William Bryan Smith
@williambryansmith.bsky.social
Novelist/Writer. MFA in creative writing, Bennington College.
Author of Free Range Men (Mint Hill Books) and We Are Smoke (Carmelite Books)
https://www.williambryansmith.com/
Author of Free Range Men (Mint Hill Books) and We Are Smoke (Carmelite Books)
https://www.williambryansmith.com/
“Defectors could be your next-door neighbor. The guy who cuts the meat at your local supermarket, or drives the truck that delivers your Amazon packages.”
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Spies in Small Towns
The NROC A highly valued intelligence asset of the CIA is “burned.” Translated from Intelligence-speak, a human who has betrayed their country, either due to ideological differences or financial ga…
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July 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
“Defectors could be your next-door neighbor. The guy who cuts the meat at your local supermarket, or drives the truck that delivers your Amazon packages.”
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“Heaven was a beach and a pinecone.” Du côté de la côte (1958) dir. Agnès Varda
May 4, 2025 at 2:52 PM
“Heaven was a beach and a pinecone.” Du côté de la côte (1958) dir. Agnès Varda
When revising your work, Patricia Highsmith urged writers to “be as ruthless as if you were throwing excess baggage, even fuel, out of an overloaded airplane.”
April 7, 2025 at 9:39 PM
When revising your work, Patricia Highsmith urged writers to “be as ruthless as if you were throwing excess baggage, even fuel, out of an overloaded airplane.”
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I slept in, #5amwritersclub But I also wrote a short blog for my #writer folks. Today is all about creativity and flow.
On the simplicity of writing & week 39 of 52 www.jenknox.net/p/on-the-sim...
On the simplicity of writing & week 39 of 52 www.jenknox.net/p/on-the-sim...
On the simplicity of writing & week 39 of 52
The notepad doesn't have to be yellow (or even a notepad).
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February 8, 2025 at 1:11 PM
I slept in, #5amwritersclub But I also wrote a short blog for my #writer folks. Today is all about creativity and flow.
On the simplicity of writing & week 39 of 52 www.jenknox.net/p/on-the-sim...
On the simplicity of writing & week 39 of 52 www.jenknox.net/p/on-the-sim...
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On a few hundred ducks & week 38 of 52 #aytl www.jenknox.net/p/on-a-few-h...
On a few hundred ducks & week 38 of 52
We’re all awkward at times. Let’s embrace it.
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February 1, 2025 at 11:58 AM
On a few hundred ducks & week 38 of 52 #aytl www.jenknox.net/p/on-a-few-h...
The days are getting longer… ☀️❄️⛄️🧤🧣
December 22, 2024 at 8:59 PM
The days are getting longer… ☀️❄️⛄️🧤🧣
“My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.”
Robert Frost—“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”
#WinterSolstice
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.”
Robert Frost—“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”
#WinterSolstice
December 21, 2024 at 4:26 PM
“My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.”
Robert Frost—“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”
#WinterSolstice
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.”
Robert Frost—“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”
#WinterSolstice
“Well, it seems that the real reality—the microreality, that which underlies all our solid, good, common-sense reality—is made up, as we have just witnessed, of a vast empty space filled with oscillating fields!” —Itzhak Bentov, Stalking the Wild Pendulum
December 21, 2024 at 3:22 AM
“Well, it seems that the real reality—the microreality, that which underlies all our solid, good, common-sense reality—is made up, as we have just witnessed, of a vast empty space filled with oscillating fields!” —Itzhak Bentov, Stalking the Wild Pendulum
My novel, We Are Smoke, is still free for Kindle for the next 24 hours. Get your copy here: We Are Smoke a.co/d/4LJUTzK
December 13, 2024 at 1:07 AM
My novel, We Are Smoke, is still free for Kindle for the next 24 hours. Get your copy here: We Are Smoke a.co/d/4LJUTzK
Friends, my novel, We Are Smoke, is free to download on Amazon Kindle, until 14 December 2024. It is a psychological puzzler set in Italy during the Christmas season. You can find it here: a.co/d/2o2NNVR
December 11, 2024 at 6:50 PM
Friends, my novel, We Are Smoke, is free to download on Amazon Kindle, until 14 December 2024. It is a psychological puzzler set in Italy during the Christmas season. You can find it here: a.co/d/2o2NNVR
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Friends, my novel, We Are Smoke, is free to download on Amazon Kindle, all this week. It is a psychological puzzler set in Italy during the Christmas season. You can find it here: a.co/d/2o2NNVR
December 9, 2024 at 1:03 PM
Friends, my novel, We Are Smoke, is free to download on Amazon Kindle, all this week. It is a psychological puzzler set in Italy during the Christmas season. You can find it here: a.co/d/2o2NNVR
Friends, my novel, We Are Smoke, is free to download on Amazon Kindle, all this week. It is a psychological puzzler set in Italy during the Christmas season. You can find it here: a.co/d/2o2NNVR
December 9, 2024 at 1:03 PM
Friends, my novel, We Are Smoke, is free to download on Amazon Kindle, all this week. It is a psychological puzzler set in Italy during the Christmas season. You can find it here: a.co/d/2o2NNVR
Friends, my novel, We Are Smoke, is free to download on Amazon Kindle, all this week. It is a psychological puzzler set in Italy during the Christmas season. You can find it here: a.co/d/2o2NNVR
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December 9, 2024 at 1:00 PM
Friends, my novel, We Are Smoke, is free to download on Amazon Kindle, all this week. It is a psychological puzzler set in Italy during the Christmas season. You can find it here: a.co/d/2o2NNVR
Happy holidays from the anthracite regions of Pennsylvania where there will be no Christmas snake this year…
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This Year’s Christmas Snake Has Been Cancelled
“Well, Shamokinites, it’s that time of the year again! I know we all look forward to that familiar yuletide experience of sweat, fear, and panic when an eastern massasauga is released into a largely…
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December 7, 2024 at 4:24 PM
Happy holidays from the anthracite regions of Pennsylvania where there will be no Christmas snake this year…
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For the arrival of the holiday season, I always like to watch “My Night at Maud’s” which is set primarily on 22 December in Clermont, Fr. I was delighted to learn Le Suffren Bar is still around…
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Discover the history of the Suffren in Clermont-Ferrand
A historic bar-brasserie in the heart of the town center, created in the late 60s, it has successfully adapted to the changing times!
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November 29, 2024 at 11:34 PM
For the arrival of the holiday season, I always like to watch “My Night at Maud’s” which is set primarily on 22 December in Clermont, Fr. I was delighted to learn Le Suffren Bar is still around…
lesuffren.com/en/about-us/
lesuffren.com/en/about-us/
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How do you write about sex—seriously? Irreverently? Not at all?
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#writerslife #WritingCommunity
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#writerslife #WritingCommunity
November 27, 2024 at 4:35 PM
How do you write about sex—seriously? Irreverently? Not at all?
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#writerslife #WritingCommunity
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#writerslife #WritingCommunity
“What if we didn’t technically kill our turkeys, but we instead ‘encouraged’ the turkeys to do it themselves?”
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At Worthy Brothers Turkeys, Our Turkeys Are Never Slaughtered; That’s Our Promise To You
What if we didn’t technically kill our turkeys, but we instead “encouraged” the turkeys to do it themselves?
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November 27, 2024 at 2:45 PM
“What if we didn’t technically kill our turkeys, but we instead ‘encouraged’ the turkeys to do it themselves?”
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To celebrate the first anniversary of Murder in the Lady Chapel the kindle edition is 99p for one week. Hannah Weybridge joins the church choir to investigate ... amzn.to/48yhz1P
November 21, 2024 at 8:39 AM
To celebrate the first anniversary of Murder in the Lady Chapel the kindle edition is 99p for one week. Hannah Weybridge joins the church choir to investigate ... amzn.to/48yhz1P
“When you write crime fiction, you can really get caught up in plot and trying to make things work, and I always need to be remembered that I have to follow my characters and see where they take me when I start writing.” -Megan Abbott
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The Backlist: Megan Abbott on Noir, Fatalism, and Denis Johnson’s ‘Angels’
From the time I began this column, nearly two years ago, I’ve been looking forward to interviewing Megan Abbott. I first became aware of her work in 2016, when I read The Fever over the course of a…
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November 27, 2024 at 12:39 PM
“When you write crime fiction, you can really get caught up in plot and trying to make things work, and I always need to be remembered that I have to follow my characters and see where they take me when I start writing.” -Megan Abbott
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“In noir, everyone is fallen, and right and wrong are not clearly defined and maybe not even attainable.” -Megan Abbott
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The 5 Best Hardboiled Detective Novels
Explore the world of hardboiled detective novels, filled with tough and clever private investigators who stop at nothing to solve the case.
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November 24, 2024 at 3:34 PM
“In noir, everyone is fallen, and right and wrong are not clearly defined and maybe not even attainable.” -Megan Abbott
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“More than any of the other subgenres, the hardboiled requires a delicate balancing act.”
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Writing the Hardboiled: Keep It Edgy
I think most critics of crime fiction would argue that the hardboiled offers the most potential for "literary" merit. Those whose names are spoken with the most reverence (e.g., Michael Connelly, Andr...
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November 20, 2024 at 11:50 PM
“More than any of the other subgenres, the hardboiled requires a delicate balancing act.”
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