Michael Hayes
@michaelhayesmedia.bsky.social
I’m a filmmaker and mystery writer working on a series of hardboiled detective novellas set in 2055 Los Angeles, where life is cheap, the tech is glitchy and magic is real. The first novella can be found here: https://books2read.com/u/bxkBzk
Recently reread THE LIME TWIG by John Hawkes. One of my all-time favorites. A gritty tale of a plot to steal a race horse in the seedy underworld of post-WWII England. Flannery O’Connor says “you suffer TLT like a dream… that you want to escape from but can’t.” Check it out if you haven’t!
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September 4, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Recently reread THE LIME TWIG by John Hawkes. One of my all-time favorites. A gritty tale of a plot to steal a race horse in the seedy underworld of post-WWII England. Flannery O’Connor says “you suffer TLT like a dream… that you want to escape from but can’t.” Check it out if you haven’t!
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After dictionary.com stopped working for some reason, I went to redownload it and decided to download the OED app instead. The word of the day is “bloodshed”. I think I’m now an OED user lol
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June 27, 2025 at 10:41 AM
After dictionary.com stopped working for some reason, I went to redownload it and decided to download the OED app instead. The word of the day is “bloodshed”. I think I’m now an OED user lol
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When he was young and dreaming of the future, hadn’t he imagined an ideal profession? He hadn’t told anyone, and never utttered these words aloud, even to himself, but he would have liked to be a ‘mender of destinies’. - Maigret gets wistful in Maigret and the Headless Corpse. Worth a read!
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June 19, 2025 at 1:06 AM
When he was young and dreaming of the future, hadn’t he imagined an ideal profession? He hadn’t told anyone, and never utttered these words aloud, even to himself, but he would have liked to be a ‘mender of destinies’. - Maigret gets wistful in Maigret and the Headless Corpse. Worth a read!
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Just finished Chandler’s The High Window. Marlowe solves another case. Some parallels to The Big Sleep. Especially in its convolutions. Chandler plots are often confusing in the very best ways.
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June 14, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Just finished Chandler’s The High Window. Marlowe solves another case. Some parallels to The Big Sleep. Especially in its convolutions. Chandler plots are often confusing in the very best ways.
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So I made a reader app for my stories and uploaded it to the App Store. It’s only for iOS so far. It’s also got a gaming element, solving clues in the mysteries. Would love you to check it out and give it a good rating! Let me know if it crashes. lol
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May 31, 2025 at 12:34 PM
So I made a reader app for my stories and uploaded it to the App Store. It’s only for iOS so far. It’s also got a gaming element, solving clues in the mysteries. Would love you to check it out and give it a good rating! Let me know if it crashes. lol
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Current mood. A riff on Giacometti. “The chalice at 4am.” Yet it is a palace surely. I’m a lucky man. Precarious teetering on the edge notwithstanding. Finally hot enough in LA to sit out at night. Leaving for Cannes in a few hours. I should stay here and write. But I’m an idiot. So we drink
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May 11, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Current mood. A riff on Giacometti. “The chalice at 4am.” Yet it is a palace surely. I’m a lucky man. Precarious teetering on the edge notwithstanding. Finally hot enough in LA to sit out at night. Leaving for Cannes in a few hours. I should stay here and write. But I’m an idiot. So we drink
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I was using em dashes obsessively years ago in an MFA writing program, a style I really liked and still like, but wonder if I wrote in this style now, would I be accused of using AI? Or did AI use my stories to train itself????
More em dashes is all I’m saying! 😬
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More em dashes is all I’m saying! 😬
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April 19, 2025 at 6:37 AM
I was using em dashes obsessively years ago in an MFA writing program, a style I really liked and still like, but wonder if I wrote in this style now, would I be accused of using AI? Or did AI use my stories to train itself????
More em dashes is all I’m saying! 😬
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It was exactly what I thought it would be. I just wanted the higher classes, but it’s a racket you know?
Sharp knew. He was surprised she did, but everyone was a cynic these days. Babies were being born at that very moment with scowls and lists of demands.
- Excerpt from Magic 101
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Sharp knew. He was surprised she did, but everyone was a cynic these days. Babies were being born at that very moment with scowls and lists of demands.
- Excerpt from Magic 101
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March 25, 2025 at 6:30 AM
It was exactly what I thought it would be. I just wanted the higher classes, but it’s a racket you know?
Sharp knew. He was surprised she did, but everyone was a cynic these days. Babies were being born at that very moment with scowls and lists of demands.
- Excerpt from Magic 101
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Sharp knew. He was surprised she did, but everyone was a cynic these days. Babies were being born at that very moment with scowls and lists of demands.
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Just realized that the time change here in the U.S. actually increases the darkness before dawn. So I’ve decided to start another Maigret at 6:25am. Maigret Enjoys Himself. Cheers
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March 10, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Just realized that the time change here in the U.S. actually increases the darkness before dawn. So I’ve decided to start another Maigret at 6:25am. Maigret Enjoys Himself. Cheers
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A framed publicity still on the wall of the legendary Smoke House. One of my favorite movies from one of my favorite books: The Maltese Falcon. Amazing to me how faithful the movie was to the novel, omitting only one substantial section
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March 9, 2025 at 7:12 AM
A framed publicity still on the wall of the legendary Smoke House. One of my favorite movies from one of my favorite books: The Maltese Falcon. Amazing to me how faithful the movie was to the novel, omitting only one substantial section
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Made this little animation of my book cover. Running an ad to see if I can get more sales, which have ground to a halt. But what’s nice is that the books are available and just waiting for me to figure out how to get them read. It’s the ‘it’s not you it’s me’ routine. Alas
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March 7, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Made this little animation of my book cover. Running an ad to see if I can get more sales, which have ground to a halt. But what’s nice is that the books are available and just waiting for me to figure out how to get them read. It’s the ‘it’s not you it’s me’ routine. Alas
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In Nicaragua for a wedding. The Best Western is a sprawling complex of rooms. Sort of a barracks theme. The parrot rock garden is nice. And I think, what would a hardboiled detective be doing here? Who was killed? And why? And how can it be solved? #booksky #indieauthors
February 13, 2025 at 5:05 PM
In Nicaragua for a wedding. The Best Western is a sprawling complex of rooms. Sort of a barracks theme. The parrot rock garden is nice. And I think, what would a hardboiled detective be doing here? Who was killed? And why? And how can it be solved? #booksky #indieauthors
Yes. Our (barely) trimmed tree this year in America. The missus went minimal for some reason. I mean it’s just lights. Is that even considered trimming? I’m going to sneak some things on there. She’s afraid our 2 year old son will destroy ornaments I think. She’s probably right
December 24, 2024 at 2:21 PM
Yes. Our (barely) trimmed tree this year in America. The missus went minimal for some reason. I mean it’s just lights. Is that even considered trimming? I’m going to sneak some things on there. She’s afraid our 2 year old son will destroy ornaments I think. She’s probably right
Found it! I think it needs a blurb in the upper third. And yet. I have no blurb. Hoping to get this out before end of year
December 23, 2024 at 5:06 AM
Found it! I think it needs a blurb in the upper third. And yet. I have no blurb. Hoping to get this out before end of year
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21/20 an addendum to the book challenge! One of my most prized possessions
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December 15, 2024 at 1:52 PM
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21/20 an addendum to the book challenge! One of my most prized possessions
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