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Jonathan Payne

@jon7payne.bsky.social

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CITIZEN ORLOV | An Apple Book of the Month | IBPA Silver Medal, Mystery-Thriller | IPPY Bronze Medal, Suspense-Thriller | Sequel, HOTEL MELIKOV, out now!

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Jonathan Payne @jon7payne.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

One month from today! Join me at the Mysterious Bookshop in NYC for a colorful conversation about espionage, absurdity, nuns and war. Preorder here: www.mysteriousbookshop.com/products/jon...

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Jonathan Payne @jon7payne.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Hotel Melikov, the sequel to Citizen Orlov, will be out 11/18. Join me on pub day at @mysteriousbookshop.com in NYC with Greg Wands or on 11/20 at Elaine's in Old Town Alexandria with Jeffrey James Higgins.

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Jonathan Payne @jon7payne.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Bookmail from Croatia! Thanks to VBZ Books for these beautiful specimens.

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Jonathan Payne @jon7payne.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Fishmongers for Orlov! This Zagreb fishmonger proudly displaying his Croatian language edition of CITIZEN ORLOV was snapped by the translator, Neven Anticevic. #booksky #books #thrillerbooks #vbz #vbzbooks #citizenorlov #hotelmelikov #spyfiction #espionage #zagreb #croatia #hrvatska

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Jonathan Payne @jon7payne.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Citizen Orlov now available in Croatian from VBZ Books. Translation by Neven Anticevic. Cover by Milan Trenc, creator of The Night at the Museum.

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Jonathan Payne @jon7payne.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Thanks to @publisherswkly.bsky.social for a starred review of HOTEL MELIKOV, the sequel to CITIZEN ORLOV. Out September. Preorder now. 💙📚 #booksky

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Jonathan Payne @jon7payne.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Nuns with guns! HOTEL MELIKOV, the sequel to CITIZEN ORLOV, will be out 9/16/25.

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Jonathan Payne @jon7payne.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

We're doing a series! HOTEL MELIKOV, sequel to CITIZEN ORLOV, will be out May 13th. Available to pre-order now!

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Jonathan Payne @jon7payne.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

It’s day 20 of the Fiction Kitchen Berlin advent calendar of weird flash fiction. Hear me read On Discovering My Poetry Causes Hysteria, wherever you listen to podcasts…

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Jonathan Payne @jon7payne.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Writers! Take a trip down Exposition Boulevard.

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Jonathan Payne @jon7payne.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Paid a visit to the New Fiction section at NY Public Library to see CITIZEN ORLOV on the P shelf. #writersofbsky #writingcommunity #writerlife #thrillerbooks #nypl #library #publiclibrary

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Jonathan Payne @jon7payne.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Coming soon! A podcast advent calendar of weird short fiction from Fiction Kitchen Berlin. On 12/20 I’ll be reading ‘On Discovering My Poetry Causes Hysteria’.

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Jonathan Payne @jon7payne.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Today's political moment, as foreseen by Orwell in '1984', published in 1948. #orwell #1984 #georgeorwell #readabook

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Jonathan Payne @jon7payne.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Hello @bsky.app folks. Just landed here because of you-know-what. I'm a NYC-based writer of thrillers with an absurd sense of humor. Looking to connect with other writer and reader types. #writingcommunity #writersofbsky #readingcommunity #readersofbsky #thrillerbooks #readabook #thrillers

A standing bearded man reads from a book to seated attendees in a bookstore.

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