Doug Lane @finderdoug.bsky.social · 20/03/2026“Turn left after the gas station. The second street. The locals used to call it Benny Street because Benny Lake shoveled everybody’s sidewalk. It had a sign for a while, but public works took it down. Anyway, Bock’s Car Bar is third on the right. They do live music on Thursdays. Try the gimlet.” 120
Doug Lane @finderdoug.bsky.social · 29/09/2025I didn’t even realize that one had a lithopane bottom! 120
Doug Lane @finderdoug.bsky.social · 28/08/2025Meet C.T. Robillard. Private eye. Works the streets of Houston just a few years from now. He's about to fall into a tangle of arson, murder, industrial espionage, self-erecting nano-buildings, and more than one brush with death. Pre-order EMBER SINS starting tomorrow at douglasjlane.comdouglasjlane.comDOUG LANE WRITES 020
Doug Lane @finderdoug.bsky.social · 17/03/2025This evening, I locked down the text of my first novel and the jacket with the printer. Digital and hard copy proofs upcoming. Ordering details to follow. 030
Doug Lane @finderdoug.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Nice! I sometimes wonder if I should have stuck with programming. As it is, I speak three languages poorly, and two might as well be dead. #rockingchairtales 010
Doug Lane @finderdoug.bsky.social · 25/01/2025The secret is exhaustion. This is where a needy geriatric cat is a strategy. 010
Doug Lane @finderdoug.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Missing the missus. Drinking a Gigantic Boom! Pow! IPA before seeing BIRDMAN (2014) at the Reser with live score by the film’s composer, percussionist Antonio Sanchez - who largely improvised the original score. #notwoalike 020
Doug Lane @finderdoug.bsky.social · 21/01/2025That thing where you finally realize what’s missing from your book’s layout: the Acknowledgment statement! So you thumb through files for the list of alpha readers to properly recognize them all… and realize one of them has since died. 010
Doug Lane @finderdoug.bsky.social · 14/01/2025The debut C.T. Robillard mystery novel EMBER SINS is firming up for a May release; then the second gets dialed in for Q4 2026; and in the interim, submissions and maybe a second story collection. #keepwriting 010
Doug Lane @finderdoug.bsky.social · 11/01/2025Well-deserved. Hands-down the best experience working with an editorial team for any story I’ve sold. 010
Doug Lane @finderdoug.bsky.social · 11/01/2025Old Man Buster got a clean bill of health from the vet - looking great at 18.75! 020
Doug Lane @finderdoug.bsky.social · 10/01/2025This is a puzzler; it’s not a title I find on any of his filmographies. Do you have a year, perchance? 100
Doug Lane @finderdoug.bsky.social · 07/12/2024FREE SAMPLE FRIDAY! If you know where to look, you can check out some work for free and see if I'm your storytelling flavor. For instance, here's an alternate history Hollywood ghost story that got some mileage... www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2023/01/dadd...saturdayeveningpost.comDaddy, Play That Babalú | The Saturday Evening PostLucille Ball’s on-air pregnancy changed television forever, but what if it hadn’t had a happy ending? 000
Doug Lane @finderdoug.bsky.social · 29/11/2024I stopped this evening for a tally. Since 9/1, seven new or newly polished stories are done (30k words) and final revisions on a novel (81k words) are keyed. This might be my most productive two months in a decade. #keepwriting 020
Doug Lane @finderdoug.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Last Beaverton farm market of the season - Thanksgiving week provision highlights: rainbow chard, mizuna, romanesco, limequats. 020
Doug Lane @finderdoug.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Tomorrow’s queue: final proofing of “The Effect of a Monster Under the Bed on the Traveling Salesman Problem” - 5,700 words it only took 16 years to get right. On and off. #writing 030
Doug Lane @finderdoug.bsky.social · 18/11/2024The party that wanted to purge voters for failing to check a box on their registration form isn’t even going to slow down to ask questions about decades-old paperwork. 010
Doug Lane @finderdoug.bsky.social · 16/11/2024“Rexhinaldo Nazarko…said Muslim voters had hoped Trump would choose cabinet officials who work toward peace, and there was no sign of that.” There’s your problem, Rex: ‘hope’ is a slogan, not a strategy. 000
Doug Lane @finderdoug.bsky.social · 16/11/2024I’m not sure an eight-round decision over a 58 year old who hasn’t had a sanctioned bout in 19 years sends the message to the boxing world Paul was looking for. 000
Doug Lane @finderdoug.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Evil Twin makes a tasty stout. I need to remember EMJ the next time I make the stout ice cream. 010
Doug Lane @finderdoug.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Huh. You can apparently get an earworm from a frame of 60s animation… 010
Doug Lane @finderdoug.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Intentionally poured hard, because poured soft, it resembles motor oil. 120
Doug Lane @finderdoug.bsky.social · 13/11/2024Keyed revisions for the last 200 pages of the first mystery novel, wrote about 3,000 new words of fiction, and finished John Brunner’s THE SHOCKWAVE RIDER. As writing-productive four-day travel weekends go? 10/10. Would do again. 010
Doug Lane @finderdoug.bsky.social · 11/11/2024Happened upon a tumbleweed on my walk earlier, following the rules of the road: staying right and slowing for the intersection. 020
Doug Lane @finderdoug.bsky.social · 05/11/202456. Lots of resumes out. Radio silence back. Not even getting “thanks, no” - just ‘follow up at this link’ to find out it’s a no after a month. Nonsense. 110
Doug Lane @finderdoug.bsky.social · 29/07/2024Did I miss a Scribner “silver ticket” contest where five lucky readers got to tour @stephenking.bsky.social ‘s candy factory? #printerror 010
Doug Lane @finderdoug.bsky.social · 09/07/2024Fresh Blog Tuesday! This week: photography, family history, geometry, and a little event in Cooperstown in 1974. Come and look for…douglasjlane.blogspot.comA Face In The Crowd[An alignment of dates and events made it opportune to revisit and expand a piece that originally appeared on Facebook in 2020: the day afte... 011
Doug Lane @finderdoug.bsky.social · 13/06/2024I Am the Architect of My Own Demises, or How Spicy Was My Gumbo - a play in one act in which heartburn invades a dream, and the Tums are elusive in the night. 000
Doug Lane @finderdoug.bsky.social · 14/03/2024Through 260 of 430 manuscript pages, de- and re-constructing the first mystery novel while making mental revision notes for the second and rough-drafting the fourth. #allthewords 010
