Chris McGinley
@mcginley.bsky.social
Author: ONCE THESE HILLS and COAL BLACK.
https://www.chris-mcginley.com/ Writer at Crimereads, Mystery Tribune, Reckon Review, etc.
https://www.chris-mcginley.com/ Writer at Crimereads, Mystery Tribune, Reckon Review, etc.
About to commence the last in the Dreiser trilogy. Who’s a fan?
August 26, 2025 at 1:28 PM
About to commence the last in the Dreiser trilogy. Who’s a fan?
Incredibly excited about this!
February 27, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Incredibly excited about this!
Stoked to appear on @jeffcircle.bsky.social’s excellent The Writer’s Dossier!
The Dossier is live with Chris McGinley, author of ONCE THESE HILLS.
In this 5-question interview, @mcginley.bsky.social covers Kentucky, the university library, and more. It was a lot of fun getting to know Chris!
thewritersdossier.com | chris-mcginley.com
In this 5-question interview, @mcginley.bsky.social covers Kentucky, the university library, and more. It was a lot of fun getting to know Chris!
thewritersdossier.com | chris-mcginley.com
February 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Stoked to appear on @jeffcircle.bsky.social’s excellent The Writer’s Dossier!
Excellent conversation with @browneallover.bsky.social !
February 8, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Excellent conversation with @browneallover.bsky.social !
Check THIS out, Lexingtonians!
Back in Lexington one week from today with great Kentucky author Chris McGinley at Apollo Pizza talking about They All Fall the Same.
If I haven’t seen you yet, I’d love to see you then.
If I haven’t seen you yet, I’d love to see you then.
January 31, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Check THIS out, Lexingtonians!
Check out my @crimereads.bsky.social interview with novelist and press mate Rick Childers.
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Rick Childers on Writing Rural Noir With a Sense of Love
Not long ago I shared a table at the Kentucky Book Festival with Appalachian novelist Rick Childers, author of the excellent Turkeyfoot (Shotgun Honey Books, 2024.) At such events, it’s always goo…
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January 23, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Check out my @crimereads.bsky.social interview with novelist and press mate Rick Childers.
@shotgunhoney.com
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Stoked about this event!
January 21, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Stoked about this event!
My review of @browneallover.bsky.social ’s fine new novel in Mystery Tribune.
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"They All Fall the Same" Represents The Height of The Rural Noir
Crime writer Chris McGinley takes a close look at the rural noir novel They All Fall the Same by Wes Browne.
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January 17, 2025 at 10:49 PM
My review of @browneallover.bsky.social ’s fine new novel in Mystery Tribune.
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Schatzberg is king.
January 16, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Schatzberg is king.
Enormous thanks to Joseph Beth Booksellers for supporting my book. I found over 20 copies there, conspicuously placed in FICTION and LOCAL. I signed 'em all. Go getcha one! Much love, JB.
January 10, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Enormous thanks to Joseph Beth Booksellers for supporting my book. I found over 20 copies there, conspicuously placed in FICTION and LOCAL. I signed 'em all. Go getcha one! Much love, JB.
Delighted to attend @browneallover.bsky.social ’s
book launch tonight. Read THEY ALL FALL THE SAME in two sittings. Look for my forthcoming review. A fantastic page turner. Thanks to host Joseph Beth and Crystal Wilkinson. Other notables there, too! See photos.
book launch tonight. Read THEY ALL FALL THE SAME in two sittings. Look for my forthcoming review. A fantastic page turner. Thanks to host Joseph Beth and Crystal Wilkinson. Other notables there, too! See photos.
January 10, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Delighted to attend @browneallover.bsky.social ’s
book launch tonight. Read THEY ALL FALL THE SAME in two sittings. Look for my forthcoming review. A fantastic page turner. Thanks to host Joseph Beth and Crystal Wilkinson. Other notables there, too! See photos.
book launch tonight. Read THEY ALL FALL THE SAME in two sittings. Look for my forthcoming review. A fantastic page turner. Thanks to host Joseph Beth and Crystal Wilkinson. Other notables there, too! See photos.
KAINTUCK!
Thanks @joshaboldt.bsky.social
Thanks @joshaboldt.bsky.social
So many good books from friends + fellow Kentucky authors. In Lexington’s Joseph Beth Bookstore I spotted @wesblake.bsky.social @gwenda.bsky.social @silashouse.bsky.social @crystalwilki.bsky.social @mcginley.bsky.social @browneallover.bsky.social to name a few. #kentucky #shoplocal #bookstore #books
December 27, 2024 at 1:22 AM
KAINTUCK!
Thanks @joshaboldt.bsky.social
Thanks @joshaboldt.bsky.social
Intrigued by these two. Have read Adams’ EDUCATION OF H.A. , but not DEMOCRACY. Never read RH. Anyone have opinions?
December 12, 2024 at 2:00 AM
Intrigued by these two. Have read Adams’ EDUCATION OF H.A. , but not DEMOCRACY. Never read RH. Anyone have opinions?
So cool to be invited to Berea College and to speak at their Loyal Jones Appalachia Center about some “forgotten titles” of App. literature. Thanks especially to my host: novelist, press mate and friend, Rick Childers. @shotgunhoney.com
December 6, 2024 at 1:52 AM
So cool to be invited to Berea College and to speak at their Loyal Jones Appalachia Center about some “forgotten titles” of App. literature. Thanks especially to my host: novelist, press mate and friend, Rick Childers. @shotgunhoney.com
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December 3, 2024 at 3:37 PM
Loved this story of Florida pioneer life, equal parts potboiler and ode to the natural world . . . a place fast slipping away to development. (Cool edition with an annotated list of “cracker westerns” and other Florida literary confections.)
December 4, 2024 at 2:55 AM
Loved this story of Florida pioneer life, equal parts potboiler and ode to the natural world . . . a place fast slipping away to development. (Cool edition with an annotated list of “cracker westerns” and other Florida literary confections.)
Delighted to appear on the excellent podcast CRIME TIME FM, in which I talk about my novel and Appalachian literature, among other things. Link in comments.
December 3, 2024 at 3:37 PM
Delighted to appear on the excellent podcast CRIME TIME FM, in which I talk about my novel and Appalachian literature, among other things. Link in comments.
Attention Everyone: The Kirkus reviewer warns us that SOUTH END SYNDICATE: HOW I TOOK OVER THE GENOVESE SPRINGFIELD CREW, is “colorful if unedifying.” Too bad. It was my earnest desire to improve myself— to reach new moral heights—in reading mob boss Anthony Arillotta’s memoir.😂
December 2, 2024 at 2:12 AM
Attention Everyone: The Kirkus reviewer warns us that SOUTH END SYNDICATE: HOW I TOOK OVER THE GENOVESE SPRINGFIELD CREW, is “colorful if unedifying.” Too bad. It was my earnest desire to improve myself— to reach new moral heights—in reading mob boss Anthony Arillotta’s memoir.😂
Just revisited I. Lerner’s MURDER BY CONTRACT (1958) which I first saw in college in a class called Gangster Film. (Not joking). Highly philosophical confection on life, work, money, morality. Not for everyone. Plot secondary to “higher laws,” as Thoreau would say. 😂
November 30, 2024 at 3:48 PM
Just revisited I. Lerner’s MURDER BY CONTRACT (1958) which I first saw in college in a class called Gangster Film. (Not joking). Highly philosophical confection on life, work, money, morality. Not for everyone. Plot secondary to “higher laws,” as Thoreau would say. 😂
Time for a re-read. Who’s a fan?
November 30, 2024 at 2:59 AM
Time for a re-read. Who’s a fan?
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@bamawriter.bsky.social
@mcginley.bsky.social
and more!
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@russellwjohnson.bsky.social
@bamawriter.bsky.social
@mcginley.bsky.social
and more!
November 29, 2024 at 11:00 PM
Hey crime writers. Trust me when I say that you can learn all kindsa stuff about plotting your 21st century novel from this nineteenth-century woman. A study in creating tension. Just gettin' my breath back. Shew.
November 29, 2024 at 8:31 PM
Hey crime writers. Trust me when I say that you can learn all kindsa stuff about plotting your 21st century novel from this nineteenth-century woman. A study in creating tension. Just gettin' my breath back. Shew.