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Pete Mesling
“The Thing in the Road”: An Author Reading
With my new horror collection, Fool’s Fire, coming in October, I thought it would be fun to give you a taste of what will be on offer....
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Pete Mesling
- Jul 30
- 1 min
Come, Saints and Sinners ... Step into the Fool's Fire!
Something in the middle distance. Much larger than a man. Shaking its cloven head back and forth on a hilltop, backlit by a full moon as...
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Pete Mesling
- May 8
- 2 min
TaleFlick and Blackberry Book Tours Updates
Things have been quiet here on the blog front, but it would be a mistake to think that means I haven’t been pounding away at the anvil of...
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Pete Mesling
- Feb 19
- 3 min
A Writer's Case for TikTok
TikTok didn’t seem very promising to me at first. I’m guessing a lot of writers don’t bother to move beyond a similar initial impulse....
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Pete Mesling
- Dec 28, 2021
- 4 min
2021: A Writer's Rewind
And so we find ourselves in that cozy interval between Christmas and New Year’s. New Year’s Day is especially meaningful for me this...
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Pete Mesling
- Dec 4, 2021
- 3 min
Cover Reveal: The Maker-Man of Merryville
Here it is at last, folks: the cover reveal for The Maker-Man of Merryville. I had hinted that I may end up releasing this book in time...
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Pete Mesling
- Sep 28, 2021
- 15 min
Source Material: A Curated Film-Adaptation Bibliography (1930 - 1980)
My principal aim with this bibliography was to get literary-minded cinephiles pointed in the right direction should they develop an...
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Pete Mesling
- Sep 16, 2021
- 3 min
Publishing after Fifty: A Look Ahead
Here I am, mere months away from my fiftieth birthday. Some milestones in life are more or less made up, but how could anyone let the...
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Pete Mesling
- Aug 11, 2021
- 5 min
Books to Date and Books to Come
Reader, you’ve put up with me as I’ve shifted my focus from horror to crime and suspense fiction over the past year or so, and I’ll repay...
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Pete Mesling
- Jul 3, 2021
- 6 min
"God Bless America": A Shocking (and FREE!) Tale of Criminal Hopelessness
I suspect that a marketing person would have urged me to use a title for this post that points to the fact that my new collection, The...
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Pete Mesling
- Jun 19, 2021
- 15 min
The Wages of Crime: A Final Teaser
Ladies and gentlemen, you are about to meet a homicide investigator by the name of Lieutenant Caldera, not only in the crime collection I...
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Pete Mesling
- May 21, 2021
- 2 min
The Kirkus Review of The Portable Nine
The verdict is in from Kirkus Reviews! Click here to read their review of my noir thriller The Portable Nine, or see below. You can also...
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Pete Mesling
- May 2, 2021
- 2 min
Fallen Giants of the Points, by Alan M. Clark: A Review
I realized a number of things while reading this novel. One is that it’s been too long since a book left me teary eyed. Another is that...
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Pete Mesling
- Mar 29, 2021
- 19 min
Free Story from My Forthcoming Collection: THE WAGES OF CRIME!
Greetings, one and all. As some of you know, I have a collection of crime stories coming out this summer called The Wages of Crime. To...
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Pete Mesling
- Feb 20, 2021
- 2 min
Surprise Book Announcement: Imperfect Lodgings Available Now!
This is almost as much of a surprise to me as it is to you, but I already have another book in the world. As usual with any kind of...
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Pete Mesling
- Feb 6, 2021
- 6 min
Beyond Twitter: A Deeper Dive into Recent Writerly Tweets from My Feed
[Self-promotional preamble: an interview I recently gave to the good people at IndieMuse—in support of the release of my new thriller,...
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Pete Mesling
- Jan 26, 2021
- 1 min
The Portable Nine: Book Launch Follow-Up
Proving that you can never plan for every possible glitch when launching a new title, a bizarre technical issue with my blog reared its...
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Pete Mesling
- Jan 23, 2021
- 2 min
Order The Portable Nine!
I am all the adjectives as I reveal the cover of my debut novel: delighted, ecstatic, giddy, frolicsome ... You get the picture. But this...
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Pete Mesling
- Nov 29, 2020
- 3 min
Publishing and Other Follies: A Look Back at 2020
Greetings from the Chamber of Horrors! I've decided to do my “year in review” roundup a little earlier than originally planned, since...
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Pete Mesling
- Oct 31, 2020
- 1 min
New Novel Coming Soon!
Happy Halloween, everyone! It is with delight, trepidation, incredulity, and gratitude that I announce the imminent release of my debut...
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