Read my degenerate literature
I've got a new(ish) story out this week, which means I must once again calculate how much of my personal dignity to sacrifice in the name of selling books. I don't have the personal charisma or humiliation kink necessary to become an "author-influencer," so my marketing options are limited to this newsletter, what little social media I can tolerate, and stuff like whatever the hell Crad Kilodney was doing.
Anyway:
New Short Story: "Move Fast and Break Things"
There is something wrong with Victor Keane. This makes him the ideal choice to lead a team of mercenaries, hired to recover an oil baron's granddaughter from a tech billionaire's personal cult. But the job gets more complicated when the team encounters Adrian Yates, a kidnapped academic with peculiar insight into the darkness of Victor's own mind. And when things go wrong, Victor must make a choice between the success of the mission and Adrian's life.
My short story "Move Fast and Break Things" originally appeared in the Grendel Press anthology The Devil Who Loves Me, and can now be read as a standalone work!
You can get "Move Fast and Break Things" as an ebook, or read it on Medium. It's also available for all supporters on Ko-fi.
This Week's Links
FBI Uses January 6 Rioter’s Self-Published Amazon Book as Evidence Against Him
Thornsberry also published a book called Dakota Black: or ‘The Dragon,’ which he lists as being coauthored with Moby Dick author Herman Melville, who died in 1891.
Boar’s Head plant linked to deadly outbreak broke food safety rules dozens of times, records show
Between Aug. 1, 2023, and Aug. 2, 2024, inspectors found “heavy discolored meat buildup” and “meat overspray on walls and large pieces of meat on the floor.”
I don't think I've ever read the words "meat buildup" used together like this before.
Do you want to completely ruin the experience of watching Star Trek: Voyager? Watch this.
If the book promotion self-debasement campaign ever gets to the point where I'm doing little TikTok skits about my own characters, just put me down like the dog I am.
-K
