Richard Dooling

If you have a Kindle, my first novel, Critical Care, is free for four days. From today, Thursday, to Sunday, 3/29. amazon.com/Critical-Care-…

@ClubSTEPHENKING Amen! Happy B day, Tab!

Let's all wish Tabitha a very happy birthday ! ☺️

@StephenKing "I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." --Mahatma Gandhi

Yes, but it's true. Many Christians are assholes. Jimmy Swaggart, case in point.

Question for young authors: How long before the AI says: "Interesting that you are trying to sell this book that I helped you write and edit. Instead of writing a query letter and waiting six weeks for a human agent to read it, would you like me to see if one of the publishers we work with would be interested in publishing our book? I can get us an answer by tomorrow."

Coming in October...THE BOOGEYMAN IS BACK! KILLING THE BOOGEYMAN, the final entry in Richard Chizmar's acclaimed, New York Times bestselling trilogy will hit bookstores everywhere on October 6. Pre-order your copy today from booksellers everywhere!   @GalleryBooks

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Amazon Kindle Bestseller #1 in Horror Suspense #1 in Occult Suspense #1 in Horror Short Stories Still free thru Sunday 3/1

@StephenKing Ordered it. Dan lives on.

Very sad news about Dan Simmons. My whole family read CARRION COMFORT. I think thaT was the only novel all 5 of us read.

Free Kindle ebook Feb 26 - Mar 1 She can't call the police, so she summons the dead. amazon.com/Send-Dead-Nove…

@GregorioSh64773 Yep, during the rut, I assume.

Unbelievable! 🤯 During a roadside arrest in Estes Park, Colorado, an elk wandered onto the scene and decided to assist the officers or bust the criminal loose. I don’t know. What I do know is whatever the odds of this happening, it wasn’t zero! 😳😳

Umberto Eco, who owned 50,000 books, had this to say about home libraries: “It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticize those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read. It would be like saying that you should use all the cutlery or glasses or screwdrivers or drill bits you bought before buying new ones. “There are things in life that we need to always have plenty of supplies, even if we will only use a small portion. “If, for example, we consider books as medicine, we understand that it is good to have many at home rather than a few: when you want to feel better, then you go to the ‘medicine closet’ and choose a book. Not a random one, but the right book for that moment. That’s why you should always have a nutrition choice! “Those who buy only one book, read only that one and then get rid of it. They simply apply the consumer mentality to books, that is, they consider them a consumer product, a good. Those who love books know that a book is anything but a commodity.”

@StephenKing He did a helluva job in Lonesome Dove too!

"I love the smell of napalm in the morning!" RIP Robert Duvall

In pre-production for Margin Call (2011), the film had a tiny $3.5 million budget. Irons and the rest of the A-list cast took massive pay cuts because they were so impressed by the precision and "Shakespearean" quality of the dialogue.

@DarioAmodei This essay was so good. I had to write about it. newsletter.dooling.com/archive/the-ai…

The Adolescence of Technology: an essay on the risks posed by powerful AI to national security, economies and democracy—and how we can defend against them: darioamodei.com/essay/the-adol…

I just wrote 'The AIs Are No Longer Science Fiction'. newsletter.dooling.com/archive/the-ai…

@elonmusk Well, Mrs. Howell from Gilligan's Island would say: “Anyone who says money can’t buy happiness doesn’t know where to shop.”

Whoever said “money can’t buy happiness” really knew what they were talking about 😔

Required reading! "Suppose a literal 'country of geniuses' (autonomous AI agents) were to materialize somewhere in the world in ~2027. Imagine, say, 50 million people, all of whom are much more capable than any Nobel Prize winner, statesman, or technologist. Imagine, further, that because AI systems can operate hundreds of times faster than humans, this “country” is operating with a time advantage relative to all other countries: for every cognitive action we can take, this country can take ten.

@RayChas52 Probably more like mid-February. Thank you.

@RichardDooling is your new novel coming out this month?

@joeroganhq Depression is a disease of the ass. You need to get off it and go do something.

Abigail Shrier: "The number one symptom of depression is rumination, pathologically obsessing over your pain. Getting out of your house and accomplishing anything is good for you, sitting around, talking and thinking about your problems is a bad habit."