HeyJaredA Second Act
Former detective. Current writer. Aspirational runner. THE KILLING YARDS, coming 9/22/26, from Crooked Lane Books.
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THE KILLING YARDS Goes On Tour (opens the original)
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Book publicity is a marathon. I’ve been doing podcasts, writing guest essays, arranging tour appearances, and pitching outlets for the last five months or so. The business has changed, and legacy media no longer moves units the way it used to. Selling a novel is way tougher, I think, than writing one. But here we are, publication day. As you read this I’m driving to NYC to appear at the world famous Mysterious Bookshop with NY Times bestseller Adrian McKinty. More tour dates follow. If you’re ar
What I Remember (opens the original)
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My girlfriend waking me up: “A plane just hit the World Trade Center.” Us watching the second jet make impact. Me getting dressed, leaving. The drive across the Throggs Neck Bridge, black smoke off my eight o’clock. I don’t know if the towers had fallen by then. I like to think they hadn’t.My mother crying—I still lived at home—while I grabbed my gear. Chaos at the 4-0 Precinct as RDO cops filter in. Supervisors struggling to organize a response. The roll call sergeant telling us we were at war.
The Insidious Tyranny of Goodreads (opens the original)
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When you’re a writer trying to land an agent and get published, you have few metrics for what titles are succeeding in your genre. Sure, we all know about YESTERYEAR or THE CORRESPONDENT or THEO OF GOLDEN. But those novels are unicorns, and, for me, irrelevant: I’m not writing about tradwives or earnest depictions of small town gratitude. That lack of data matters because, when querying agents, a writer needs comps; that is, recent titles similar to your own. Comps give prospective agents an ide
How To Talk About A Novel In 2026 (opens the original)
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The sergeant I worked for the longest retired yesterday, after thirty-six years with the NYPD (sixteen more than me, ooof). I drove down to the Bronx from Massachusetts, and got to hang with friends and colleagues I hadn’t seen in years. Inevitably, someone brought up THE KILLING YARDS (available for pre-order now!). Full disclosure: that someone may have been me. Though in hindsight, I’m not sure why I bothered.I’ve said this before, but, broadly speaking, cops are not the ideal consumer of boo
Gratitude (opens the original)
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The first copies of THE KILLING YARDS arrived on my doorstep Thursday (actually, I grabbed them direct from the UPS driver’s truck. Where I was waiting. And bouncing from one foot to the other). Ten ARCs (advance reader copies), printed and bound and bearing my name and the 89,000 words I banged out more than two years ago. I even did an unboxing video and everything, as proof. With the help of my agent, editor, and publisher, I made a thing. And it feels real good.But do you know what feels eve
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