you in the face? Is. It. A. Law? #writing #editing #BookSky 💙📚🖋️
February 10, 2026 at 9:05 PM
Just noticed a typo on a random page of my upcoming book. It's been proofed to death, this book, but there it is - 'Wison' instead of 'Wilson'. Probably no one would ever have noticed, but it would bother me to the grave. #BookSky 📚🖋️💙 #writing #editing
January 30, 2026 at 3:31 PM
Surprised that my upcoming book took only nine drafts, instead of my usual 21 or 22. Am I improving, or lowering my standards? #writing #books #reading #BookSky
The cover of my upcoming novel, Flip, showing the title in extremely large font, with a small drawing of a house overtop of a line of upside houses. Book 2 in the Kennedy-Meyer series.
January 28, 2026 at 4:18 PM
Success in 2026! Somebody read thirty-six pages of a book I removed from sale two years ago.

Well, I'll take my fifteen-cent royalties any way I can get 'em. #writing #writinglife
January 15, 2026 at 1:06 AM
#Life is all about curiosity, imagination, creativity, discipline, persistence, patience.
January 10, 2026 at 4:41 PM
Not just 3D, either. I'd say that 3D and VR have had about eight lives each so far. Maybe one more go before AI sweeps us all under the carpet? www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
The Future of Film Is Behind Us
Whatever happened to 3-D?
www.theatlantic.com
January 9, 2026 at 4:21 PM
You make a post and it gets a like a half-second later. Not even enough time to read it. And it's usually a different account. Only about 10% of what we see on sm has any meaning or significance. This is one of the resaons I dumped bs and the other place. But I'm back. in. like a duhty shoit.
January 7, 2026 at 5:43 PM
In about three weeks I'll publish Flip, the second novel in my gritty-cozy, noir, hard-boiled, rom-com crime drama (think Spenser and Susan without the smarm). #BookSky 📚💙🖋️ #writing The series began with #WeAllWish:
The cover of We All Wish, a gritty-cozy, hard-boiled noir rom-com crime drama.
January 7, 2026 at 2:17 AM
#AI is sloppy because it's warning us, giving us a chance: don't do it. Really - just don't. You think it's bad now? It will get worse in ways you can't imagine. AI is Tony #Soprano and Richie Aprile. Unfortunately, we're Davey Scatino, determined not to listen to multiple warnings.
January 6, 2026 at 2:50 PM
There's always that moment when I have a book that's in the final stages of publication prep, and I have another that's 3/4 written, that I fall massively out of love with the one that's about to come out. Can't hold a candle to my brilliant next one! #writing #BookSky 📚💙🖋️ #editing
January 4, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Did my first in-person book sale in November. Loved it. Had my best day ever, sales-wise, including five copies of my cat book, You Say You Want a Revolution. The world needs more cat books. #BookSky #writing 📚💙🖋️
Photo of my books during a book sale last November.
January 4, 2026 at 2:00 AM
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2... The worst is when people start giving the moon powers to birth babies, fill emergency rooms, etc. Affecting tides not good enough for you? Not impressive enough? The tidal interplay between Moon, Earth and Sun is fascinating.
Stop Talking About the Moon
Just look at it.
www.theatlantic.com
January 3, 2026 at 2:57 PM
This is such a great discussion of making a living as a relatively no-name working musician. It's just fascinating, with real dollar figures. www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_BX...
How Much Money I Make as a Professional Musician
YouTube video by Sam Gutman
www.youtube.com
December 30, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Always do a final proofing in Kindle Create's previewer with the font blown up huge. Easiest way to spot typos, missing quotation marks, errant commas, etc. Then I get a print proof. #writing #editing #BookSky 📚💙🖋️
December 29, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Reading Judith Hearne, by #BrianMoore. Compelling. Depressing, but compelling. The level of desperation in the novel is right up there with Of Human Bondage. Very similar books, really. #writing
December 29, 2025 at 1:29 AM
In 2026, I shall publish the following:

Flip: the second novel in the Kennedy-Meyer crime/romance series (written, proofed, doing layout.)

The Short, Funny Pieces: needs no intro (mostly written)

Clearly Now 2: second novella in series about two extremely old men after the apocalypse (started).
December 20, 2025 at 12:06 AM
I look at my #book sales since the Book Fest on Nov. 22 and I wonder why I bother marketing/selling from Jan to Nov. 20. Christmas is everything for book sales. Especially paperbacks. #Write from Jan-Nov and then sell, sell, sell in December.

#writinglife
December 17, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Halfway through my first proofread, on page 130, and I've found about ten items so far, including an incorrect capitalization and an inconsistency. #DraftSeven #editing #WritingLife
December 17, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Heard Bob & Doug McKenzie's 12 Days of Christmas on the radio this morning. Co-host asked host where it came from - was it related to McKenzie hot dogs or something?

I felt very #old.

#SCTV #Moranis #Thomas
December 15, 2025 at 7:46 PM
My first proof-read inevitably turns into a big ol' line-edit. Always around draft six: the proof-read-turns-into-line-edit draft. #writing #editing #publishing
December 15, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Back at Bluesky and the other place after a lengthy stay-away. Had to share this great article about the humanities, which argues, counterculturally, that difficult is good: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Stop Trying to Make the Humanities ‘Relevant’
For humanities departments to continue to matter, they must challenge the modern world rather than accommodate it.
www.theatlantic.com
December 14, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Just blew past thirty thousand words in my latest novel, the second in the Kennedy-Meyer series. Grand fun. Very encouraging. But now, back to work work. I hate how it eats into my fiction-writing time!

#BookSky 📚💙🖋️ #writing #novel #WeAllWish
September 10, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Rick Davies, gone. There's a piece of your misspent youth. Crime of the Century was a brilliant album.
September 8, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Last week was a disaster, #writing -wise. Only managed a few hundred words. Hopefully back in form this week. Of late, I've been hitting over 4000 per week, but I'd settle for a solid 2500 this week.

#WeAllWish
September 8, 2025 at 1:03 PM