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The Roll Top Desk

M.E. Proctor

Book news, stuff about writing and story samples

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Latest Issues

Do Writers Practice Serial Monogamy?

It’s the first time I write a headline that looks like a Cosmo cover teaser.
They’re still around, by the way, $2.99. Is that cheap? The last Vogue, with Anna and Meryl on the cover, sells for $26, ouch. It’s a special issue because the A...

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Looking Inside

I occasionally write short stories in first person. Like here, the beginning of For Rosalie, With Love (published in the Myopic Duplicity anthology):

Twenty-one floors below, the street is relaxing into its night rhythm, sluggish with an...

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Announcement: Book Day for "Kansas City Breakdown"

I break my usual every-other-week posting rule, sorry for that! I won’t make it long …

Kansas City Breakdown is out and now available in eBook and Paperback. Co-written with Russell Thayer, published by Cowboy Jamboree Press (Good Grit Lit...

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Call it a Preview …

Kansas City Breakdown will be released in paperback and eBook on April 14 (Publisher: Cowboy Jamboree Press).

Pre-order eBook

Last Week Literary Garage (a wonderful online magazine) published a sample of the book. Many of you don’t read m...

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Frank Vatel and the Making of a Book Cover

Kansas City Breakdown will be released on April 14. Preorders are open!

Pre-Order here

Frank Vatel designed the cover of Bop City Swing, Book 1 of the Tom Keegan and Vivian Davis retro-noir series, published last year. Russell Thayer and...

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    M.E. Proctor is the author of the Declan Shaw series (Love You Till Tuesday and Catch Me on a Blue Day), two short story collections, and co-author of Bop City Swing and Kansas City Breakdown.

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