C. N. Nevets

@timstretton Language is one of the few things that, despite all efforts of external authorities, really is owned by the people who use it and I think that's pretty magical.

People (at least in America) are addicted to a sense of urgency.

I'm behind on this, but I finally jumped in last night, and, man. Different genre, different voice, same Tim Stretton story-telling. No writer is better than Stretton at packing character and world into smoothly flowing prose. A pacey story you experience as much as you read.

Finally, summer is over. Phew.

Letterman is more famous than Michael Jackson?

Just sayin', Joe Perry's guitar hook is better on the Run-DMC record.

At a certain age, you no longer hate those Sugar Ray songs that were overplayed during college. I am that age.

You've read CATFISH ALLEY, now listen to the official playlist. If nothing else, the chapter titles will make more sense... open.spotify.com/playlist/5O10S…

It's nice having linguistic creative for a multeity of reasons. Making up new words that really should just be words is one of those reasons.

@BellaFrancessca I always used to put a hyphen in it, i.e. "pre-writing," but I think I prefer your way. My ancient blogger blog still has posts going back to 2009 and where I was using it. Crazy. Language is an adventure onto itself.

Seeing in blogs just 'post-writing ' proves my suspicion— that this time I don't know because there's not a formally circulated term, thus the use of a hypen between 'post' and 'writing'. I also invented prewriting not knowing it was real, but a check proved it so long ago!

@MykSaiten Well, I know the title, but I've definitely never seen the movie they show in that poster.

Nobody talks about this one

@lura_groen Yeah, I'll admit it. That one eludes me, too.

The far right uses “based” to mean good, so everyone know uses it ironically, and sometimes it’s good and sometimes it isn’t? Explain.

It’s one kind of old when you have to look up what the kids are saying on urban dictionary. It’s an entire nother level of old when you no longer understand even the explanations on urban dictionary.

WHAT DO BABYS WANT FOR CHISTMAS ALL THEY TEETH

A crime caper novel set in Barcelona. If you even think you might be interested, you owe it to yourself to take advantage of this pricing and grab the book. Tim Stretton tells a story like one else.

@timstretton @SpellBoundBks @NicolaEast1 It is sharp, attractive, thematic, and it stands out. Everything a book cover should be. My only regret is that on my kindle I don't get all the color. haha

@cnnevets @SpellBoundBks That's my brilliant editor @NicolaEast1, working from some feebly nebulous suggestions by me (essentially a few Saul Bass movie posters).

CATFISH ALLEY, the first of the Barcelonoir Trilogy, is out with @SpellBoundBks now. It's free on Kindle Unlimited and only 99p to buy. The rest of the trilogy, CASANOVA STREET and DIAMOND BOULEVARD, will be out soon! amazon.co.uk/Catfish-Alley-…

It's been ages since I was a true micromanager, but it's still weird to me when I give an assignment to a team-member in another building and they do the work but never indicate that they received my request, let alone that they completed it.

Why put the APPLY button up at the top of a form you have to scroll down to complete???

Mercy is for punks, kid, and I just ran outta Ramones records.

Be safe, Greenwood and ECI friends.