if it looks like a duck....quacks...

Wow. That’s awesome.

Ha. Brilliant comment.
Brilliant.

Beautiful. And - so interesting.

A little over two months from now!

This story made it into The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2026 edited by @stephcha.bsky.social and @meganabbott.bsky.social Incredibly grateful. Incredible blown away.

Not-So Happy Endings Of the literary variety

My latest post on the Stack: victordeanda.substack.com/p/not-so-hap...

This fantastic photographer caught me in a quiet moment at a dance club and bar in Lyon France on the final night of Quais Du Polar.
I think I was just ruminating on all the places words have taken me and how I get to take the ancestors with me...
Also I might be drunk lol 😆

My short review for the collection A BOOK TO LIVE BY: STORIES FROM A DIFFERENT WORLD by the great @meproctor.bsky.social
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C’mon, Man! Open yer eyes!

Any shoemaker worth their salt can and should pivot to AI. Amiright?

I just don’t know why they waited this long. Mo more Nike. Sure hope my broker takes my phone call so I can get in early. My whole 401K!

Have you really let over a week go by without grabbing one of the best flash fiction collections you'll read this year?

COYOTE GIRL by @sabrinahicks.bsky.social is yours for the having. Get it now from Cowboy Jamboree: www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/coyote-girl....

In case you missed it, new noir by @russellthayer10.bsky.social & @meproctor.bsky.social dropped earlier this week from CJ Press.

Get on board, we're going to Kansas City: www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/kansas-city-...

The M.E. Proctor episode is now out for your morning commute. Or whenever you'd like to listen to a fantastic writer discuss her craft. @meproctor.bsky.social

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Excited to announce I’ve got a new novel on the way in early 2027! Set over a single day around Thanksgiving 1991, HEAVY SUGAR is a screwball noir that pinballs from Throggs Neck to Gravesend. Thrilled I’m back with Nick Whitney at @sohopress.bsky.social.

Kansas City Breakdown KANSAS CITY BREAKDOWN by M.E. Proctor & Russell Thayer Order Here! (paperback and ebook available) ​ May 1952. Mobsters, molls, and muscle are meeting in Kansas City to carve out territory, make...

May 1952.

Mobsters, molls, and muscle are meeting in Kansas City to carve out territory, make deals, assert influence...

KANSAS CITY BREAKDOWN by @russellthayer10.bsky.social & @meproctor.bsky.social is here. Out now from CJ Press:
www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/kansas-city-...

Latest salvo in Wiener Circle’s campaign to challenge the symphony and art institute as Chicago’s most important cultural institution.

Tonight!!

Oh, Mr. Colgan.

Hey hey! My story, For When The Night Is Behind You And The Depths Are Ahead, is in the latest @3lobedmag.com anthology that came out yesterday!

If you’re looking for some weird dark speculative reads, this one is for you!!!

Did you ever know someone who
Is a) a loser; b) who you care about and try to lift up; and c) who undermines and punishes you for caring about them even as they want you to never stop trying?

If you’ve known this particular pain, then the new Willy Vlautin novel is for you.

POTW: Baseball Wives | Brooklyn Public Library Mrs. Jackie Robinson, 1952, Brooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History. On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier by playing on the field f...

Happy Jackie Robinson Day!
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MEMORY IS TIME: Like this taste? Read the entire story here, it's short: bit.ly/4dur6Ma Big thanks to Craig Terlson and PistolJimPress for pubbing! #sf #flashfiction

Kansas City Breakdown KANSAS CITY BREAKDOWN by M.E. Proctor & Russell Thayer Order Here! (paperback and ebook available) ​ May 1952. Mobsters, molls, and muscle are meeting in Kansas City to carve out territory, make...

Oh yeah: Happy Pub Day to KANSAS CITY BREAKDOWN. @meproctor.bsky.social and @russellthayer10.bsky.social are at it again, which means Tom Keegan and Gunselle are partnering up, again. This looks to be another great one, make sure to grab a copy.
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A big KC Congrats!! Whoop!

The book is out! "Kansas City Breakdown" is now available in eBook and paperback. www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/kansas-city-...
Published by @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social, co-written with @russellthayer10.bsky.social, cover by @frankvatel312.bsky.social

Wow. I am so sad. Huge condolences to his family and friends.

Congrats, so awesome - Rob - two whoops for you!
Whoop whoop!

Perfect pairing. You must be killer w wine and food.

There’d be some BIG tips.

BIGLY BIG.

You’ll never see anything like it anywhere.

Tell us how you really feel - whoop! 🙌