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Gabino Iglesias

@gabino.bsky.social

Writer/reader/speaker/music lover/book reviewer (NPR, Locus, etc)/freelancer/photographer/PhD. Words in many places. I want to do all the things, so invite me! https://linktr.ee/gabinoiglesias

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 39m ago

Night #1 of nothing but Mahavishnu Orchestra.

Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 2h ago

By Ryan Altounji.

Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 2h ago

I’m sitting outside listening to Johnny Clarke and blowing ghosts at the sky when I hear a sound. An insect. I hear it again. More clicking than chirping. Loud. I hear it over Clarke. Again. It’s the fucking sound from Pedrator. Cool. It gets louder, moves. Now it’s…unsettling.

Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 15h ago

Wrote a thing about learning to cry and being manly and growing up with Walter Mercado and...a lot more because my brain. gabinoiglesias.substack.com/p/hey-bro-yo...

Hey, bro, you should cry more

Fellow men! Let me talk to you real quick about some alpha stuff…

gabinoiglesias.substack.com

Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 9h ago

Memories of France 2026, photo 3: Hopeful Hearts (Magic Rituals) (Paris, Ponts des Arts) #photography

Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 10h ago

Plucky? What, cutesy too pedestrian? I’ve been reading and reviewing New Directions for years and they’re one of the top publishers period.

Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 11h ago

If you’re into photography, come find me on IG. Lots of photos coming, including empty bookstores at night, empty streets, cool doors, awesome architecture, a beheaded doll, and other wonders.

Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 14h ago

Memories of France 2026, photo 2: Paris, Unrelenting Glamour (Paris, somewhere in the Latin Quarter) #photography

Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 15h ago

Wrote a thing about learning to cry and being manly and growing up with Walter Mercado and...a lot more because my brain. gabinoiglesias.substack.com/p/hey-bro-yo...

Hey, bro, you should cry more

Fellow men! Let me talk to you real quick about some alpha stuff…

gabinoiglesias.substack.com

Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 16h ago

Here’s your morning mood, courtesy of Boris Groh.

Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · yesterday

Had a clear idea for a novel today. That’s fucking RARE. Don’t get me wrong, I have a ton of ideas. Most are garbage—toothless, from the wrong gods, normal, more versions of Jaws, etc. Clear ones? Bigfoot sighting. Anyway, bestselling tech thriller/horror novel or…nothing.

Elmo I Don't Know Idk

ALT: Elmo I Don't Know Idk

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · yesterday

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Faster, Sarah Jane! Kill! Kill! 🔪@fookthis.bsky.social · yesterday

At Halloweird at Ruiz Branch Library. My team won 2nd place! My prize? This signed @gabino.bsky.social novel.

Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · yesterday

One of the best things about coming home? Mail.

Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 2d ago

Wrote a thing for my bros. gabinoiglesias.substack.com/p/hey-bro-yo...

Hey, bro, you should cry more

Fellow men! Let me talk to you real quick about some alpha stuff…

gabinoiglesias.substack.com

Vincent Lore [Coffee]@vincentlore.bsky.social · yesterday

Thank you! Island of the Baboon God is my first novella, full of brutal battles, body horror, and an old barbarian with a soft side. Also a giant plot relevant crocodile. If you like Conan the Barbarian, you'll enjoy this. www.kobo.com/en/ebook/isl... vincentlore.itch.io/freyjrulf-1

Island of the Baboon God by Vincent Lore

A sword and sorcery adventure

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S.J. Shank @sjshank.bsky.social · yesterday

Thanks Gabino! My new medieval horror novella OUR LADY OF HOLY SLAUGHTER came out on Sep. 22. It's a brutal medieval fantasy about desperate crusaders confronting pagan folk horrors on the Baltic frontier. 🔗 mybook.to/holyslaughter

Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 2d ago

It’s #FridayReads time! Let’s share books and boost all signals. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. The book that started it all for me is only $1.99 right now on all platforms. Now go ahead, share what you love! www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0D8... bookshop.org/p/books/zero...

Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr. ✶✶✶✶@tvayyyy.bsky.social · yesterday

Love Zero Saints and #FridayReads! Wanted to announce a new book coming out down the road apiece. Thanks, Gabino!

Stephanie Campisi @stephcampisi.bsky.social · yesterday

My USA Today bestselling zomcom 10 Things I Hate About Zombies is just 99c in ebook all month! It's about a smoothie shop owner and mushroom farmer who accidentally start a zombie apocalypse (oops) 🧟 🥤 🍄 www.amazon.com/dp/B0FVQTRN8C/ www.barnesandnoble.com/w/1148503613 bookshop.org/a/975/978000...

copies of 10 Things I hate About Zombies - one with bedazzled title text - next to a vase of flowers

Jessica writes "some messed-up stuff"@authorlevai.bsky.social · yesterday

Happy #FridayReads! My two novellas are here to help you pass a chilly autumn evening, whether you like poetry and romance or space exploration and what-happened-to-his-hands?! AND romance. linktr.ee/authorlevai

The poster's two novellas, available for purchase/library borrowing. THE GLASS GARDEN has a kaleidoscopic cover, THE NIGHT LIBRARY OF STERNENDACH: A VAMPIRE OPERA IN VERSE has batwings and a book against a starry sky. They books are resting on a lawn strewn with autumn leaves.

Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · yesterday

Oh, this is going to be a long, awesome series. Memories of France 2026, photo 1: Jesus in the Sun (Paris, Montparnasse Cemetery) #photography

Scott Stein @sstein.bsky.social · yesterday

If you're not interested in a coffee machine robot narrator, lots of footnotes and jokes, a detective, a futuristic mall society that stretches across the continent, wordplay, and absurd satire, then get someone else's novels. scottsteinonline.com www.amazon.com/dp/B08RB4S319

screenshot of starred review of The Great American Deception in Publishers Weekly

The Great American Deception
Scott Stein. Tiny Fox, $14.27 trade paper (228p) ISBN 978-1-946501-21-9
Stein (Mean Martin Manning) delivers a madcap sci-fi take on the hard-boiled detective genre in this fun, near-future romp that’s chock-full of rapid-fire wit, tongue-in-cheek literary allusions, and playful futuristic absurdity. Arjay, a sentient, top-of-the-line coffee machine with an excess of pep, tags along on the cases of old-school PI Frank Harken within the luxurious but dystopian confines of the Great American—a giant, autonomous, U.S.-coast-spanning shopping mall. Though the grumpy gumshoe is not always thrilled by Arjay’s presence, he can’t deny that the bot makes a “damn fine” cup of coffee. When one of the Great American’s inhabitants, Pretty Lovely, hires Harken to find her sister, kidnapped heiress Winsome Smiles, Harken and Arjay are plunged into Great American’s underbelly, where they encounter genre staples including mobsters and incompetent cops. Stein keeps the stakes high and the laughs coming, juxtaposing the gritty mystery and dystopian setting with Arjay’s perky narration to excellent effect. Sure to appeal to fans of Douglas Adams, this zany, uproarious mystery is a constant delight. (May)

The Great American Betrayal, by Scott Stein

Photo: Tiny Fox Press LLC
Trope-heavy genres like science fiction and detective mysteries offer a lot of easy targets for parodists, but it takes a deft hand to fully exploit them for their humor — to gently and lovingly tease those familiar formats while also telling a new and original story that has something to say about the human condition. Scott Stein’s The Great American Betrayal does just that as it follows a continentwide shopping mall’s house detective, Frank Harken, and his pet robot–assistant–coffee machine, Arjay, as they try to determine who is blackmailing a popular influencer — and why. This is a clever novel that just consistently dances on the edge of absurdity; it’s a great and witty time.

The Great American Betrayal, by Scott Stein
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Kirkus reviews
THE GREAT AMERICAN DECEPTION
by Scott Stein ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 1, 2020

An amusing SF private eye/coffee spoof chock-full of silicon circuits and served with laughs.

In a giant, futuristic mall, a coffee machine with artificial intelligence excitedly narrates the exploits of its new owner, a retro-style, hard-boiled gumshoe.

Stein’s (Lost, 2019) satirical SF detective yarn at least initially owes much to Douglas Adams before the material finds its own humorous tone. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy fans may recall Adams’ ancillary detail of robotic home appliances with “Real People Personalities,” often annoying, single-minded entities. And coffee machines were among those conveniences so accessorized. Arjay, the first-person (or first-gadget?) narrator here, is such a device, an ever upbeat, persistent, and talkative “top of the line” coffee maker. Arjay gets delivered to Frank Harken, a private eye of the old school, whose beat is the Great American, a fortresslike, coast-to-coast shopping/dining/entertainment/residential mall (shades of Somtow Sucharitkul’s Mallworld). The mall is a consumer paradise and haven for the elite in an otherwise ill-described (but doubtlessly unpleasant) future United States. Because of a prime directive to serve coffee in any circumstance, Arjay is mobile, resourceful, multilimbed, and filled with extra goodies such as laser cutters. The AI becomes sidekick to bemused tough-guy Harken. The chipper appliance recounts their initial case together, a missing custom-dentistry heiress named Winsome Smiles, connected to shady characters and now apparently kidnapped. Arjay’s enthusiastic narration takes readers through not only the standard private investigator clichés (mobsters, clueless authorities, duplicitous dames), but also bizarre boutiques and services (“legstentions”), literary references encompassing The Princess Bride and Edgar Allan Poe, and—in a very Hitchhiker touch—reams of persnickety Arjay non sequitur f…

Justin Bryant @justinwriter.bsky.social · yesterday

Thanks Gabino! My novel ‘Thunder From a Clear Blue Sky’ is available from Malarkey Books & I think it’s worth owning for the cover alone! bookshop.org/p/books/thun...

Thunder From a Clear Blue Sky

Check out Thunder From a Clear Blue Sky by Justin Bryant on Bookshop.org US!

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The Drebit's Rain @sdrebit.bsky.social · yesterday

Thanks Gabino, as always! A CUT BELOW isn't an encyclopedic reference book on horror, but it's a very well received, fun, and personal book filled with drive-in film chat. AND, IT'S 30% OFF until the end of the month! Order your copy today: mcfarlandbooks.com/product/a-cu...

A Cut Below - McFarland

A Cut Below A Celebration of B Horror Movies, 1950s–1980s Scott Drebit 978-1-4766-9195-4 978-1-4766-5038-8

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Steven Caumo @stevencwriter.bsky.social · yesterday

Happy #FridayReads! If the idea of entitled jocks being literally eaten alive by a tree monster tickles your fancy, my debut novel DRYAD is for you. It's the first in a trilogy, so the more copies sold, the more likely the sequel is to be published www.amazon.com/gp/product/1...

Amazon.com: Dryad: 9781685101862: Caumo, Steven: Books

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Steve Hugh Westenra 🕷️🧛‍♂️🏳️‍⚧️📚✒️@stevewestenra.bsky.social · yesterday

Happy spooky month & thanks as always! ❤️ The Erstwhile Tyler Kyle is on sale for October! If anyone's looking for some horror off the beaten track, it's a horror comedy with some meaty bones. Good for fans of Night Film & Twin Peaks! books2read.com/b/31XRan steve-westenra.itch.io/the-erstwhil...

"My guts churn as my parents’ voices echo in my head. I’m in a circle surrounded by other troubled kids and we’re spilling our confessions out for a man in a perfect grey suit who never stops smiling except to tell you he’s disappointed. He’d clap his hands. I’ll never forget the clap. It was a clap and then a rub, and he’d say “let’s get started.” He made it sound like a buffet.
He’d give us homework. Most of the time that meant writing something and sharing it with the group, but there was another trick he taught us, one I kept doing even after the sessions ended. Ritual was important, he told us. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, so what does that tell us about starting our day right by God? So each morning I’d walk to the bathroom before I did anything else and stare at myself in the mirror. I’d look myself in the eyes and I’d tell the Josh on the other side of the glass that he wasn’t gay. It was then I’d know everything was going to be okay.
" - The Erstwhile Tyler Kyle

C. J. Daley 👻 Horror & Crime Thriller author @cjdaleywrites.bsky.social · 2d ago

Thanks! Welcome to Cemetery is a police procedural with dark disappearances & murders for a crime thriller/horror feel Missing teens✔️ Bloodless bodies✔️ Kidnappings✔️ Corruption✔️ Deceit✔️ Will the investigation get off the ground at this rate? On KU! books2read.com/u/b5Kn0l

Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · yesterday

Here’s your morning mood, courtesy of Hermione von Preuschen.

Peter Rosch @peterrosch.bsky.social · 2d ago

“WHAT THE DEAD CAN DO starts in a hellscape, accepts its fate, yet chooses hope, always.” For whatever reason the paperback is still 30 percent off today: 😳 a.co/d/0bX6NdZT thnx @gabino.bsky.social have a great weekend, all! 🙏

Ladz ❄️🖤🩸@ladzwriting.bsky.social · 2d ago

Happy Friday!! This bundle of cool queer fantasy, gothic, and horror is going on for another week 🖤

Ladz ❄️🖤🩸@ladzwriting.bsky.social · 6d ago

LGBTQ+ Gothic, Fantasy, and Horror Bundle Ends on 10/17 $10 for 30+ works including THE FEALTY OF MONSTERS Volume 1, my illustrated queer retelling of the Russian Revolution about a stealth vampire discovering there's not much he won't do to prevent a forever war itch.io/b/3931/lgbtq...

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