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Stephen Graham Jones @stephengrahamjones.com · 23h

Accidentally got one like that of me the other day, but it was just a chipotle:

Shadow of a dude about to get some tacos with nothing on them but chicken.

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Stephen Graham Jones @stephengrahamjones.com · 23h

WOW: Influencer and Influencers. So good. How had I been missing them.

Movie poster for Influencer: a boat cruising away, a body floating down

Movie poster for Informers: The killer woman from so bloody, in sunglasses

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Stephen Graham Jones @stephengrahamjones.com · 04/10/2026

Somehow, Spirit Halloween keeps being on the way back from all of my errands

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Stephen Graham Jones @stephengrahamjones.com · 04/10/2026

Man, these Off the Reservation air-fresheners from @thatnerdchick.bsky.social smell EXACTLY like suntan lotion! It’s the scent I always try to get. So cool.

An air-freshener shaped like an old Sundancer RV, hanging from a rearview mirror

Sundancer RV air-freshener in its packaging. Which is an old-style popcorn bag.

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Stephen Graham Jones @stephengrahamjones.com · 04/10/2026

Whoah, cool: The Buffalo Hunter Hunter wins the High Plains International Book Award in Fiction." (highplainsbookawards.org/winners/)

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Stephen Graham Jones @stephengrahamjones.com · 04/10/2026

Tokens well, or at least Off the Reservationy, to be following THIS of all RVs home from a book event. Does that tape mean it’s about to get a parade modification? I can hope …

A 21’ RV from behind. It’s got blue tape framing the big rear window.

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Stephen Graham Jones @stephengrahamjones.com · 30/09/2026

Pretty—and pretty HUGE—Lonesome Dove, from Broken Binding

Ginormous special edition of Lonesome Dove. Gold page edges like a Bible

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Stephen Graham Jones @stephengrahamjones.com · 30/09/2026

The breakfast joint I hit with a friend every week knows the season

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Stephen Graham Jones @stephengrahamjones.com · 29/09/2026

hm. got, you know . . . SUSPICIONS I might not agree with this? but, it's in/an "Opinion"; conversation's what it's supposed to start. I do appreciate using writing to say how writing isn't important, of course—hopefully the article has fun with that as well. Soon to read, here.

an article from the NYT titled "Opinion: I'm a College Professor. Writing Isn't As Important as We Think."

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Stephen Graham Jones @stephengrahamjones.com · 29/09/2026

Reading now, right this moment (okay: before and after it). That second-person opening BRINGS out. Brian’s always a sure-thing writer.

Cover for the novel Van Death, by Brian Asman. Red. There’s a van. District sense of menace.

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Stephen Graham Jones @stephengrahamjones.com · 28/09/2026

I don’t have the photo know-how to capture the shininess of the skull—foil, gloss? Don’t know the terms. But? The teeth have contour, somehow. And the orange on the edge and sides is beautiful. Can’t wait for y’all to see it, hold it.

Cloth/hardcover Off the Reservation: the title in mouth of a deer skull. Sprayed-orange page edges. Very cool looking book.

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Stephen Graham Jones @stephengrahamjones.com · 23/09/2026

When the power dropped the other night, I went to the electricity people’s site to report it, and . . . this seems sort of like they don’t want to hear about ridiculousness like this?

An error message saying that you can’t report an electricity outage unless you have electricity.

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Stephen Graham Jones @stephengrahamjones.com · 23/09/2026

Cool new books. Somehow never read Piegan—friend I trust recommended it. So excited for the Asman. He’s a sure-thing writer. And, just the TOC of @joeytainment.bsky.social ‘s book is already hilarious. Can’t wait to dive in.

Three books staged on a little circular rug that’s supposed to look like a manhole cover for Denver. The books are Van Death, Piegan, and We’ve Been Here the Whole Time. And, if it matters, the photographer here nearly went absolutely insane trying to snap a pic without glare. This photographer doesn’t understand glare. But, like the wind, he now hates it forevermore. Times two. This may be the end of taking photos. Way too much trouble.

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Stephen Graham Jones @stephengrahamjones.com · 23/09/2026

This Killer on the Road from @sstpublications.bsky.social is gorgeous. Also, I just got the wide version of that cover, much larger, back from the framer. One of the very coolest covers I’ve lucked into. Thanks, Francois Vaillancourt. Also? Killer was the most fun to write of any of my novels.

Book jacket: a big rig/tractor from a low angle, such that we can see “Stephen Graham Jones” on the tall bumper. “Killer on the Road” is on the side of the hood. Truck’s dingy red, has seen some miles.

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Stephen Graham Jones @stephengrahamjones.com · 16/09/2026

always wanted to share a cover with a polar bear. who doesn't? and, my name here, for "Hairy Legs and All," is スティーヴン・グレアム・ジョーンズ.

cover of a Japanese quarterly. Vol.43 of Night Land. a fairy tale woman rides a shaggy polar bear.

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Stephen Graham Jones @stephengrahamjones.com · 16/09/2026

Think I got all my Bat-trades in one place. Which is to say: so many emails I don’t want to answer. Will probably be organizing stray sockets or painting my brake calipers before too long.

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Stephen Graham Jones @stephengrahamjones.com · 15/09/2026

No 13th floors in hotels, but this room is still here? Or: it only show up … sometimes?

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Stephen Graham Jones @stephengrahamjones.com · 14/09/2026

Finally seeing one of these. “I’m Gonna Hire a Wino” has a visual, after all these years.

The Hamm’s Bear (“Beer”?). A little glass statue/figurine.

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Stephen Graham Jones @stephengrahamjones.com · 11/09/2026

So wild that just seeing Marlena on Strange New Worlds instantly conjures Bo and Hope and Stefano and Victor and Roman and Abe and even John Black (whom I always hated). Had no idea this was all still in my head. And heart. Man.

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Stephen Graham Jones @stephengrahamjones.com · 10/09/2026

Place of pride in my office: my choose-your-own-adventures. Some leftover, some I just stumbled on. All loved. I long to write one.

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Stephen Graham Jones @stephengrahamjones.com · 10/09/2026

Wearing this to Monster lecture today. Also: many, many other days. My new favorite shirt, thanks to @igreggreene.bsky.social ‘s Threads of Dread

A Crow Guts t-shirt for Off the Resevation. It’s a blue icee with “Crow Guts Anonymous” on it, and an ice pick stabbing through it. Black t-shirt, of course.

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Stephen Graham Jones @stephengrahamjones.com · 10/09/2026

Glue this all together, call it “Bouquet,” and put it in the art museum.

A max capacity overflowing recycle bin outside a classroom on CU campus in Boulder, CO, professionally photographed by someone who kind of hates using their phone camera, but also really likes beautiful things. Like this.

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Stephen Graham Jones @stephengrahamjones.com · 08/09/2026

So wild that this played on the radio, when just yesterday I was playing it for my wife on my phone. Also wild: should have been on Hair Metal, yes? (that’s my #1 station)

Twisted Sister’s Leader of the Pack cover playing on SiriusXM.

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Stephen Graham Jones @stephengrahamjones.com · 01/09/2026

agreed. weird that this one got it right:

Emilio Estevez as Billy the Kid in Young Guns. he's firing a gun. could be where he's saying that line about "I'll make you famous," even. or something like that.

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Stephen Graham Jones @stephengrahamjones.com · 01/09/2026

Really digging The Yeti. But it’s hilarious that the one cowboy hat in it’s shaped to fit today, not 1947 (in The Yeti’s defense, almost all the westerns update the hats, too—I never understand it).

Cowboy hat styles through some old decades

A cowboy standing by a horse in an old stock kind of photo. Probably a promotional photo. Is that Marshall Dillon? It’s too small, and I don’t have my glasses on. Some lantern-jawed cowboy hero, anyway. In color. Maybe in technicolor, even.

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Stephen Graham Jones @stephengrahamjones.com · 31/08/2026

for Canada: Indigo's got Off the Reservation 30% off for Labour Day pre-order: www.indigo.ca/products/off...

digital placard about Off the Reservation being 30% off from August 30th through September 7th, online only.

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Stephen Graham Jones @stephengrahamjones.com · 27/08/2026

Just in the mail. Man, did I like this film:

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Stephen Graham Jones @stephengrahamjones.com · 27/08/2026

Hey, little jumping spider carrying its dinner around (another spider—didn’t know they did that)

A jumping spider with another spider in its mouth.

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Stephen Graham Jones @stephengrahamjones.com · 19/08/2026

Didn’t, until now, know these were buyable. Dogs around our place are quite interested.

Bag of “corpse crunchies”: freeze-dried rabbit ears. They look about like what you might expect.

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Stephen Graham Jones @stephengrahamjones.com · 17/08/2026

welp, there seems to be no way for this chapter I'm writing to track without bringing this into the conversation. sort of a moment I always knew was coming. not sad.

promotional photo or poster or something for the old tv show Sliders: four characters all pensive, arranged around a big science-fiction device that looks ripped from the thirties, stabbed down in the heart of the nineties.

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Stephen Graham Jones @stephengrahamjones.com · 17/08/2026

Dead soldiers, from signing thousands of tip-ins this weekend. And, thousands yet to go …

Whole bunch of orange markers on a brown table. Very used-up markers. Like the hand that used them up.

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Stephen Graham Jones @stephengrahamjones.com · 13/08/2026

I don’t have the ability to see through this font to what band this is, but, man, do I dig the cover: bison horns on a space helmet? For sure. Always. Anyway, it was on the way out at the thrift store. But now it’s got a new home. Excited to spin it. Says something about the Ghost Dance inside.

A record sleeve. The art is a Native dude with a glass space helmet that’s got bison horns fixed to it.

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Stephen Graham Jones @stephengrahamjones.com · 09/08/2026

Man, imagine stumbling onto a PKD book with Vonnegut scribbles. Like that Pynchon school paper with Nabokov in the margins. From Gilt Frame, the Kindts

Comic book dialogue/balloon talking about a PKD book with Vonnegut doodles on it, in it, part of it.

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Stephen Graham Jones @stephengrahamjones.com · 08/08/2026

He’s actually HERE today! Sometimes the road gods smile.

Some writer dude hanging out with a six-foot tall beaver

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Stephen Graham Jones @stephengrahamjones.com · 08/08/2026

Whoah, Buc-ee is actually HERE today! Sometimes the road gods smile.

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Stephen Graham Jones @stephengrahamjones.com · 02/08/2026

Man, Idris Elba is on TOP of things. And? He doesn’t have to be. He might be a hero, I guess?

Screencap of spam from “Idris Elba,” who’s very kindly trying to help with my Wikipedia page. And? Maybe it needs it? Afraid to click, see.

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Stephen Graham Jones @stephengrahamjones.com · 01/08/2026

Coolest couch. $10,000. But you’d never have to watch a scary movie alone again.

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Stephen Graham Jones @stephengrahamjones.com · 31/07/2026

Braxton in The Accountant 2 wearing a Waylon shirt!

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Stephen Graham Jones @stephengrahamjones.com · 29/07/2026

Unpacking into my new office on campus, and wondering if I really have enough fun bouncy balls

No small amount of rubber balls piled in the corner of a shelf.

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Stephen Graham Jones @stephengrahamjones.com · 28/07/2026

new Very Favorite Book: first edition of Long Lance, by this dude who just DECIDED to be Blackfoot, and wrote a book about coming up that way. SO cool. endless amounts of fun. and? pretty well-done, too. also, if you're going to pretend to be Indian, why NOT just be a chief, right? makes sense to me

title page and frontispiece of/for Long Lance, by Buffalo Child Long Lance.

and? not really sure if 'frontispiece' applies, here. never actually used it before, and didn't just look it up.

inscription in the book: "This, the FIRST autographed copy [of] my first book goes with my sincere affection to my very friend, [somebody]" signed, "Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance, some 1928 date.

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Stephen Graham Jones @stephengrahamjones.com · 24/07/2026

How’d I never know about these? Can work outside in the bright sunlight, now. Sort of the dream, at least as long as it’s hot.

A little tent-thing over a MacBook Air. At a patio table.

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Stephen Graham Jones @stephengrahamjones.com · 23/07/2026

Of all the dozens and dozens and probably even more con bags i’ve come home with, this one has been the survivor. It’s the most useful. Zippers, shoulder strap. Holds so, so much.

A red duffel bag on a hardwood floor. Bag says “WFC 2021”

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