The Roll Top Desk
M.E. ProctorBook news, stuff about writing and story samples
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A Conversation with Barbara Byar
A short bio, to start. Barbara Byar is an American writer who’s been living in Ireland for over twenty-five years. Her short story collection, Some Days Are Better Than Ours (Reflex Press) was short-listed for the Saboteur Awards. She was s...
Reading Series: Order or Chaos?
Inspiration for this post comes courtesy of Cold Caller Magazine (here on Substack, give them a read). They asked in a recent note if reading in chronological order mattered in a book series.
I’m a completist, so my answer ought to be: “Of...
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...
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...
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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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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