Ilyn Welch
@ilynwelch.bsky.social
Debut book SIGNS OF PAIN/Shotgun Honey. BAD MAKES BAD slices April 2024📚 https://shotgunhoney.com/books/bad-makes-bad/
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Taiwanese ambassador to Finland performs with his metal band at Taiwan-Finland cultural event! 🤘✊️
That's what I call great ambassador
That's what I call great ambassador
November 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Taiwanese ambassador to Finland performs with his metal band at Taiwan-Finland cultural event! 🤘✊️
That's what I call great ambassador
That's what I call great ambassador
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Every year I curate some reviews for giftable books, usually those you won't think to look for...pretty objects you don't know exist...nice books for kids, be they siblings, grands, or just regular friend-offspring.
Join me for #Booksgiving here:
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Join me for #Booksgiving here:
expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2025/11/kick...
Kicking off #Booksgiving for 2025
I keep doing this in celebration of the joy that books, stories, and reading bring me all 365 days of the year. You'll see if you follow th...
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November 28, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Every year I curate some reviews for giftable books, usually those you won't think to look for...pretty objects you don't know exist...nice books for kids, be they siblings, grands, or just regular friend-offspring.
Join me for #Booksgiving here:
expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2025/11/kick...
Join me for #Booksgiving here:
expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2025/11/kick...
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This month in STONE"S THROW: In wartime Saigon, a missionary working in the red light district tries to save the souls of those around her, but soon wonders if her own salvation is what's needed. A gut punch of a story by AT Kessler! Read it today: bit.ly/4nCG7wX
November 27, 2025 at 10:06 PM
This month in STONE"S THROW: In wartime Saigon, a missionary working in the red light district tries to save the souls of those around her, but soon wonders if her own salvation is what's needed. A gut punch of a story by AT Kessler! Read it today: bit.ly/4nCG7wX
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If Los Angeles had done something about how Steven Taylor was using empty RSO buildings to grow his real estate empire...
www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/...
...maybe elected officials wouldn't be tied up in what sure looks like a massive fraud on the taxpayers. laist.com/news/secreti...
www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/...
...maybe elected officials wouldn't be tied up in what sure looks like a massive fraud on the taxpayers. laist.com/news/secreti...
Steven Taylor May be the Most Despicable Landlord in Los Angeles
REAL ESTATE PREDATORS-Malcolm X famously said, “You show me a capitalist, I’ll show you a bloodsucker.” But Steven Taylor is truly something special.
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November 27, 2025 at 3:23 AM
If Los Angeles had done something about how Steven Taylor was using empty RSO buildings to grow his real estate empire...
www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/...
...maybe elected officials wouldn't be tied up in what sure looks like a massive fraud on the taxpayers. laist.com/news/secreti...
www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/...
...maybe elected officials wouldn't be tied up in what sure looks like a massive fraud on the taxpayers. laist.com/news/secreti...
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CELEBRATION COCKTAILS: Outstanding Batch Cocktails and Individual Drinks for Holidays, Parties, Birthdays, Weddings, and Other Festive Occasions by Rhiannon Lee via @quartobooksuk.bsky.social. An education in classy drinking: #Booksky
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CELEBRATION COCKTAILS: Outstanding Batch Cocktails and Individual Drinks for Holidays, Parties, Birthdays, Weddings, and Other Festive Occasions
CELEBRATION COCKTAILS: Outstanding Batch Cocktails and Individual Drinks for Holidays, Parties, Birthdays, Weddings, and Other Festive Occ...
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November 26, 2025 at 1:42 PM
CELEBRATION COCKTAILS: Outstanding Batch Cocktails and Individual Drinks for Holidays, Parties, Birthdays, Weddings, and Other Festive Occasions by Rhiannon Lee via @quartobooksuk.bsky.social. An education in classy drinking: #Booksky
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WILD INSTINCT by T. Jefferson Parker
A darn good story that (I hope!) starts a series, from @stmartinspress.bsky.social / Minotaur Books. #booksky
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A darn good story that (I hope!) starts a series, from @stmartinspress.bsky.social / Minotaur Books. #booksky
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WILD INSTINCT, good story that (I hope!) starts a series
WILD INSTINCT T. JEFFERSON PARKER Minotaur Books ( non-affiliate Bookshop.org link) $14.99 ebook, available now Rating: 4* of five ...
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November 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
WILD INSTINCT by T. Jefferson Parker
A darn good story that (I hope!) starts a series, from @stmartinspress.bsky.social / Minotaur Books. #booksky
expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2025/11/wild...
A darn good story that (I hope!) starts a series, from @stmartinspress.bsky.social / Minotaur Books. #booksky
expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2025/11/wild...
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RIP to gravitas incarnate. 😢🫡
November 23, 2025 at 11:59 PM
RIP to gravitas incarnate. 😢🫡
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Micro-fiction "Oracle" by Nolan Knight
“And you emerged? Someplace else. Not L.A.? No. Where? Dunno—magnolias sprouting gumdrops, a sherbet sky—pterodactyls overhead.”
www.bloodhoneylit.com/fiction/oracle
“And you emerged? Someplace else. Not L.A.? No. Where? Dunno—magnolias sprouting gumdrops, a sherbet sky—pterodactyls overhead.”
www.bloodhoneylit.com/fiction/oracle
oracle — Blood+Honey
by Nolan Knight “And you emerged? Someplace else. Not L.A.? No. Where? Dunno—magnolias sprouting gumdrops, a sherbet sky—pterodactyls overhead.”
www.bloodhoneylit.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Micro-fiction "Oracle" by Nolan Knight
“And you emerged? Someplace else. Not L.A.? No. Where? Dunno—magnolias sprouting gumdrops, a sherbet sky—pterodactyls overhead.”
www.bloodhoneylit.com/fiction/oracle
“And you emerged? Someplace else. Not L.A.? No. Where? Dunno—magnolias sprouting gumdrops, a sherbet sky—pterodactyls overhead.”
www.bloodhoneylit.com/fiction/oracle
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November 21, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Hey folks, just a reminder that you can still get signed/personalized copies of any of my books, including COFFIN MOON, from Broadway Books in Portland, OR! Thanks so much!
broadwaybooks.net/book/9780593...
broadwaybooks.net/book/9780593...
November 19, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Hey folks, just a reminder that you can still get signed/personalized copies of any of my books, including COFFIN MOON, from Broadway Books in Portland, OR! Thanks so much!
broadwaybooks.net/book/9780593...
broadwaybooks.net/book/9780593...
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This World of Vile Wonder: Horror Tales of the Scientific Revolution is on sale this week. Ebook is 99 cents! ⬇️
November 17, 2025 at 11:12 AM
This World of Vile Wonder: Horror Tales of the Scientific Revolution is on sale this week. Ebook is 99 cents! ⬇️
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In lieu of a complex graphic assaulting your eyeballs with all 18 stories I've had published this year, please consider this one if you're reading for awards: "The Power Company Detective," eligible in the short story category. Weird horror with no easy answers.
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“The Power Company Detective” by Joe Koch - Seize The Press
The gun doesn’t remember you. The man you were was not important, nothing more than another in a series of shifting targets for the shouting hole of its small black mouth. Furthermore, you may have be...
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November 13, 2025 at 4:42 PM
In lieu of a complex graphic assaulting your eyeballs with all 18 stories I've had published this year, please consider this one if you're reading for awards: "The Power Company Detective," eligible in the short story category. Weird horror with no easy answers.
18.168.63.88/2025/03/29/t...
18.168.63.88/2025/03/29/t...
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I joined Erik D’Souza on the CWC podcast yesterday to talk about The Broken Detective.
Discussed:
-characters with unlikeable traits
-waiting for publication
-Winnipeg
-next writing projects
Find it wherever you listened to podcasts.
#noir #MustRead #thebrokendetective
Discussed:
-characters with unlikeable traits
-waiting for publication
-Winnipeg
-next writing projects
Find it wherever you listened to podcasts.
#noir #MustRead #thebrokendetective
November 13, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I joined Erik D’Souza on the CWC podcast yesterday to talk about The Broken Detective.
Discussed:
-characters with unlikeable traits
-waiting for publication
-Winnipeg
-next writing projects
Find it wherever you listened to podcasts.
#noir #MustRead #thebrokendetective
Discussed:
-characters with unlikeable traits
-waiting for publication
-Winnipeg
-next writing projects
Find it wherever you listened to podcasts.
#noir #MustRead #thebrokendetective
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We're thrilled to announce the Pegasus Poetry Book Prize, recognizing a US poet aged 40 or older for their first or second poetry collection. In addition to publication by Graywolf, the awardee will receive $10,000 from the Poetry Foundation.
www.poetryfoundation.org/awards/poetr...
www.poetryfoundation.org/awards/poetr...
November 12, 2025 at 10:00 PM
We're thrilled to announce the Pegasus Poetry Book Prize, recognizing a US poet aged 40 or older for their first or second poetry collection. In addition to publication by Graywolf, the awardee will receive $10,000 from the Poetry Foundation.
www.poetryfoundation.org/awards/poetr...
www.poetryfoundation.org/awards/poetr...
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If you’re flying out of or into San Diego, you can grab a copy of On Fire and Under Water in Terminal 2!
November 11, 2025 at 2:16 PM
If you’re flying out of or into San Diego, you can grab a copy of On Fire and Under Water in Terminal 2!
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More KOA news
If you're so inclined, you can vote for KOA as your choice for thriller of the year
If you're so inclined, you can vote for KOA as your choice for thriller of the year
November 11, 2025 at 3:39 PM
More KOA news
If you're so inclined, you can vote for KOA as your choice for thriller of the year
If you're so inclined, you can vote for KOA as your choice for thriller of the year
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KING OF ASHES has been noted as one of Kirkus favorite fiction books of the year
November 11, 2025 at 2:14 PM
KING OF ASHES has been noted as one of Kirkus favorite fiction books of the year
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Stephenson Cree, last store of a 92-year Riverside clothing dynasty, to close. "This is just an institution," one customer says of the independent shop as its fourth generation prepares to retire. I tell its story in my Sunday column. www.pressenterprise.com/2025/11/09/s...
Stephenson Cree, last store of a 92-year Riverside dynasty, to close
“This is just an institution,” customer says as the Cree family prepares to close its last shop. Columnist David Allen pays his respects.
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November 9, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Stephenson Cree, last store of a 92-year Riverside clothing dynasty, to close. "This is just an institution," one customer says of the independent shop as its fourth generation prepares to retire. I tell its story in my Sunday column. www.pressenterprise.com/2025/11/09/s...
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It's always private equity. www.thebanner.com/community/ho...
November 8, 2025 at 2:34 PM
It's always private equity. www.thebanner.com/community/ho...
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SUBS OPEN NOW THRU NOV. 22! We want stories that detail life at the bottom or at the margins of human society. Make it sad. Make it dark. Make it the tiniest bit hopeful. More info here: bit.ly/4onmEBw
November 6, 2025 at 1:40 PM
SUBS OPEN NOW THRU NOV. 22! We want stories that detail life at the bottom or at the margins of human society. Make it sad. Make it dark. Make it the tiniest bit hopeful. More info here: bit.ly/4onmEBw
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THE LONG LOW WHISTLE by @laurelhightower.bsky.social, the seventh installment in our Killer VHS Series, is out today!
The Long Low Whistle received a starred Library Journal review and was called "the best in the series so far" by Capes and Tights.
Available in paperback and eBook everywhere!
The Long Low Whistle received a starred Library Journal review and was called "the best in the series so far" by Capes and Tights.
Available in paperback and eBook everywhere!
November 4, 2025 at 3:03 PM
THE LONG LOW WHISTLE by @laurelhightower.bsky.social, the seventh installment in our Killer VHS Series, is out today!
The Long Low Whistle received a starred Library Journal review and was called "the best in the series so far" by Capes and Tights.
Available in paperback and eBook everywhere!
The Long Low Whistle received a starred Library Journal review and was called "the best in the series so far" by Capes and Tights.
Available in paperback and eBook everywhere!
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Stoked that readers are still picking up HARD MOUNTAIN CLAY and digging the book. And I have something new coming from @shotgunhoney.com (soonish)!
November 4, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Stoked that readers are still picking up HARD MOUNTAIN CLAY and digging the book. And I have something new coming from @shotgunhoney.com (soonish)!
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"The Dreaming Eye of a Dead Astronomer" by Coy Hall, a short story in the anthology, THIS WORLD OF VILE WONDER. A must-read for Hall fans: it features his occult investigator Dorin Toth. The sentence at the end of the hero-meets-the-nasty-locals-for-the-1st time scene made me gasp with glee.*****
This World of Vile Wonder: Horror Tales of the Scientific Revolution
This World of Vile Wonder: Horror Tales of the Scientific Revolution [Hall, Coy, Ellis, Stephanie, Thor, J.M., Rivera, Chey, Reynolds, Josh, Dowden, Jack, Proctor, M.E., Ostopovich, Jennifer, Shank, S.J.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. This World of Vile Wonder: Horror Tales of the Scientific Revolution
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October 28, 2025 at 8:47 PM
"The Dreaming Eye of a Dead Astronomer" by Coy Hall, a short story in the anthology, THIS WORLD OF VILE WONDER. A must-read for Hall fans: it features his occult investigator Dorin Toth. The sentence at the end of the hero-meets-the-nasty-locals-for-the-1st time scene made me gasp with glee.*****