It's so great to see a Presidential candidate actually root FOR our great American athletes in the Olympics the way Kamala Harris is doing in Las Vegas. 🇺🇲

Thrilling news for The Murder Plague: It is a finalist for the FloridaWriters Royal Palm Literary Awards for the blended-genre category! This news comes just a week after it won Silver in the Florida Authors literary awards. Haven't read it yet? Really?

Sometimes I get sad assuming that Ron DeSantis probably can’t bring himself to watch the The Olympic Games, not even the ceremonies. I wish I could urge @RonDesantis to just tune in and experience for himself. Then I recall that joy, beauty, and humanity really aren’t his things.

Imagine you are a record producer. You have a great new singer and a great song—never mind the genre. You need to pull together a band for the recording. You could get ANY of these guitarists in their primes, or you could get Tommy Tedesco in his. Whom do you hire?

.FLORIDA’s Ben Sasse is leaving and he will have to leave town, because anywhere he goes in Gainesville, people will look at him as if he’s a thief.

A horror fest of B&W flicks, notably Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Mary Toner left with another guy she bumped into in the lobby between features. 😒

If you're in the Orlando area and looking for something cool to do Saturday night—and who isn't?—head over to the Park Avenue entertainment district in Winter Park where I'm signing #TheMurderPlague at Writer’s Block Bookstore. 4-7 p.m. Support #indiewriters. Support #indiebookstores.

I live for hecklers.

I’m torn on this. I do not trust the DeSantis admin, but I know there are good people at DEP who would fight to see this is done right. And it can be done right. I’ve stayed at park lodges in other states. Perhaps you have too. It can be a great option for us non-campers.

My sources are telling me Beyoncé will be making an unscheduled appearance.

Ironically, one of the few newspapers that still holds deadlines late enough to actually cover a speech that ends after 11 p.m ET. Top o' the hat to TheVillagesDailySun .

in all fairness to Ann Coulter, attacking Tim Walz's son for breaking into tears with love for his father, there is no one who would behave in any way like this out of love for Ann Coulter. "[He] hath a daily beauty in his life/That makes me ugly."

Watching the FSU-GT game… these new college football timeout rules are tuning half-hour last two minutes into 45-minute last two minutes.

I've thought about it. I'm working class, old school Scottish Socialist from a family of steelworkers and miners. It often gets reflected in my writing. Don't like it? Don't read it. Problem solved.

Look, the greatest slogan in advertising HISTORY was: “Contact your doctor if erections last more than six hours.”

All of my books sold way more long after release. It's never too late for a book to find success 👍

I am confident this entirely reflects COVID’s impact on life expectancy. Florida, under the denier policies of @GovRonDesanis, had extraordinary high per-capita COVID death rates in 2021, high enough to significantly reduce life expectancy data that year.

Here’s my #GetOffMyLawn bitch for this week: I’m tired of various corporations’ & organizations’ texts & email referring to me as “Scott” as if we are friends. We are not. So my name is “Mr. Powers.” Or “Mr. Fist,” if you prefer. Goes for you, too, Alexa.

Childless Cat Lady Taylor Swift has endorsed Kamala Harris and Tim Walz!!!! 🫶🫶🫶 Swifties For Kamala #SwiftiesForKamala #Swifties #SwiftieOver50 Taylor Swift Taylor Nation

Hey #litagents! Lemme tempt you with my new thriller novel: Small-town newspaper journalists dig around in a local murder, and uncover a domestic terrorism plot. The Space Coast Out-of-This-World Tatler & Herald-Tribune.