Michael Northrop

About once a launch I attempt to teach myself Canva—anyhoo, The Birder Murder, out 12/1 from @crookedlanebooks.bsky.social! #booksky #writesky

THIS SUNDAY: Join us at the Shade Bar in NYC! Honored to be part of this amazing lineup of authors. Come have a crepe and some dark fiction! Start your Noirvember the right way! #noiratthebar #nyc #shadebar

70s detective show looking car out on Rogers Avenue rn

The immediate AI comments on posts about reading and writing are (ironic, obtuse, soulless, misdirected, but let’s just go with) depressing #booksky #writesky 💙📚

Why, it could be… Greece lightning! 🇬🇷⚡️🏺#booksky #nextup 💙📚

Thrilled to be on the legendary and generous Dru Ann Love’s blog today, answering all the big questions! It was less a white-hot spotlight shining in my eyes than a lovely antique lamp on the end table, and that was fine with me! 📚💙 #booksky #cozymystery drusbookmusing.com/word-with-mi...

There was a vintage books pop-up at the coffee place this morning (My twin Kryptonites! Who was behind this pop-up, Lex Luthor?!) and things got violet 📚 #booksky #usedbooks #didion #dameagatha

Not how I expected it to start

Some of the best on here… go.bsky.app/VTTsXfq

Just 3 writing days this month & doubtful there will be more. It was 7 in Sept. and 10 in August. Part of that is just the vagaries of freelancing & part is the press of marketing/publicity/etc. as the launch approaches. I feel like a juggler juggling jugglers! #writesky #authorlife

You try a lot of stuff when you’ve got a book coming out in godforsaken 2026. You send a lot of cold emails 🥶 But I have 2 emails sitting in my drafts folder that are either *outside-the-box* but worth a shot OR just TERRIBLE ideas. Possibly nuts. And yet they’re right there, 1 click away… #writesky

One student, one continent-sized mushroom… It’s a battle as old as time!

It's spooky season which means I can finally bring this piece back 🎃🐈‍⬛

Sunday. Writing done. Just winging it.

First writing day this month. 829 words to fumble/find/squirm my way back into this manuscript! #writesky

The most dangerous of all the yard toys

The news is out! I'll be taking over writing the daily and Sunday strips for The Phantom, with amazing artists @drawmanley.bsky.social and @jeffweigel.bsky.social.

Another Birder Murder review incoming. Can’t post it yet, so I’m celebrating… but trying to keep it tasty #booksky

Sometimes you’ve got to espresso yourself before you can express yourself #writesky

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Santasational launch event for Murder on 34th Street by @mariahfredericks.bsky.social, in conspiratorial conversation with @sjrozan.bsky.social at the ever-cool P&T Knitwear. This book has a better hook than a candy cane: Someone is trying to kill “Santa” at Macy’s! #booksky

Remember authors, if you work hard and do all your YouTube you too can get a cardboard dump bin by the cleaning supplies #booksky #writesky

Something dawned on me today #itwasbrooklyn

Absolutely galloping to the end of this audiobook 🐎 📕 #booksky #felixfrancis

And the review ends with "More, please!" Wow!

I may never “move with leisurely panache” (tried once, pulled a muscle), but according to Kirkus, my new mystery does! My “prose is crisp” & the whole thing is “a shaggy comic whodunit featuring a sleuth with charm aplenty”! Love this review! #booksky www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

Write the book you would like to see someone pull from a higgledy piggledy pile in a secondhand shop 63 years after your death and say, "This looks fucking weird. I think I will buy it for Joan.”

There are half a dozen good coffee places near me but all a 10-20 minute walk, which creates a really lovely decision for me every morning. The walk there and back is part of my wake-up routine—and often part of my writing process too #writesky

Got this news yesterday! 😳🎃 TALES TO KEEP YOU UP AT NIGHT is a NY TIMES BESTSELLER!

It's official! A KILLER DAY IN PARADISE is out now. Get an early start on your holiday with the latest in my Elmo Simpson Mysteries!

Brooklyn Books & Booze is looking ahead to 2027 -- and we've just announced several upcoming readers! Check out the full lineup at BrooklynBooksBooze.com -- and start marking your calendars now to see authors like: @cosbrarian.bsky.social @ferretly.bsky.social @sbfeldman.bsky.social + more! 📚👀🎙️🧉

Absolutely reeling from the ignominy of being eliminated from a Yahoo fantasy football death league in Week 3. Outside, I can feel the eyes of strangers boring into me. “That’s him,” they whisper. “That’s the one.”

Let’s do this, Mouseketeers!

Flamfew [FLAM-fyoo] (also “Flamefew”) (n.) 1. Moonlight reflected upon water. Used in a sentence: “The flamfew glittered upon the ornamental koi pond, lending an air of enchantment to a place where three governesses had mysteriously vanished and the fish had grown inordinately corpulent.”

When it comes to promoting my new book, I don’t know what to do, but that’s OK because I don’t know how to do it! #allworksout #booksky

Absolutely crazy rose light in Brooklyn right now. It’s a nor’easter on the way, but it looks like Zuul

The first review is in! It’s from PW & it’s fantastic! The Birder Murder is “a top-notch cozy”! “Charming”! A “winning adult debut”! They even mention the 🐕 Woohoo! 🥳 (And phew! 😮‍💨) Out 12/1 from @crookedlanebooks.bsky.social! #booksky @saracrowelit.bsky.social www.publishersweekly.com/9798892427630

1,100 words today to nudge me past 27K in the weird art thriller™️. I’ve earned it—or, anyway, I want it. Prost! #writesky

At the moment, I'm regrettably not having cappuccinos and croissants in a quaint café in Vienna, so no, I'm afraid your email did not "find me well.”

My "what if a Hallmark movie had a serial killer" book is out today! Get A KILLER FOR CHRISTMAS at your favorite store or library: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/808849... #booksky 📚💙📚 #mysterybooks