Paul Ryan O'Connor @paulryanoconnor.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Even I'm not enough of a dinosaur to have seen the show called "The Dinah Shore Show," which went off the air before I was born. I'm conflating that older show's title with "Dinah!" -- which ran from 1974-1981. But that exclamation mark at the end of Dinah! also has a dinosaur connection: 190
Paul Ryan O'Connor @paulryanoconnor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026My autumnal rite is in full swing -- finding free streaming services for baseball playoffs, because my paid MLB.TV subscription is blacked out. A Peacock trial covered the wild card round. A 21-day YouTube TV trial will get me through the next round, and part of the LCS. After that? Ooof. 2211
Paul Ryan O'Connor @paulryanoconnor.bsky.social · 04/09/2026It's a new cover, and a new lease on life for Anna Scotti's excellent "It's Not Even Past," coming October 20th from Crippen & Landru. Check out the cover below, and read my interview with Anna on this collection and her life as a writer at The Hourglass: www.paulryanoconnor.com/blog/anna-sc... 0302
Paul Ryan O'Connor @paulryanoconnor.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Wise words from Michael Bracken @crimefictionwriter.bsky.social about finding markets for your short stories. www.sleuthsayers.org/2026/08/find... 0120
Paul Ryan O'Connor @paulryanoconnor.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Latest publications from my colleagues in the Short Mystery Fiction Society. shortmystery.blogspot.com/2026/08/more... 0111
Paul Ryan O'Connor @paulryanoconnor.bsky.social · 31/07/2026With Hobbit-like determination, this non-Tolkien suspense thriller finally found its market after better than 1000 days in the market. All the numbers and lessons behind "A Finger For Frodo." www.paulryanoconnor.com/blog/frodo-b... 0131
Paul Ryan O'Connor @paulryanoconnor.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Review and analysis of my short story, "Strangers On A Train On A Train" by @edridgley.bsky.social It is rare to have my work reviewed, rarer still to have it done with such care and consideration. shortmystery.groups.io/g/main/topic... 0120
Paul Ryan O'Connor @paulryanoconnor.bsky.social · 09/07/2026How It Started/How It's Going #comicsky 1141
Paul Ryan O'Connor @paulryanoconnor.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Watched: (not all at once, though that would have been something) 1150
Paul Ryan O'Connor @paulryanoconnor.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Banger of a cover for "Death of the Seven Masks," by Paul Ernst. Writing under the house name of Kenneth Robeson for Street & Smith, Ernst also wrote the first two dozen "Avenger" novels. 1160
Paul Ryan O'Connor @paulryanoconnor.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Watched: Not always good, but when it's good, it's great. I didn't expect so many clowns. 1151
Paul Ryan O'Connor @paulryanoconnor.bsky.social · 29/05/2026There are several women in my life who might appreciate pointing out this "Valley of Silent Men" on a map. (Possibly all of them). 0240
Paul Ryan O'Connor @paulryanoconnor.bsky.social · 07/05/2026"Gerrymandering" is trending today for serious and important reasons, but my eye keeps reading it as "Gerry Andersoning," and it's messing me up. 0252
Paul Ryan O'Connor @paulryanoconnor.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Well, that's the end of a kind a week I don't want repeated. Happy we made it to Friday. I'm out of here. Until Monday. 0355
Paul Ryan O'Connor @paulryanoconnor.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Watched: Two Stanwycks on the poster, but only one in the movie. 1131
Paul Ryan O'Connor @paulryanoconnor.bsky.social · 30/03/2026My publisher asked for a novella, so I'm giving it a go -- I'm half way through a 20K-word manuscript. Too long for a short story, too short for a novel, so none of my usual outlining methods proved appropriate. Hunting and pecking my way through it. For me, this is working without a net. 3140
Paul Ryan O'Connor @paulryanoconnor.bsky.social · 24/03/2026I spend a good portion of my week trying to think up new crime fiction plots, but never in a million years … 5172
Paul Ryan O'Connor @paulryanoconnor.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Drove to Los Angeles and back last weekend, and it felt like the whole time my rear-view mirror was full of this. (If you know, you know). 040