Jim Nelson

My Hollywood crime novel Chandler & West: A Story of Los Angeles is now stocked by the San Francisco Public Library.

Humphrey Bogart and “the dingus.”

Commission Vault Mini Museum.

Over at itch.io, my cyber-noir “In My Memory Locked” is on sale as part of their big Summer Sale 2026.

With apologies to Gwendolyn Brooks.

With the release of a new Netflix adaptation of William Golding’s Lord of the Flies comes another round of media reminders that the book’s most famous plot element—shipwrecked children turn barbarously violent—was “disproven” fifty years ago on an island…

A Goodreads giveaway for fifty Kindle editions of Chandler & West has started.

Instant City, Issue 6: Disappeared Back in 2007, I had an unusual encounter at the Geary Club, a San Francisco bar near Union Square.

I’ve added a new page to this site, a little side-project I’ve been working on for a while now called “A somewhat subjective list of San Francisco streets with confusingly similar names.”

Robert Duvall (John Mathew Smith, CC-BY-SA 2.0) Twice in the past twelve months I’ve found myself taken aback by the death of a Hollywood actor.

The day has arrived—my new novel Chandler & West: A Story of Los Angeles is now available.

I was raised in a house brimming with books.

It’s here—the Kindle and paperback editions of my latest novel, Chandler & West: A Story of Los Angeles, may now be reserved on Amazon.

Jack Nicholson as J.

Some exciting news—here’s the proof copy of the paperback for Chandler & West, my upcoming novel.

As announced in my last post, my next novel Chandler & West: A Story of Los Angeles is due to arrive in the first quarter of next year.

I’m proud to announce my next upcoming book, Chandler & West: A Story of Los Angeles.

“Twitter San Francisco Headquarters” by Anthony Quintano (CC-BY-2.0) One: The carpet bomber Non-stop tweets and retweets promoting their books, as well as books by their friends.

I’m exaggerating, of course.

cafe(友光軒) by voo34oov (CC BY 2.0) There’s a software industry maxim: “Always be shipping.”

Crime writer Lawrence Block.

I recently learned that the audiobook version of A Man Named Baskerville is now available on Apple Books.

In 2011, I wrote a novella about a Silicon Valley startup that trains its virtual reality software from tourist photos it scrapes off the Internet.

Following up on earlier announcements, the final two books in the Bridge Daughter Cycle—Hagar’s Mother and Stranger Son—are now available for purchase on Kobo.

Two pieces of news: First, the audiobook of A Man Named Baskerville has been well-received.

As I discussed before, I’ve been slowly moving more of my back catalog to Kobo.

Marco Verch (CC-2.0) The audiobook of A Man Named Baskerville dropped this week on Audible!

Photo by Alex P on Pexels.com Last time I wrote about publishing my back catalog on Kobo and making all my older books nonexclusive to Amazon.

For some time now, I’ve been planning to make my older books available on ebook platforms not named after South American rainforests.

Pre-orders for the special hardcover edition of A Man Named Baskerville are now available— Catalog listing at MX Publishing Amazon (USA) Amazon (UK) A Man Named Baskerville retells the infamous Arthur Conan Doyle mystery in a way never told before.

Fan-made movie poster for William Gibson’s Neuromancer.

(This was originally written for Astral Codex Ten’s annual book review contest, but did not make it past the first round.

And that’s a wrap—MX Publishing’s Kickstarter for A Man Named Baskerville closed earlier today with 81 backers pledging £1,842 (USD$2,241) toward the upcoming Special Edition hardback.

With MX Publishing producing a special hardcover edition of A Man Named Baskerville, they launched a Kickstarter to get the word out and defray costs.

The Atlantic magazine, July/August 2001.

Last December, I posted some thoughts on “A Charlie Brown Christmas” that kind of took off.

As mentioned in my last post, MX Publishing is holding a Kickstarter fundraiser to spread the word of the publication of a special hardcover edition of A Man Named Baskerville as well as a forthcoming audiobook.

I’m pleased to announce that I’ve signed with MX Publishing in London to release two new editions of A Man Named Baskerville, my reinterpretation of the classic Sherlock Holmes mystery.

Charles Baxter Last year I wrote about dysfunctional narratives, a type of story that Charles Baxter first identified in the 1990s and which now seems overly prevalent today.

Flannery O’Connor Previously: Writer’s block Next: A unique manifesto The year that was 2020 will most likely go down as one of the most turbulent years of my life: The COVID-19 pandemic, lock-downs and masking, the murder of George Floyd and the ensuing…

My Interactive Fiction Competition entry Under the Cognomen of Edgar Allan Poe was reviewed by Justin Kim at The Final Arc.

Today is the start of the Interactive Fiction (IF) Competition 2024, which includes my latest IF title, Under the Cognomen of Edgar Allan Poe.

John Turturro in Barton Fink Previously: An all-too-familiar utopia Next: Flaubertian three-dimensionalism From a novel-writing perspective, 2018 and 2019 was a creative interregnum.

With the dog days of summer upon us, four of my novels are now available on Amazon for the low price of 99¢.

On the Interactive Fiction Community Forum, author Brian Rushton has been at work completing his series reviewing every game to win the XYZZY and IF Comp awards.

Rod Serling, 1959.

Not “rethinking realism” as in rethinking a single objective reality, hard as rocks and nails.

Forgot to mention it here—a couple weeks back, I was interviewed by otistdog (“Mad Scientist”) at the Interactive Fiction Community Forum about According to Cain.

David Kidd Previously: Portable dreamweavers Next: An all-too-familiar utopia Blogging in 2017 was again marked by another foray into the world of Kindle Scout, this time for my Bridge Daughter sequel Hagar’s Mother.

When I started this blog years ago, I made a private agreement with myself: I would avoid writing topical political content.