Pope's dead, buy my book
Overall, it was very inconsiderate of Pope Francis to die right before the release date of my new book. This is the kind of thing PR teams' nightmares are made of.
New Novella: "Moriarty & Moran Contribute to Community Welfare"
The Barrie Children's Hospital is holding its annual fundraising gala, and as usual all of Britain's brightest luminaries are invited. This year, however, there are two extra guests: former SAS operator Sebastian Moran and his criminal partner, Jay Moriarty.
Powers unknown intend to use the gala as cover to sell a computer drive full of valuable data. Moriarty and Moran intend to steal that drive for themselves. But both operations are rudely interrupted when the gala is stormed by a crew of armed criminals — and they also want the drive.
What was once a simple theft is now a race to the prize ... and may soon become a fight for survival.
"Moriarty & Moran Contribute to Community Welfare" is the seventh story in my series The Casefile of Jay Moriarty, a modern-day queer take on the iconic Sherlock Holmes villain, his partner Sebastian Moran, and the various crimes they commit together.
This one includes multiple instances of the phrase "priest hole."
You can get "Moriarty & Moran Contribute to Community Welfare" most places ebooks are sold, or by clicking here.
This Week's Links
For more than two decades, I’ve been what some might call a hoarder but what I’ve more affectionately dubbed a “digital packrat.” Which is to say I mostly avoid streaming services, I don’t trust any company or cloud with my digital media, and I store everything as files on devices that I physically control. My mp3 collection has been going strong since the Limewire days, I keep high-quality rips of all my movies on a local media server, and my preferred reading device holds a large collection of DRM-free ebooks and PDFs—everything from esoteric philosophy texts and scientific journals to scans of lesbian lifestyle magazines from the 1980s.
Open source devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries
According to a comprehensive recent report from LibreNews, some open source projects now see as much as 97 percent of their traffic originating from AI companies' bots, dramatically increasing bandwidth costs, service instability, and burdening already stretched-thin maintainers.
A daily murder mystery puzzle game.
I process stress through writing, so you may notice a certain, uh ... velocity to my writing output in the coming months.
-K
