Still pinching myself: My book The Scientist & The Serial Killer won the @ire.org Book Award #IRE26. Hope you’ll check it out.

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Book lovers and followers of #Texas #Truecrime & #investigativereporting- Join @pamelacolloff.bsky.social @Kate Winkler Dawson at KUT Fest Saturday 5/2 for a discussion of the gritty, the macabre & the power of shining a light in darkness. @texasbookfest.bsky.social @kutnews.bsky.social #nonfiction

Plenty of other complaints too: #judicialethics

More than 1,400 dead and a million displaced. Join Mayor Bill White, Rev Yearwood @HipHopCaucus @TexasObserver @reveal and @CapitalBNews in Houston 9/10 to talk about Hurricane Katrina’s lessons & huge impact on our region 20 years later. Details: waterprogramportal.org/event/the-li...

Wonderful to see Dallas friends and discuss The Scientist & the Serial Killer at The Wild Detectives with my talented @texasobserver.org colleague @stevanzetti.bsky.social. You can #independentbooks and pick up your signed copy this weekend.

My new book The Scientist and the Serial Killer is available tomorrow wherever books are sold. Signed copies available by contacting any of the bookstores hosting events

So fun to hear Emma Donoghue talking about her new novel The Paris Express— and how the “grittiest little facts” a can be spun into fiction. Inprint-Houston

Join me and @michellepitcher.bsky.social for a discussion of #serialmurder, #missingpersons, #HumanRights and my #newbook The Scientist and the Serial Killer @bookpeople.bsky.social #Atx @texasobserver.org FREE event! April 9, 7pm at BookPeople, #Austin, Texas RSVP: buff.ly/41fxDnm

The challenges to press freedom & the #Texas public information act are real- honored to join investigative reporters & lawyers engaged in this fight in panel organized by @Houstonbar @spj-posts.bsky.social Houston @josephinelee.bsky.social @lomikriel.bsky.social @lmcgaughy.bsky.social Eric Meyer

Full house for discussion of #sheriffs and #democracy w @jesspish.bsky.social & @francescadnunz.bsky.social at Alienated Majesty #indybokstore in #ATX @texasobserver.org

Join the Texas Observer’s conversation with @jesspish.bsky.social on February 5th for this FREE event at Alienated Majesty Books. @francescadnunz.bsky.social and the author will discuss Pishko's provocative book about the dangers posed by extremist sheriffs. RSVP: buff.ly/4gzkA5r

One more day to enter to win an advance copy of my #newbook the Scientist and the Serial Killer via @randomhousees.bsky.social on Instagram. #truecrime #investigativereporting

Hey: #criminaljustce reporter @michellepitcher.bsky.social of @texasobserver.org has just joined us here -an alum of @themarshallproject.org alum & @pulitzerprizes.bsky.social winner. Follow her and other #Texas Observers with my starter pack.

Texas AG Paxton still withholding communications from Jan. 6, watchdog group says. And he and the governor are attacking the Texas #publicinformation act. www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/tex... via @houstonchronicle.com

We’ve got some @texasobserver.org peeps to follow: @gusbova.bsky.social @byjustinmiller.bsky.social @francescadnunz.bsky.social @stevanzetti.bsky.social @josephinelee.bsky.social & me. Plus esteemed alum @kitoconnell.com. Bonus pic of newly-named EIC Gus Bova with his baby at an Observer bash.

Hey @bsky.app folks- I post on #investigativereporting, #nonfiction, #writinglife, #pressfreedom, #books, #gardening, #Texas and myriad topics. I look forward to building community and exchanging ideas here.

The @texasobserver.org nearly died in 2023, then thousands of readers saved us. In 2024, we proudly published investigations other media wouldn’t touch. Now we’re celebrating- join us for the Observer’s 70th birthday bash. Tix are by donation& include 2 drinks. www.texasobserver.org/a-texas-mira...