Nick is the author of the brand new Slaughterhouse Blues and A Brutal Bunch of Heartbroken Saps.

On this episode, we talk about promotion, the Alphasmart Neo 2, writing cigar books for Playboy, the "good old days" of being paid good money by magazines, Elon Musk nuking Mars, CIA astral travel, creating propaganda magazines to drop overseas, crime writing influences, the Chuck Palahniuk Effect, the joys of crime fiction, writing sequels, the "bag of money" trope, the awesomeness of Megan Abbott, and his new novel.

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