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Ꚃᴛᴇᴘʜᴇɴ ʀᴏss @stephenross.net · 19h

Narrowing it down to nine wasn't easy.

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Ꚃᴛᴇᴘʜᴇɴ ʀᴏss @stephenross.net · 26/09/2026

Spring forward. Fall backward. And once again the clock in my car will be wrong. For six months.

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Ꚃᴛᴇᴘʜᴇɴ ʀᴏss @stephenross.net · 02/08/2026

FFS Now we have to prove our working? "... we are no longer able to authenticate how the manuscript fully evolved from origin to completion.” www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...

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$2m crime novel deal collapses amid questions over AI use

Agents withdraw Jerry Falade’s hotly anticipated debut after saying they can no longer authenticate ‘how the manuscript evolved’

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Ꚃᴛᴇᴘʜᴇɴ ʀᴏss @stephenross.net · 13/07/2026

My favourite Sam Neill movie is Dean Spanley. Despite it's London, Edwardian setting, it's actually an NZ production. Wonderful film. There's a long dinner/drinking scene with the four actors, and every one of them brought their A game. It's a masterclass of acting and direction.

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Ꚃᴛᴇᴘʜᴇɴ ʀᴏss @stephenross.net · 10/07/2026

Watching UNDER THE MOUNTAIN on this chilly Matariki afternoon. There needs to be more Auckland-set horror movies.

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Ꚃᴛᴇᴘʜᴇɴ ʀᴏss @stephenross.net · 05/07/2026

Interesting article. AI's use in writing fiction worries me. It's hard work to write a book -- any endeavour in the arts is meant to be. You don't perfect the craft without the graft. Will "new" writers of tomorrow just think of AI as another tool, they way I think of a word processor or spellcheck?

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How AI is changing language

As allegations of LLM use rock the literary and media worlds, linguists explain what really distinguishes human and machine writing, while novelists including Jennifer Egan and Jeanette Winterson refl...

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Ꚃᴛᴇᴘʜᴇɴ ʀᴏss @stephenross.net · 24/05/2026

I have a new article online over at SleuthSayers. In this one I talk about my latest short story and motives to kill for.

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The Urge to Kill

A criminally compelling web site featuring professional crime writers and crime fighters.

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Ꚃᴛᴇᴘʜᴇɴ ʀᴏss @stephenross.net · 24/05/2026

The Mystery in the Library crew at Whangaparāoa Library. We had a great panel discussion yesterday (Sat 23rd May) on the craft of crime fiction. Big crowd turned out to join us.

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Ꚃᴛᴇᴘʜᴇɴ ʀᴏss @stephenross.net · 21/05/2026

I guested on MoreFM promoting the crime/mystery writers' panel discussion: CRIME BY THE COASTLINE, Mystery in the Library series (MITL), May 23rd 2026, Whangaparāoa Library.

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Radio promo for Mystery in the Library (Whangaparāoa 2026)

YouTube video by Stephen Ross

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Ꚃᴛᴇᴘʜᴇɴ ʀᴏss @stephenross.net · 16/05/2026

Fantastic mystery author panel in Brokenwood (aka Warkworth) on Wednesday night (May 13th).

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Ꚃᴛᴇᴘʜᴇɴ ʀᴏss @stephenross.net · 10/05/2026

Do clouds ever look at people and say, "Oh, that one looks like a refridgerator"?

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Ꚃᴛᴇᴘʜᴇɴ ʀᴏss @stephenross.net · 08/05/2026

I'll be in Brokenwood (aka Warkworth) next Wednesday (May 13) with a fantastic set of fellow mystery authors for a lively panel discussion on the craft of murder and mayhem. Come along and join us!

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Ꚃᴛᴇᴘʜᴇɴ ʀᴏss @stephenross.net · 02/05/2026

I've been mostly offline for the last couple of months (real life interrupts), so I missed this when it came out. A review of 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝘽𝙍𝙄𝘿𝙀 𝙈𝙐𝙎𝙏 𝘽𝙀 𝙎𝙏𝙊𝙋𝙋𝙀𝘿! Thank you, @mkinberg.bsky.social

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In The Spotlight: Stephen Ross' The Bride Must be Stopped!

YouTube video by Margot Kinberg

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Ꚃᴛᴇᴘʜᴇɴ ʀᴏss @stephenross.net · 10/02/2026

My latest short story (a wee tale of murder and mayhem in London and Edinburgh in 1949) appears in the March/April 2026 Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine.

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Ꚃᴛᴇᴘʜᴇɴ ʀᴏss @stephenross.net · 30/12/2025

Out with the old, in with the new. Good luck to us all!

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Ꚃᴛᴇᴘʜᴇɴ ʀᴏss @stephenross.net · 24/12/2025

Today's entertainment. A Hammer classic.

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Ꚃᴛᴇᴘʜᴇɴ ʀᴏss @stephenross.net · 05/12/2025

My book is launching tomorrow! Hope to see you there!

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Ꚃᴛᴇᴘʜᴇɴ ʀᴏss @stephenross.net · 15/11/2025

I have a new short story out 𝐁𝐞𝐜𝐤𝐲 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐩 (𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝). It appears today in a new Los Angeles-centric anthology of crime/mystery stories. This is a special publication: All royalties from the sales of the book will be donated to the California Community Foundation's Wildfire Recovery Fund.

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LAXtras: Los Angeles-style Crime Stories

Amazon.com: LAXtras: Los Angeles-style Crime Stories eBook : Kinberg Editor , Margot , Lopez, Lelah, Eklund, Lynette: Books

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Ꚃᴛᴇᴘʜᴇɴ ʀᴏss @stephenross.net · 31/10/2025

Halloween seems an appropriate day to announce the launch of my book. 🙂 Do come along!

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Ꚃᴛᴇᴘʜᴇɴ ʀᴏss @stephenross.net · 14/10/2025

Grrr. 🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Ꚃᴛᴇᴘʜᴇɴ ʀᴏss @stephenross.net · 02/10/2025

COVER REVEAL 😃 (publication is soon) 𝙒𝙚𝙡𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙚𝙖𝙣 𝘾𝙞𝙩𝙮! 𝘿𝙤𝙣'𝙩 𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙤𝙙𝙮 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙩!

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Ꚃᴛᴇᴘʜᴇɴ ʀᴏss @stephenross.net · 02/09/2025

One of my favourite parts of London is Hampstead. Here's a short little piece (a time capsule, now) by John Mortimer about his home town.

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1960: Life in HAMPSTEAD | Monitor | Writers and Wordsmiths | BBC Archive

YouTube video by BBC Archive

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Ꚃᴛᴇᴘʜᴇɴ ʀᴏss @stephenross.net · 22/08/2025

My story, MURDER IN F-SHARP, appears in this issue. On sale now. "𝑀𝑦 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑇ℎ𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑠 𝑃ℎ𝑖𝑝𝑝𝑠, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐼 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑐𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑎 𝑑𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑏𝑜𝑑𝑦 𝑡𝑜𝑑𝑎𝑦. 𝐼𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑀𝑟. 𝑊ℎ𝑖𝑡𝑏𝑦. 𝐻𝑒 𝑙𝑎𝑦 𝑜𝑛 𝑎 𝑚𝑢𝑑𝑑𝑦 𝑏𝑎𝑛𝑘 𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐻𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝐶𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑘..."

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Ꚃᴛᴇᴘʜᴇɴ ʀᴏss @stephenross.net · 12/08/2025

Everyone is worried about AI. I’m more concerned with what the other vowels are up to.

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Ꚃᴛᴇᴘʜᴇɴ ʀᴏss @stephenross.net · 06/07/2025

The revolution will not be televised. But there will be merch.

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Ꚃᴛᴇᴘʜᴇɴ ʀᴏss @stephenross.net · 01/06/2025

We had a wonderful time at Whangaparāoa Library for Saturday's Mystery at the Library event ("Crime by the Coastline"). A criminally great discussion on the craft of crime fiction writing.

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Ꚃᴛᴇᴘʜᴇɴ ʀᴏss @stephenross.net · 24/05/2025

If you're in Auckland next weekend, drop by the library in Whangaparaoa for a fun afternoon of mystery writers talking about the craft of mystery writing. See you there!

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Ꚃᴛᴇᴘʜᴇɴ ʀᴏss @stephenross.net · 07/05/2025

Cool news no. 2 this week! Murder, Neat: A SleuthSayers Anthology has received an Anthony Award nomination for Best Anthology! (My story ROOM OF ICE is in this book.)

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Ꚃᴛᴇᴘʜᴇɴ ʀᴏss @stephenross.net · 01/05/2025

Cool news! Murder, Neat: A SleuthSayers Anthology received the inaugural Derringer Award for Best Anthology! My story ROOM OF ICE is in this book.

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Ꚃᴛᴇᴘʜᴇɴ ʀᴏss @stephenross.net · 21/04/2025

I know it's perfectly fine, but when writing in NZ English, I am so wanting to change that verb to "centimetred."

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Ꚃᴛᴇᴘʜᴇɴ ʀᴏss @stephenross.net · 12/04/2025

Saturday afternoon at the Whangaparāoa library with one of New Zealand's finest writers, Graham Reid. Wonderful.

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Ꚃᴛᴇᴘʜᴇɴ ʀᴏss @stephenross.net · 28/03/2025

Saturday. Writing. I see it's taken two months to write 11k. WIP is currently 62k and change. Onward. The plot is thickening. #writing #amwriting #booksky #WritingCommunity #WritingLife

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Ꚃᴛᴇᴘʜᴇɴ ʀᴏss @stephenross.net · 27/03/2025

Grrr. LibGen has stolen (scraped, pirated) several of my published short stories to develop their dataset. Meta (Zuckerberg) doesn't give a damn about copyright. Apparently, Meta considered paying authors, but then decided, fuck it, let's just steal it.

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Ꚃᴛᴇᴘʜᴇɴ ʀᴏss @stephenross.net · 20/02/2025

I would actually start watching Bond movies again if this were a thing. (Yeah, it's from The Onion.)

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