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Garrick Blake @garrickwrites.bsky.social · 20h

Some things should be guarded. That's just science.

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Garrick Blake @garrickwrites.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Lawrence Miller goes international October 11th:

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Garrick Blake @garrickwrites.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I’m finishing up Chapter 28 on my current project tonight, but Book 5 comes out two weeks from today on ebook, audiobook, paperback, and hardcover.

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Garrick Blake @garrickwrites.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A current work in progress, to be released in 2027. If all seven words next week could be "whiskey", I can probably participate all week with any single book. In some cases, maybe a chapter.

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Garrick Blake @garrickwrites.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I used to "interfere". This week has been rough for me. October 11th:

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Garrick Blake @garrickwrites.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I may freak out in a crowd but my friends have told me it is very amusing to watch.

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Garrick Blake @garrickwrites.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I’m slinging some books, wisdom and skincare advice in Macon in October. I’ll have copies of everything, including Mourning Pipes of Ireland which will have been available for less than a week.

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Garrick Blake @garrickwrites.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

More distraction from Mourning Pipes of Ireland releasing October 11th:

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Almost all the links for the Itchio bundle have been sent out! I’m at work now, so I’ll have to get the rest sent out when I’m home! If you want to get a jump on it, the link is also in the Discord channel! Still need like 50 approvals lmao. 🎃👻🤎

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Garrick Blake @garrickwrites.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This series has a lot of teeth in it. Possibly a diagnosable amount.

"Your intentions don't matter at
all to them," she took my flask and
poured herself another generous drink,
"You offended Themselves and they
keep score."
"I suppose it's too late to tell you
I don't believe in Pucas?" I asked, "Are
you going to tell me that the Easter
bunny and the tooth fairy are real, too?"
"Tooth fairies are very real," she
replied, "though they are poorly named.
They collect the teeth of human children
which are offered to them because it's
easy, but in fact they prefer just about
any bone from a living adult human."
"I hate everything you've just
said," I took another drink from my
flask, "and I'm going to not believe it
anyway."
"Your beliefs," she shrugged,
"like all beliefs, have no impact on your
reality."

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Garrick Blake @garrickwrites.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I went with "equipment" instead of rig.

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Garrick Blake @garrickwrites.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Sometime in 2027 if we make it until then.

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Garrick Blake @garrickwrites.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Sometimes I like to put true stories in my novels.

When you spend a few years dreading your
pillow it takes a while to break the habit, apparently.
This doesn't mean I don't ever sleep; it just takes a
certain alignment of stars to make it feel organic as
opposed to by prescription.
The standard paranormal investigation is hours
and hours of waiting and recording audio and video in
dark places. I have fallen asleep in dark attics and
basements, crawlspaces used by serial killers, and in
graveyards and crypts.
One time, I took a nap in the collapsed opening
of a burial cairn in Scotland. The history tour group I
was with was scandalized and I ate lunch alone until I
got off the train again in London almost a week later.

The cover for Whispers in the Crescent City -- A confused man in St Louis #1 cemetery.

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Garrick Blake @garrickwrites.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

October 11. The other four books are available now.

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Garrick Blake @garrickwrites.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

No "adept" but I had "skill" which I then stretched to "skillset" because it's the weekend and I wanted to.

The cover for Murmurs of the River of No Return by Garrick Blake.

I worried that if I died, I
would be condemned to haunt these
woods forever. Or, worse, I'd have
one of those ghost jobs like
unfinished business or explaining the
true meaning of Christmas to some
miserly capitalist.
If ending up as a ghost was
my fate, I wanted to just hang out in
my room and moan miserably for
eternity. I feel like I've earned that
right. I've certainly developed the
skillset.

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Garrick Blake @garrickwrites.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

From the Lawrence Miller Ghost Stories series.

I've seen a lot of poems about the
silence of a snow-covered forest, how the onset
of winter itself somehow keeps sounds from
carrying and all life in the woods slows down to
observe the cold in reverent silence.
Those poems are bullshit. Because while
the woods weren't a cacophony of animal
noises, the sounds that did reach my ears
seemed louder without the background of
natural activity.
Every rustle, the crunch of snow, the
murmur of the river in the distance and the
clatter of bare tree limbs seeming to shiver in
the cold winds seemed amplified - As well as
my own plodding footsteps alongside a group of
much larger men who seemed to move through
the forest without burdening the environment
with sounds of their own.

Cover of Murmurs of the River of No Return by Garrick Blake

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Garrick Blake @garrickwrites.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

There is no snuggling but there is a snug. Available October 11.

Still having a few hours before we could check in to the hotel, we stopped to waste some time in The Snug in Skerries,
another charming pub on the coast of the Irish Sea. At some
point, a reasonable person would ask themselves how much
whiskey is too much. Before that, I'd just settle for finding out
how much was enough.

Mourning Pipes of Ireland by Garrick Blake

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Garrick Blake @garrickwrites.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

For books about a bunch of haunted places, the Lawrence Miller Ghost Stories Series has surprisingly few moths. The upcoming book about Savannah makes up for all of that: