Alan Orloff
@alanorloff.bsky.social
Cheesephobic. Regular guy. Also award-winning crime fiction writer.
Wednesday green bug picture.
November 12, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Wednesday green bug picture.
Birthday gift, assembled! A Flamin(le)go! Thanks, Aunt Susan!
November 9, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Birthday gift, assembled! A Flamin(le)go! Thanks, Aunt Susan!
What? I thought this entire place was No Shamokin!
October 30, 2025 at 2:35 PM
What? I thought this entire place was No Shamokin!
Contributor copies! From Crippen & Landru Publishers!
October 15, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Contributor copies! From Crippen & Landru Publishers!
TODAY! Hey, SoCal friends, have some fun at Book Carnival! Eight contributors to HOLLYWOOD KILLS, all in one place, discussing their stories! I hear their dance number is spectacular!
October 11, 2025 at 6:36 PM
TODAY! Hey, SoCal friends, have some fun at Book Carnival! Eight contributors to HOLLYWOOD KILLS, all in one place, discussing their stories! I hear their dance number is spectacular!
Our very first homegrown Meyer lemon!
October 9, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Our very first homegrown Meyer lemon!
I LOVE LIBRARIES! (photo taken at my local branch)
September 27, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I LOVE LIBRARIES! (photo taken at my local branch)
Today's homemade challah.
September 22, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Today's homemade challah.
Don't recall ever seeing these before, so I looked them up. Their name is as cool as they are: basket stinkhorns! (Which would make a great band name!)
September 16, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Don't recall ever seeing these before, so I looked them up. Their name is as cool as they are: basket stinkhorns! (Which would make a great band name!)
Canvas wraps for my most recent two books! (I hang them in my office as motivation.)
September 15, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Canvas wraps for my most recent two books! (I hang them in my office as motivation.)
Sunday lizard photo: "Lizard with Leaf"
September 14, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Sunday lizard photo: "Lizard with Leaf"
More Bouchercon photos!
September 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM
More Bouchercon photos!
The HOLLYWOOD KILLS Bouchercon launch/group signing was a success! Thanks to all the wonderful contributors who participated! From Level Best Books!
September 9, 2025 at 8:10 PM
The HOLLYWOOD KILLS Bouchercon launch/group signing was a success! Thanks to all the wonderful contributors who participated! From Level Best Books!
Me and great actor A Martinez kickin' it in NOLA!
September 6, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Me and great actor A Martinez kickin' it in NOLA!
I hope people love colorful bookmarks, because we’ve got 2500 of ’em!
August 30, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I hope people love colorful bookmarks, because we’ve got 2500 of ’em!
EXCITED that “Won’t You Be Vine?” appears in this week’s edition of Black Cat Weekly (@wildsidepress.bsky.social). Everybody loves nature, and sometimes nature loves you back! Thanks to editor extraordinaire Michael Bracken for accepting this story—I guess it grew on him!
August 24, 2025 at 4:50 PM
EXCITED that “Won’t You Be Vine?” appears in this week’s edition of Black Cat Weekly (@wildsidepress.bsky.social). Everybody loves nature, and sometimes nature loves you back! Thanks to editor extraordinaire Michael Bracken for accepting this story—I guess it grew on him!
Looks like another temperature roller coaster over the next two weeks!
August 13, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Looks like another temperature roller coaster over the next two weeks!
I didn't ask for it. I PRAYED for it!
August 7, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I didn't ask for it. I PRAYED for it!
Happy Book Birthdays to two excellent friends and excellent writers with excellent books in excellent series! Donna Andrews's FOR DUCK’S SAKE and Ellen Crosby’s DEEDS LEFT UNDONE are now out! Congrats, ladies!
August 6, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Happy Book Birthdays to two excellent friends and excellent writers with excellent books in excellent series! Donna Andrews's FOR DUCK’S SAKE and Ellen Crosby’s DEEDS LEFT UNDONE are now out! Congrats, ladies!
My story, “Snitches Local 422,” is in the current issue of Black Cat Weekly, out today. Confidential informants have unionized, and they must band together to catch a killer! From @wildsidepress.bsky.social!
July 27, 2025 at 3:11 PM
My story, “Snitches Local 422,” is in the current issue of Black Cat Weekly, out today. Confidential informants have unionized, and they must band together to catch a killer! From @wildsidepress.bsky.social!
Out Soon! Here’s the cover for the upcoming anthology, DOUBLE CROSSING VAN DINE. I’m honored to be included in this line-up, a veritable Who’s Who in short crime fiction! From Jeffrey Marks at Crippen & Landru Publishers, edited by Donna Andrews, Greg Herren, and Art Taylor.
July 23, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Out Soon! Here’s the cover for the upcoming anthology, DOUBLE CROSSING VAN DINE. I’m honored to be included in this line-up, a veritable Who’s Who in short crime fiction! From Jeffrey Marks at Crippen & Landru Publishers, edited by Donna Andrews, Greg Herren, and Art Taylor.
Chillin' on the Vineyard.
July 17, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Chillin' on the Vineyard.
This pic is a fluke.
July 16, 2025 at 3:10 PM
This pic is a fluke.