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Chris Holm @chrisholmbooks.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Man, @niidasholm.bsky.social's latest interview for @publisherswkly.bsky.social, of Caroline O'Donoghue, is a barnburner—and O'Donoghue's SKIPSHOCK is a terrific read, chock full of thrills, romance, and inventive worldbuilding. Don't miss either!

publishersweekly.com

Q & A with Caroline O’Donoghue

Irish author Caroline O’Donoghue's latest YA novel, 'Skipshock,' a time-shifting fantasy, may well be her most ambitious project to date.

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Chris Holm @chrisholmbooks.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Looking for something fun to do in Portland, Maine this Wednesday evening? Wanna hang out at a cool book bar with a rogue's gallery of New England's finest crime writers for zero dang dollars? Details below! Hope to see you there!

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Chris Holm @chrisholmbooks.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

ATTENTION NEW ENGLANDERS! On Wednesday, 4/30, at 7PM, Noir at the Bar descends upon Novel Book Bar & Cafe in Portland, ME! I'll be reading (from my novel-in-progress) alongside some fiercely talented storytellers. The event is free and open to all! Wanna come hang out? Peep the link below for deets!

novelmaine.com

Author Event - Noir at the Bar | Novel

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Dana Cameron (she/her) ANNA HOYT is out now. @danacameron.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Do you love autographed books, say from writers like @realcharlaine.bsky.social @catrionamcp.bsky.social @christafaust.bsky.social or @chrisholmbooks.bsky.social? There are tons of great items to bid on, so get ready: The auction starts this week, on March 26. www.32auctions.com/organization...

32auctions.com

Crime Writers for Trans Rights 2025

Silent auction 'Crime Writers for Trans Rights 2025' hosted online at 32auctions.

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Chris Holm @chrisholmbooks.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

THE AUCTION IS NOW LIVE! Wanna see your name in a @kellyekell.bsky.social novel? Snag an out-of-print short story collection from @jordanharper.bsky.social? How 'bout three personalized, first-edition hardcovers by yours truly? Bidding on the latter starts at $25! Proceeds benefit #translawcenter!

32auctions.com

Autographed Books (Chris Holm)

Auction item 'Autographed Books (Chris Holm)' hosted online at 32auctions.

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scottynola1 @scottynola.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Check out the latest Featured items at the Crime Writers for Trans Rights Auction site before bidding starts! Diamond pendant, Book Chat with Award winning author, Tracy Clark, Autographed books from Charlaine Harris, Character naming by Lou Berney, and more! www.32auctions.com/writers4tran...

32auctions.com

Crime Writers for Trans Rights 2025

Silent auction 'Crime Writers for Trans Rights 2025' hosted online at 32auctions.

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Chris Holm @chrisholmbooks.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Stumbled across this dope scarf from a local-to-Portland-Maine maker, whose print is inspired by the cover of BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES 1932. Reasonably convinced I can't pull it off... but maybe you can. headingprints.com/collections/...

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Murder Mystery

Blood red will flow around your neck as you adorn this sinister scarf . Keep em' guessing as you sport this killer design. Inspiration: Best American Mystery Stories, 1932

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Chris Holm @chrisholmbooks.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Imagine you and your family becoming the unwitting enemies of a QAnon-style viral cult convinced you're about to trigger the apocalypse. That's the premise of Edgar winner @alisongaylin.bsky.social's riveting new novel, WE ARE WATCHING, which drops today. I freakin' loved it. Maybe you will too.

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Erika Swyler @erikaswyler.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

WE LIVED ON THE HORIZON is now out in the world. It's the first "timely" book I've written--wholly unintentional, I assure you. If you've been thinking about AI, revolution, altruism, the future, gender, aging, and what care is ... it might be the book for you.

Cover of We Lived on the Horizon pictured on a desert overwritten with junk code. Text reads "Swyler achieves a seemingly impossible amount of sophisticated worldbuilding using an economy of vibrant prose. Singularly stunning and stunningly singular." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

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Chris Holm @chrisholmbooks.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Dear @erikaswyler.bsky.social: Happy release day! Dear Everybody Else: Y'all, WE LIVED ON THE HORIZON is so, so good. Like, holy shit good. Go read it right now so we can all talk about it good. Don't believe me? Peep this Kirkus rave. Then hit up your local bookseller for a copy or three.

kirkusreviews.com

WE LIVED ON THE HORIZON | Kirkus Reviews

A murder reveals the faults in an allegedly optimized far-future society.

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Chris Holm @chrisholmbooks.bsky.social · 08/05/2024

CALLING ALL NEW ENGLAND CRIME WRITERS, ASPIRING OR OTHERWISE! Maine Crime Wave 2024, 6/14 to 6/15, is looking action-packed! I'll be there. Will you? Details here: www.mainewriters.org/maine-crime-...

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Chris Holm @chrisholmbooks.bsky.social · 22/04/2024

In which my better third by weight, @niidasholm.bsky.social, offers up an awesome book recommendation on the final installment of Kristopher Zgorski and Shawn Reilly Simmons' WE ARE WHAT WE READ (her segment, if you're impatient, is around 10:30, but the whole episode is worthwhile):

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We Are What We Read: Episode 12 – Finale

Members of the Crime Fiction Community discuss influential books. Hosted by Kristopher A. Zgorski and Shawn Reilly SimmonsFeaturing:• Esme Addison • Jessie C...

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Chris Holm @chrisholmbooks.bsky.social · 13/02/2024

Recently, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Rich Ehisen of The Open Mic. Our conversation is now available on YouTube—where you'll be treated to several cat cameos (mine) and one very sleepy dog (his)—as well as anywhere you get your podcasts!

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The Open Mic: Writers in Their Own Words with Chris Holm

One of the best parts of doing this show is getting to discover a whole lot of writers whose work I have not yet come across. Because no matter how much you ...

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Chris Holm @chrisholmbooks.bsky.social · 08/01/2024

Funny how nothing's ever soon to be a minor motion picture.

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Chris Holm @chrisholmbooks.bsky.social · 08/01/2024

Hey, the acclaimed second thriller in my award-winning Michael Hendricks series, RED RIGHT HAND, is only $2.99 for all e-formats! Get while the gettin's good! Amazon: www.amazon.com/RED-RIGHT-HA... Apple: books.apple.com/us/book/red-... BN: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/red-right-...

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Chris Holm @chrisholmbooks.bsky.social · 05/01/2024

Have y'all seen Jury Duty? I went into it with some trepidation, because there were a million ways it could've gone horribly awry, and wound up obsessed. Its unwitting star, Ronald Gladden, is a national treasure. If he ever winds up Milkshake Ducked, I'll be heartbroken. Streaming now on Prime.

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Jury Duty - Official Trailer | Prime Video

12 jurors. 11 are actors. One hell of a case... that's totally fake. The outrageous comedy docu-series Jury Duty is coming to Prime Video in Canada on May 15...

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Chris Holm @chrisholmbooks.bsky.social · 01/01/2024

FREE BOOK ALERT! @steveweddle.bsky.social's THE COUNTY LINE, which doesn't technically drop until February, was among my favorite reads of last year... and thanks to Amazon First Reads, Prime members can download it FOR ZERO DANG DOLLARS right this sec! That's cheaper than LITERALLY ANYTHING!

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Amazon First Reads

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Chris Holm @chrisholmbooks.bsky.social · 17/12/2023

Dead End is a movie so up my alley, I'm shocked I hadn't heard of it before @niidasholm.bsky.social found it on Prime. A campy, charming, Lynch-indebted indie horror romp that punches above its weight. The trailer gives you a decent sense of what you're in for. If you dig it, we'd be friends.

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Dead End (2003) Official Trailer

Dead End (2003) Official Trailer(Thriller/Mystery horror)Subscribe For BEST Horror Movies TRAILERS: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKF1Eh3eh5P5IUQsTKutspgD...

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Chris Holm @chrisholmbooks.bsky.social · 13/12/2023

"The Netflix original show 'The Night Agent' topped all other programs on the service, with more than 812 million viewing hours." Huge congrats, @mquirk.bsky.social! You won Netflix! Y'all are reading his terrific thrillers, right? Because THE NIGHT AGENT is just the tip of the iceberg...

washingtonpost.com

Netflix reveals what people are really watching with new viewing data

Netflix released a new report Tuesday that revealed viewership data behind some of the streaming service’s biggest projects.

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Chris Holm @chrisholmbooks.bsky.social · 11/12/2023

Edwin Hill's forthcoming WHO TO BELIEVE (1/23/24) is nothing short of marvelous—a multifaceted puzzle box of a mystery, as ingeniously constructed as it is joyous to read, that reminds me why I fell in love with the genre in the first place. Fans of Knives Out or The Afterparty should take note.

edwin-hill.com

Who to Believe — EDWIN HILL

Who to Believe, A Thriller

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Chris Holm @chrisholmbooks.bsky.social · 10/12/2023

Today, I’m officially Turned Down An Invite To A Metal Show Because It Conflicted With My Colonoscopy years old.

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Chris Holm @chrisholmbooks.bsky.social · 03/12/2023

Holy hell. I was lucky enough to score an early copy of Tracy Sierra's NIGHTWATCHING (2/6/24), and it is astonishing. A white-knuckled, one-sitting, flashlight-under-the-bedsheets debut that could be shelved as anything from survival horror to domestic suspense. Preorder now and clear your schedule.

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Chris Holm @chrisholmbooks.bsky.social · 02/12/2023

Fuck, do I love For All Mankind.

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Chris Holm @chrisholmbooks.bsky.social · 19/11/2023

I hate intrusive fundraising as much as the next guy, but there’s something viscerally satisfying about responding STOP to an unwanted text.

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@JanetReid -- lit agent, query shark @janetreid.bsky.social · 29/10/2023

How about this: "I bought it but I'm too scared to read it" -Janet Reid

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Chris Holm @chrisholmbooks.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

PEOPLE OF EARTH! For ONE WEEK ONLY, my acclaimed biological thriller, CHILD ZERO, is only $2.99 for all e-formats! THAT'S $11 OFF! Apple: books.apple.com/us/book/chil... Amazon: www.amazon.com/Child-Zero-N... BN: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/child-zero... Google: play.google.com/store/books/...

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Chris Holm @chrisholmbooks.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

ME REX’s Giant Elk, out today, is the best album I’ve heard in ages—idiosyncratic, anthemic, and frequently breathtaking. If you’re the sort of hopeless relic who believes rock music still matters, you owe it to yourself to give it a spin.

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Chris Holm @chrisholmbooks.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

BRACE YOURSELVES, New Hampshire! This SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY at 4PM, Noir at the Bar is taking over Portsmouth Book & Bar! I'll be reading alongside a veritable boatload of New England's finest. We'll sell you the whole seat (no we won't; it's totes free), BUT YOU'LL ONLY NEED THE EDGE.

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Chris Holm @chrisholmbooks.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

Yesterday’s run was one of those brutal slogs in which every step feels like torture, and every mile brings fresh thoughts of stopping short—but I kept at it, and finally, on my last lap through the neighborhood… I was stung by a wasp. Fuck you, universe. I finished anyway.

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Chris Holm @chrisholmbooks.bsky.social · 09/10/2023

Totally Killer, on Prime, was better than it needed to be.

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Chris Holm @chrisholmbooks.bsky.social · 08/10/2023

Got double-vaxxed yesterday, flu and covid, and I’m shocked to say I’m feeling better today than I have after prior covid-only boosters. The key? Tylenol immediately post-inoculation, and every six hours thereafter. Seriously, it’s night and day.

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Chris Holm @chrisholmbooks.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

We’ve got some coconut-based “yogurt alternative” in the house. That’s a phrase that covers a lot of ground. “Are you eating Oreos for breakfast?” “No, I’m eating YOGURT ALTERNATIVES.”

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Chris Holm @chrisholmbooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2023

UPDATE: I have fallen down a rabbit hole. This may soon be a ME REX stan account.

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Mikel Strom @mikelstrom.bsky.social · 30/09/2023

This is a perfect book to kick off your October reading.

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Chris Holm @chrisholmbooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2023

This is one hell of a read—particularly if, like me, you mostly thought of DARE as a tone-deaf Gen-X punchline and/or reliable source of ironic T-shirts.

slate.com

The Kids Who Snitched on Their Families Because DARE Told Them To

The program was about education. But it was also about surveillance.

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Chris Holm @chrisholmbooks.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

Opinions vary, but—as a huge Star Wars fan who's never been hooked by the animated offerings—I'm really enjoying Ahsoka. Andor might be the best Star Wars series, but Ahsoka is the most Star Wars Star Wars series, full of wonder and whimsy, and it pushes the franchise forward in interesting ways.

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Chris Holm @chrisholmbooks.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

A weird amount of tourists who come to Maine charter lobster boats to catch their dinner. You guys know we have people for that, right?

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Chris Holm @chrisholmbooks.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

I’m not great at judging myself or my accomplishments even halfway objectively, but here’s something I can say with confidence: these days, I’m awfully proud of the company I keep.

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Chris Holm @chrisholmbooks.bsky.social · 13/09/2023

I'm really looking forward to chatting with some good friends about a living legend who's shaped my writing and my life in countless ways—the incomparable Stephen King. Best of all? The event is free and open to the public! 6:15PM on Wednesday, 9/20, at Longfellow Books. Hope to see you there!

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Amber Love (she/her) @amberunmasked.bsky.social · 13/09/2023

"Holm addresses many of the most important issues facing society today: racism, classism, greedy capitalism, immigration, and healthcare. The way Child Zero packs all of that into one breakneck story is phenomenal." -me

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