New book (and last gasp of the Spooky Sale)
The thing about publishing as frequently as I do is that you eventually run out of ways to say "I've written a new thing, please check it out."
Anyway: I've written a new thing, please check it out.
New Novelette: "Sebastian Moran Inflicts Six Traumatic Brain Injuries"
When an art heist goes wrong, Jay Moriarty calls for help — and in the middle of the night, Sebastian Moran heads out into the streets of London to find him. But he's not the only one hunting Moriarty, and it's not long before Moran's search leads him into a clash with a rogue mercenary company. To save his partner, Moran will have to take any help he can get ... even from an untrustworthy cat burglar named John Clay.
"Sebastian Moran Inflicts Six Traumatic Brain Injuries" is the fifth story in my series The Casefile of Jay Moriarty, a modern-day queer romance take on the iconic Sherlock Holmes villain, his partner Sebastian Moran, and the various crimes they commit together.
You can get "Sebastian Moran Inflicts Six Traumatic Brain Injuries" most places ebooks are sold, or by clicking here.
Spooky Season Sale on itch.io
It's the last week of October, which means it's the last week you can get all my horror/dark fantasy books on sale over at my itch.io store! "The Scent of Blood," "Possession," and "Move Fast and Break Things" are each 25% off, or you can get all three in a bundle for $1.50 USD. Sale prices are valid until end of day October 31.
This Week's Links
Tinkerers Are Taking Old Redbox Kiosks Home and Reverse Engineering Them
The code that runs Redbox DVD rental machines has been dumped online, and, in the wake of the company’s bankruptcy, a community of tinkerers and reverse engineers are probing the operating system to learn how it works. Naturally, one of the first things people did was make one of the machines run Doom.
The hysterical tinfoil-hat crowd urges you to turn off your phone whenever you’re going to discuss something private—like your political opinions, religious beliefs, or medical conditions—as if the phone is somehow going to “hear” them and tech companies will use that info against you. In reality, they already know all those things because they know what news sources you read, the contents of your emails, what WebMD pages you’ve visited, and how long you’ve spent at which church, synagogue, mosque, or ethical humanist center. So don’t even worry about it.
It's Nearing Midnight, Christmas, and the End of October
Check out the second item for the story of how my dad ended up as a cameo appearance in some other family's Hallmark Christmas movie.
A friend whose opinion I respect recently told me my prose is at its most poetic when my characters are at their most horny. I'm gonna have to think on that one.
-K
