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Bobby Mathews

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5 months

My brother died this morning. Massive heart attack. We were basically estranged because of a great many of his life choices, but I’m still stunned and incredibly sad we never got the chance to reconcile.

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11 months

I see "defund PBS" is trending, which means the stupids have crawled out of bed.

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4 months

Dad has passed.

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Bobby Mathews

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12 days

AAAAAAAAAH! I can now share that my story, "The Funeral Suit," has been selected for 2024 BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY & SUSPENSE!!!! My first time being selected to #BAMS !!!!!

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Bobby Mathews

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1 year

Good morning. My story “negative tilt” has been named a finalist for Derringer Award. Incredibly pleased, because that story is probably the best thing I have ever written.

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Bobby Mathews

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4 months

It’s not going to be long now. Dad’s fight is almost over.

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Bobby Mathews

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5 months

3 years ago I went back to writing seriously, with an eye to publication. Since then: 30 short stories published or under contract; 4 book deals; 2 novels published; short story collection forthcoming; Derringer Award; 2 Pushcart nominations.

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5 months

Dad has chosen to enter hospice care. I probably won’t be much good for anything for a while.

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Bobby Mathews

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4 months

Absolutely heartbroken.

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Bobby Mathews

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1 year

Last night, I had to convince myself that "Negative Tilt" had no shot of winning the 2023 Derringer Award for Long Story ... it was the only way I could get to sleep, because I am a goober & obsess about stuff. Woke up to find out I won the damn thing! Absolutely overjoyed.

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5 months

@NorthernSnowdog I will.

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Bobby Mathews

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5 months

Man, I know that for some folks a $500 Christmas bonus isn't a lot. But let me tell you: It beats the absolute shit outta the $8 Hickory Farms box that was our Xmas "bonus" at my last job.

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Bobby Mathews

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4 months

A small moment of humor last night. The funeral home worker who picked up Dad's body wanted to make sure we wanted him to keep his mustache. My response: If you tried to shave it off, he'd probably wake up and fight you. God, I'm gonna miss him.

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Bobby Mathews

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3 years

INCREDIBLY PLEASED to say I'm officially a @ShotgunHoney author. @RonEarl just sent me contracts for both Magic City Blues AND Living the Gimmick. I'm BEYOND pumped, y'all. So pleased to be with what I consider the top indie crime publisher. #amwriting #noir #CrimeFiction

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Bobby Mathews

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2 years

Hey, I sold 10 copies of my book in person today. That’s kind of cool.

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Bobby Mathews

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2 years

Did I ever tell you guys that I used to work at a salt-and-pepper factory? It was seasonal work.

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9 months

Oh, hey … Derringer Award!

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Bobby Mathews

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1 year

Tell me who's "grooming" again? Hint: It ain't trans folks, drag queens, or gay folks.

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1 year

An Illinois christian school teacher & choir director of a christian church has been arrested for felony possession of child sexual abuse materials.

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Bobby Mathews

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5 months

The Cait Corrian thing is just mind-blowing. All she had to do was not act racist. (Not even 'not be racist' — the bar is LOW for white authors.) And yet she couldn't even do that. That is some serious self-sabotage right there.

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Bobby Mathews

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3 months

Woke up this morning thinking about the multiple people who told me I couldn't. That I wouldn't. That I didn't have enough talent or drive or whatever-it-is that makes a writer "special." My next book is out on March 27. Run tell that.

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Bobby Mathews

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2 years

Writer friends: Jealousy kills your soul. There'll always be someone farther along the road: a higher-tiered mag acceptance, a bigger publisher, more money, more award noms. Work on your art. Cheer others on. Seething with bitterness doesn't do you or anyone else any good.

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Bobby Mathews

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2 years

The fact that a NYT bestseller is punching down at a reviewer with at most HALF of her audience, and other big "queer" accounts have begun piling on is absolutely disgusting. I stand with Ana.

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Bobby Mathews

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1 year

It could be worse, I mutter to myself. It could be drugs.

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Bobby Mathews

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2 years

I’ve made a terrible mistake.

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Bobby Mathews

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5 months

I’m highly pleased.

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Bobby Mathews

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4 months

Ink therapy. Made me feel some thing other than dead inside.

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Bobby Mathews

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4 months

Latest review of MAGIC CITY BLUES. I don't mind 1-star reviews from people like this. But I gotta tell ya: She ain't seen nothin' yet.

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Bobby Mathews

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2 years

I have a first-draft copy of @blacklionking73 's forthcoming ALL THE SINNERS BLEED, and it is just as phenomenal as I expected it to be. Y'all be jealous.

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Bobby Mathews

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8 months

Incredibly meaningful to me to be able to be with my dad while he fights this battle.

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Bobby Mathews

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1 year

I'm meeting with a couple of agents tomorrow. No, I'm not nervous. Why do you ask?

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6 months

Today marks one year since my mom passed. I’m still heartbroken.

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Bobby Mathews

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5 months

The first draft of TRUE BELIEVERS is ***DONE*** -302 pages -89,601 words It's flawed. It's ugly in some places. But it. is. fucking. DONE.

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Bobby Mathews

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8 months

Well ... just sent the first 50 pages of TRUE BELIEVERS to an agent, who requested them when we talked at #bouchercon2023 ... Guess I actually gotta finish this book, huh?

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1 year

💯 here … I’m tearing up in this photo. Words of wisdom & kindness from @blacklionking73 … and @JamesDFHannah caught it on camera.

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Bobby Mathews

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6 months

If you’re the praying type — even if you’re not — send some good vibes my Dad’s way. His BP & oxygen both crashed this morning. Being taken to ER by ambulance now.

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6 months

Stop. Read. Believe.

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4 months

Many years ago, my mom wanted to learn how to play the banjo. My dad built her one. It is ancient and smoke damaged and the face needs to be completely replaced. But it’s really cool to hold something of my dad‘s in my hands, and to know how much it meant to my mom.

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Bobby Mathews

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2 years

Nice way to cap off the evening. Good bourbon, good cigar. Happy 51st to me.

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Bobby Mathews

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3 months

All right, folks ... I've kept you in suspense long enough. Here's the cover for NEGATIVE TILT: Stories! @RonEarl knocked it out of the park ... again!

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Bobby Mathews

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3 months

Responded to an agent's full request today. I'm not nervous. Nope, not me.

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Bobby Mathews

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2 years

Cute photos of my boys banging away at one of my typewriters, right? My brother didn’t think so. 🙄🙄🙄

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Bobby Mathews

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3 months

Treat your fellow writers — even the ones who haven't published yet — with generosity and grace. You won't regret it.

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Bobby Mathews

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23 days

Down 29.6 pounds. Close enough to call it 30.

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Bobby Mathews

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3 months

We might be having an OK time. @blacklionking73 @JamesDFHannah @Kirstyn_Petras

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Bobby Mathews

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4 months

Really missing my Dad this morning.

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Bobby Mathews

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3 months

These folks. Man, I live a charmed life. @blacklionking73 @WandaMo14 @JamesDFHannah

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Bobby Mathews

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11 months

Former sports journo here: The pressure that Dads — it's almost always Dads — put on their kids to be "great" at such an early age will always be detrimental to the kid's mental health, and potentially to their physical well-being.

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11 months

From @TheAthletic : Baby Gronk is a 10-year-old whose father is pitching him as the next big thing in college football. “He’s a real athlete. He’s not a normal kid,” his father told us. “He has been trained and programmed since he was 6 years old.”

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Bobby Mathews

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1 year

Some publishing news: LIVING THE GIMMICK won 1st place for novel from the Alabama Media Professionals, and ‘The Ghost of Buxahatchee Creek’ won first place for short story.

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Bobby Mathews

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2 years

"Don't send us anything political, this is an outlaw country anthology!" Said the "editors" who have clearly never listened to Man in Black (Johnny Cash), Don't Let the Bastards Get You Down (Kris Kristofferson), Vote 'Em Out (Willie Nelson), America (Waylon Jennings) ...

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Bobby Mathews

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1 year

Happy birthday weekend to me.

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Bobby Mathews

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26 days

Sometimes you get an email that knocks the breath out of you in a good way. You rock back with its impact and let it settle over you, and you don't know whether to smile or cry or both. Holy shit, indeed.

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Bobby Mathews

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2 years

Here's a dose of good news from the ICU: Mom had a good night last night and is in good spirits this morning. If she continues to improve, she could be moved to a regular room later today.

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Bobby Mathews

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4 months

Got a decent night's sleep for the first time days. Hard days ahead, but I'm still here.

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Bobby Mathews

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1 month

I'm trying to be a better person, so I'm just going to point out the account has 157 followers, & is hoping for engagement. Other than that, his advice is bad. 'Y'all' is a damned fine word, and what's more, it's inclusive language.

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Bobby Mathews

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5 months

@HannahM_Writes Like I always told my kids: You get what you get and you don't pitch a fit.

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Bobby Mathews

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1 year

Folks bought my book today at my reading! Yaaaaaay!

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Bobby Mathews

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2 months

I've sent out queries to 3 agents for my latest book, and 2/3 have requested fulls so far. The waiting game is maddening. At least I've got some good people to share that time with.

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Bobby Mathews

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3 years

I'm THE WORST at sitting on news, so I'm gonna share. My story, 'Trap House' made it into @RHPMag 's 'Under the Thumb: Stories of Police Oppression' anthology to be released later this year. I am over the moon about this one.

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Bobby Mathews

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4 months

Yet another funeral. Just gotta get through today.

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Bobby Mathews

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1 year

Came to a local coffee shop to write. Got recognized by someone that I ... don't know. They wanted to let me know that they loved MAGIC CITY BLUES. It is weird to say that I have fans, but that is apparently a thing now???

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Bobby Mathews

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2 months

Down 22 pounds. More to come, I hope.

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Bobby Mathews

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3 months

The boys & I broke down the big dining table & started creating a library room this morning. Beyond happy with it. But man, I gotta organize these shelves.

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Bobby Mathews

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2 years

I don't really have a point about all of this. I just wanted to mention my cousin, who cost me an appendage and maybe — just maybe — altered the course of my life in a way that none of us ever knew. Wherever you are, Keith, I hope you can rest easy. /Fin.

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Bobby Mathews

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1 year

The GOAT & me. I can’t tell you how much this dude’s friendship means.

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Bobby Mathews

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1 year

Thursday afternoon, my Dad let me know that the funeral home had finally put a marker on Mom's grave. Then early on Friday morning, my Mom visited me in a dream to let me know that she was all right. And y'all, she was walking (something she hadn't been able to do in YEARS.)

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Bobby Mathews

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1 month

The phenomenal @meganeabbott … and some other people.

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Bobby Mathews

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20 days

Yeah, I’ve lost some weight.

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Bobby Mathews

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5 months

Within all of the chaos of my personal life the last few months, weeks, and days, I have still managed to finish the first draft of a novel, and I'm working on finishing the MS that was due to my publisher like two weeks ago. I'm a glutton for punishment.

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Bobby Mathews

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1 month

Down 23 pounds. Progress, not perfection.

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Bobby Mathews

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2 years

I am in two Anthony-nominated anthologies! Under the Thumb: Stories of Police Oppression, and Trouble No More. That's pretty cool.

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Bobby Mathews

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2 years

The hospice folks come today. I know in my rational mind that mom needs this level of care. I hear when they tell me this doesn't have to be a death watch. But I see her lying in the hospital bed, all but helpless. My lizard brain knows.

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Bobby Mathews

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1 month

24 pounds down.

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Bobby Mathews

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1 year

Just got back from visiting with my Dad ... went by mom's grave before I left my hometown to come back to Bham Just being straightforward with y'all ... I'm decidedly *not* doing well with the grief.

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Bobby Mathews

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2 years

Guess who got up and wrote for two hours this morning? I mean, it wasn't me, but I'm sure someone somewhere did. The lucky asshole.

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Bobby Mathews

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5 months

Dad is having a really good day. He is much more himself, and more aware, and able to have conversations. For the last four days, he has essentially been on another planet. This is really encouraging. Probably just an Indian summer, but still.

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Bobby Mathews

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3 months

Gathered up some of the red clay from the road I grew up on. Are used to not think I was a southern writer. I even ran from it for a long time. But this stuff is in my skin and in my bones. This road made me who I am.

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Bobby Mathews

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3 months

I'm just bowled over by "I let AI write my books!" crowd. Even if my books sucked (they don't), they're MY books. I worked. I sweated. In some cases, I bled for them. Publishing is already full of soulless pap. Why the fuck would you want to add to that?

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Bobby Mathews

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2 months

This tired guy is down 18 pounds.

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Bobby Mathews

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2 years

Here we are. IT'S PUBLICATION DAY!!! LIVING THE GIMMICK is out NOW from @ShotgunHoney Books. Order a copy here: or via Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or your favorite indie bookstore!

Living the Gimmick by Bobby Mathews

When retired pro wrestler Alex Donovan sees his best friend, former world champion ‘The Wild Child’ Ray Wilder, gunned down in the street, he’s drawn back into a world of spandex, spangles, and spo…

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Bobby Mathews

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6 months

A lot of you guys know that I am in a really tough season of life right now. I bought this ring to remind myself: “KEEP FUCKING GOING.”

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Bobby Mathews

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2 years

To complicate things: Today is mom's birthday. She's 78. I don't want to think about the idea that it'll most likely be her last one. I want to hope for a miraculous recovery. Hard days, man.

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Bobby Mathews

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2 years

I have no idea who this person is, but I am INCREDIBLY honored by this review.

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Bobby Mathews

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11 months

CHAMPS!!!

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Bobby Mathews

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9 months

So some of you have noticed that last week I was alluding to some things going on in my personal life. Now that family has been informed, I can share: My Dad has lung cancer & the doctors believe it's incurable. Treatment may delay things, but there's no guarantee of even that.

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Bobby Mathews

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2 years

So ... mom's being moved into hospice care.

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Bobby Mathews

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2 years

Them: "You should keep 'wokeness' out of your writing." Me: My pro wrestling murder-mystery incorporates elements of the Me Too movement, has LGBTQ+ characters, AND it goes harder than your wannabe Bukowski-lite. GTFOH. (I am FIESTY today.)

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Bobby Mathews

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2 years

Oh God.

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Bobby Mathews

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10 months

Look, this is southern potato salad: yellow gold potatoes, peeled; salt and pepper to taste; boiled eggs (I don’t even eat eggs) pickle relish, finely chopped white onion, mayo, and mustard, ina nearly even mix. Top with smoked paprika.

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Bobby Mathews

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2 months

Wanna know what being a writer is like? On the same day your lauded short story collection is released, you receive a rejection. Temper your expectations, kids.

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Bobby Mathews

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1 year

I knew the firs Mother’s Day without my mom was gonna be hard. Just gonna keep my head down and survive it. Here he is in happier times, giving one of our bulldogs a ride on her scooter. Love and miss you, Mom.

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Bobby Mathews

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1 year

I’m going to take a mental health break from social media for a bit. See y’all on the flip side.

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Bobby Mathews

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1 month

Pretty nice haul from my local bookstore’s penny-a-page sale yesterday.

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Bobby Mathews

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5 months

Christmas Eve is special in my family. We gather at my parents' house to eat dinner together/exchange gifts, go look at Christmas lights & celebrate the gentle, peaceful feeling of the holiday. I hope that you and yours, no matter what—or if—you celebrate, have a lovely day.

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Bobby Mathews

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1 month

Happy 13th birthday, kid. You’re so loved.

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Bobby Mathews

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2 years

Mom will be released from the ICU later today, headed to an inpatient physical rehab program where she will hopefully regain some strength. It's a definite step forward from where and how she's been the last several days.

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Bobby Mathews

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2 years

I have apparently won 5 (!!!!!) awards in the Alabama Press Association's Better Newspaper Contest. As always, the only way that I can do that is because I get to cover some extraordinary young people in my newspaper's coverage area.

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Bobby Mathews

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4 months

First time I've ever seen my work in the same list as @StephenKing ... what a surreal Monday.

Best P.I. Novels Of This Millennium?

The Preliminary List Okay, so in January 2024, a discussion broke out on Rara-Avis about how, essentially, they don’t write ’em like they used to. Of course they were talking about the …

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