Paul Ryan O'Connor
@paulryanoconnor.bsky.social
Blogger & award-winning crime fiction author. MWA. Noir, pulp, monsters, fiction, jazz, writing, film, comics. Went by @LBoxGraveyard at that other place.
https://www.paulryanoconnor.com/stories
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The World By The Numbers — Paul O'Connor
Numbers, notes, and measurements behind creation of my second story for Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine .
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Measurements, numbers, and notes behind "As You See The World" -- my second story for Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine.
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✨ Announcing our MARCH 2026 Criterion Channel lineup! ✨ bit.ly/4aJwic3
February 18, 2026 at 6:10 PM
✨ Announcing our MARCH 2026 Criterion Channel lineup! ✨ bit.ly/4aJwic3
"Never draw anything you can copy, never copy anything you can trace, never trace anything you can cut out and paste up."
The Wisdom of Wally Wood
#comics
The Wisdom of Wally Wood
#comics
The Wisdom of Wally Wood — Paul O'Connor
Embrace formula.
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February 19, 2026 at 5:47 PM
"Never draw anything you can copy, never copy anything you can trace, never trace anything you can cut out and paste up."
The Wisdom of Wally Wood
#comics
The Wisdom of Wally Wood
#comics
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CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY MONTH AND AFRICAN AMERICAN MYSTERY WRITERS: Gary Phillips, prolific writer of fiction, comic books and an activist, took a writing class from Robert Crais and created p.i. Ivan Monk, who features in his first novel, VIOLENT SPRING (1994), considered a noir classic.
February 7, 2026 at 7:10 PM
CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY MONTH AND AFRICAN AMERICAN MYSTERY WRITERS: Gary Phillips, prolific writer of fiction, comic books and an activist, took a writing class from Robert Crais and created p.i. Ivan Monk, who features in his first novel, VIOLENT SPRING (1994), considered a noir classic.
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Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester, c1934.
February 18, 2026 at 12:16 PM
Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester, c1934.
You throw out the record book when those two face off!
February 18, 2026 at 11:04 PM
You throw out the record book when those two face off!
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Ray Bradbury in the ‘Time Machine’ movie prop, circa 1960
February 16, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Ray Bradbury in the ‘Time Machine’ movie prop, circa 1960
"... if it (a story) isn't ready, it isn't ready. If you can't tell yourself that, the market will."
Whitey By The Numbers
Whitey By The Numbers
Whitey By The Numbers — Paul O'Connor
Story autopsy of a mob meeting gone wrong.
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February 18, 2026 at 5:48 PM
"... if it (a story) isn't ready, it isn't ready. If you can't tell yourself that, the market will."
Whitey By The Numbers
Whitey By The Numbers
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#RandomMovieGIF
Brief Encounter (1945)
Brief Encounter (1945)
February 16, 2026 at 9:38 PM
#RandomMovieGIF
Brief Encounter (1945)
Brief Encounter (1945)
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Christopher Lee in Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968)
January 17, 2026 at 11:11 AM
Christopher Lee in Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968)
You see a tie like that, you start looking to see if someone's cut a tie-shaped hole in the kitchen drapes.
February 17, 2026 at 9:05 PM
You see a tie like that, you start looking to see if someone's cut a tie-shaped hole in the kitchen drapes.
Exploring The Amazon — Paul O'Connor
For better or worse, I claimed my Amazon author page.
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February 17, 2026 at 5:46 PM
"... if it (a story) isn't ready, it isn't ready. If you can't tell yourself that, the market will."
Whitey By The Numbers
Whitey By The Numbers
Whitey By The Numbers — Paul O'Connor
Story autopsy of a mob meeting gone wrong.
www.paulryanoconnor.com
February 17, 2026 at 1:14 AM
"... if it (a story) isn't ready, it isn't ready. If you can't tell yourself that, the market will."
Whitey By The Numbers
Whitey By The Numbers
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"If God could do the things that we can do, he'd be a happy man!”
Peter O’Toole should have won an Oscar for his role as the sinister Kubrickian film director in The Stunt Man. O’Toole is both menacing and paternal, casually risking the lives of his employees while also offering them a chance to achieve eternal glory.
February 16, 2026 at 6:01 PM
"If God could do the things that we can do, he'd be a happy man!”
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Miles Davis, Hackensack, New Jersey
Francis Wolff, 1954
Francis Wolff, 1954
February 8, 2026 at 5:19 PM
Miles Davis, Hackensack, New Jersey
Francis Wolff, 1954
Francis Wolff, 1954
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Dorothy Dandridge photographed by Edward Clark for Life magazine, 1953
February 13, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Dorothy Dandridge photographed by Edward Clark for Life magazine, 1953
Happy Valentines Day!
February 15, 2026 at 5:47 AM
Happy Valentines Day!
You pick out your best pearls, put on a nice dress, go out for a night on the town and BAM! A flying saucer wrecks everything. Again.
February 1958 Fantastic Universe magazine cover art by Virgil Finlay.
February 15, 2026 at 1:07 AM
You pick out your best pearls, put on a nice dress, go out for a night on the town and BAM! A flying saucer wrecks everything. Again.
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ross diner, quechee, vermont, 1995
February 9, 2026 at 8:36 PM
ross diner, quechee, vermont, 1995
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CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY MONTH & AFRICAN AMERICAN MYSTERY WRITERS: Walter Mosely, whose first Easy Rawlins book, DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS was published in 1990, has become one of the seminal voices in American Crime fiction, writing with endless originality and heart.
February 3, 2026 at 7:21 PM
CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY MONTH & AFRICAN AMERICAN MYSTERY WRITERS: Walter Mosely, whose first Easy Rawlins book, DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS was published in 1990, has become one of the seminal voices in American Crime fiction, writing with endless originality and heart.
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