Paul Ryan O'Connor

"Thursday Affair" is 700 nasty words about nihilistic lovers throwing away their perfect marriages on a murder-fueled race to the bottom, and it is FREE to read @ShotgunHoney #crimefiction #mystery paulryanoconnor.com/blog/thursday-…

It's a Longbox Graveyard blast from the past! Nick Fury is ... "The Man For The Job!" #comics #Marvel paulryanoconnor.com/blog/the-man-f…

The Hourglass is on Instagram! Remain calm and do your link-clicking duty. paulryanoconnor.com/blog/the-hourg…

Writing is a lonely business filled with failure. Take a victory lap whenever you can. Spray the champagne! #writingcommunity paulryanoconnor.com/blog/spray-the…

TORN CURTAIN Written by Brian Moore

Just one more thing ... about parents, bedtime stories, and about Columbo too. #mystery #Columbo paulryanoconnor.com/blog/columbo-f…

What did Raymond Chandler have against cats? #crimefiction #mystery paulryanoconnor.com/blog/what-did-…

Some crimes are worse than murder. Top Ten Film Noirs ... That Aren't About Crime, Part 2 #filmnoir paulryanoconnor.com/blog/top-ten-f…

The greatest two page ad ever? #comicbooks

The cure for the blues, as a writer, is to write. Show up. Do the work. Submit. Repeat. #WritingCommunity #crimewriting paulryanoconnor.com/blog/thursday-…

Breaking down descriptive text from a crime fiction master. Ross Macdonald's Art of Description #CrimeFiction #crimewriting #writingcommunity paulryanoconnor.com/blog/jinmmxycm…

Why my decade-old comic book blog pivoted to crime fiction. Secret Origins paulryanoconnor.com/blog/secret-or…

It's Halloween all-year long at The Hourglass. Top Ten Classic Monster Movies -- Part 1 #HorrorMovies #horror #monsters paulryanoconnor.com/blog/top-10-cl…

It's always time for Man-Thing! paulryanoconnor.com/blog/man-thing

My mind map of a Ross Macdonald crime classic. Diagraming Ross Macdonald #CrimeFiction #crimewriting #writingcommunity paulryanoconnor.com/blog/diagramin…

"As we fill our hours and days with the work of rewriting, our fictions will not be written by any one self but by the spectrum of selves we're always becoming, even as the novel is becoming alongside us." Matt Bell, Refuse To Be Done #WritingCommunity paulryanoconnor.com/blog/refuse-to…

I saw some things. Cop Club #truecrime paulryanoconnor.com/blog/cop-club

Crime is a state of mind. Top Ten Film Noirs ... That Aren't About Crime — Part 1 #filmnoir paulryanoconnor.com/blog/top-ten-f…

THUNDERBALL Written by Ian Fleming, Jack Whittingham, and Kevin McClory

@KoalaQuillHQ Throw them like confetti.

@LBoxGraveyard Victory lap... does tripping over rejection letters count?

Writing is a lonely business filled with failure. Take a victory lap whenever you can. Spray the champagne! #writingcommunity paulryanoconnor.com/blog/spray-the…

"Thursday Affair" is 700 nasty words about nihilistic lovers throwing away their perfect marriages on a murder-fueled race to the bottom, and it is FREE to read at Shotgun Honey #crimefiction #mystery paulryanoconnor.com/blog/thursday-…