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C. Matthew Smith

@cmattwrite.bsky.social

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Old with wandering. Probably sore from it, too. Author of TWENTYMILE (“taut, page-turning”—Atlanta Journal-Constitution). THE ONES IN THE CORNER forthcoming from Winding Road Stories. www.cmattsmithwrites.com.

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C. Matthew Smith @cmattwrite.bsky.social · Nov 8

“TWENTYMILE is packed with everything I love: A strong, female character; a wilderness setting; gripping storytelling; masterful writing.” —Diane Les Becquets, author of BREAKING WILD

“a taut, page-turning thriller” —Atlanta Journal-Constitution

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Twentymile | Latah Books

Book Description When wildlife biologist Alex Lowe is found dead inside Great Smoky Mountains National Park, it looks on the surface like a suicide. But Tsula Walker, Special Agent with the National P...

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C. Matthew Smith @cmattwrite.bsky.social · 18h

Good lord, this game. We absolutely do not deserve to win, but Go Dawgs, I guess.

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Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social · 1d

This photo of Robert Bloch is the most writer photo to have ever writer photo’d. It is Pure Writer Photo.

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C. Matthew Smith @cmattwrite.bsky.social · 23h

Lowe’s must pay.

A bunch of very tall Christmas displays. It’s October 11.

C. Matthew Smith @cmattwrite.bsky.social · 1d

The local cost-plus grocery store just played Skrillex over the speakers followed by the Addams Family theme, and now I really need to meet the mind behind this playlist. Kroger would never.

C. Matthew Smith @cmattwrite.bsky.social · 1d

There’s no reforming this. I don’t want to hear anything from Dem candidates but plans for dismantling and holding people accountable.

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 1d

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Megan Abbott @meganabbott.bsky.social · 1d

“I never see my bad guys as simply bad. They want pretty much the same thing that you and I want: they want to be happy.”

HBD, the king himself, Elmore Leonard …

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C. Matthew Smith @cmattwrite.bsky.social · 1d

Post a film with an excellent soundtrack

C. Matthew Smith @cmattwrite.bsky.social · 1d

Without hesitation.

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 2d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

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C. Matthew Smith @cmattwrite.bsky.social · 2d

a man with a wig on his head is standing in front of trees and says `` lucky '' .

Alt: Napoleon Dynamite says, “Lucky.”

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C. Matthew Smith @cmattwrite.bsky.social · 2d

It’s impossible for me to overstate how excited I am for this film to finally get here. TRAIN DREAMS by Denis Johnson is maybe my favorite work of long-form fiction, and this adaptation looks gorgeous.

Train Dreams | Official Trailer | Netflix

YouTube video by Netflix

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C. Matthew Smith @cmattwrite.bsky.social · 2d

I sense a marketing opportunity. A whole line of inflatable suits strong enough to withstand pepper balls.

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C. Matthew Smith @cmattwrite.bsky.social · 2d

This can’t get here fast enough.

SACosby @blacktopkid.bsky.social · 3d

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Daniel Ezra and Andrea Cortés Latest to Join Joe Robert Cole's Netflix Adapation of 'All the Sinners Bleed' | Blex Media

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C. Matthew Smith @cmattwrite.bsky.social · 2d

“Engaging with their people” is one way to put it.

Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨ @kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 2d

This proclamation is batshit insane and i just want everyone to try to fathom, for one second, what is like being a Native person on their homeland with invaders and occupiers continuously spouting lies and threatening violence against those who defy it.

Also, this means we’re winning 💅🏽

The WHITE HOUSE
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
Today our Nation honors the legendary Christopher Columbus — the original American hero, a giant of Western civilization, and one of the most gallant and visionary men to ever walk the face of the earth. This Columbus Day, we honor his life with reverence and gratitude, and we pledge to reclaim his extraordinary legacy of faith, courage, perseverance, and virtue from the left-wing arsonists who have sought to destroy his name and dishonor his memory.

Just over 2 months later, on October 12, 1492, Columbus made landfall in the modern-day Bahamas. Upon his arrival, he planted a majestic cross in a mighty act of devotion, dedicating the land to God and setting in motion America's proud birthright of faith. Though he initially believed he had arrived in Asia, his discovery opened the vast frontier and untold splendors of the New World to Europe. He later ventured onward to Cuba and other islands in the Caribbean - exploring their coasts and engaging with their people.
Guided by steadfast prayer and unwavering fortitude and resolve, Columbus's journey carried thousands of years of wisdom, philosophy, reason, and culture across the Atlantic into the Americas — paving the way for the ultimate triumph of Western civilization less than three centuries later on July 4, 1776.

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Outrageously, in recent years, Christopher Columbus has been a prime target of a vicious and merciless campaign to erase our history, slander our heroes, and attack our heritage. Before our very eyes, left-wing radicals toppled his statues, vandalized his monuments, tarnished his character, and sought to exile him from our public spaces. Under my leadership, those days are finally over — and our Nation will now abide by a simple truth: Christopher Columbus was a true American hero, and every citizen is eternally indebted to his relentless determination.

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This Columbus Day, more than 500 years since Columbus arrived in the New World, we follow his example, we echo his resolve, and we offer our gratitude for his life of valor and grit. Above all, we commit to restoring a Nation that once again dares to tame the unknown, honors our rich cultural inheritance, and offers rightful praise to our Creator above.
In commemoration of Christopher Columbus's historic voyage, the Congress, by joint resolution of April 30, 1934, and modified in 1968 (36 U.S.C. 107), as amended, has requested the President proclaim the second Monday of October of each year as
"Columbus Day."

C. Matthew Smith @cmattwrite.bsky.social · 2d

They made a biopic. There are posters and t-shirts. Where has this person been living?

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C. Matthew Smith @cmattwrite.bsky.social · 2d

Man, it has been a minute since I hated a movie this much. Like, I want to figure out who told me this was good and declare them my mortal enemy hate.

Kind of invigorating, actually.

C. Matthew Smith @cmattwrite.bsky.social · 3d

“Send me back to where I was before
I knew how this felt.
Take me what I am, no more.
The devil's hiding in the Bible Belt.”

Cover of Ken Pomeroy’s album “Cruel Joke”

C. Matthew Smith @cmattwrite.bsky.social · 4d

Oh HELL yes.

NO OTHER CHOICE - Official Trailer - In Select Theaters December 25

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C. Matthew Smith @cmattwrite.bsky.social · 4d

I’m just saying, that dinosaur was FEELING it.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d

#WarRavagedPortland

C. Matthew Smith @cmattwrite.bsky.social · 4d

“He thought of Jenna and how they’d met at that crowded downtown party all those years ago, how those first few months together were like driving the fastest car ever built—only the car had no brakes or headlights, and the only way out was through the windshield.”

Cover of CW Blackwell’s collection WHATEVER KILLS THE PAIN

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C. Matthew Smith @cmattwrite.bsky.social · 4d

Lawyers in possession of client funds have to keep those funds in a separate account so they’re always there and not diminished by the law firm’s finances. I’d think a publisher who did the same—kept royalties separate from business accounts—would inspire an awful lot of confidence in their writers.

Beau Johnson 🇨🇦 🪓 @beaujohnson44.bsky.social · 5d

Do not buy my books from Amazon or Down and Out Books directly. I will not get paid. I should get paid, as per my contract, but in an email from D&O I’ve been told ‘no further payments will be issued.’
It absolutely blows it is ending this way, but man, pay your authors what they are owed.

C. Matthew Smith @cmattwrite.bsky.social · 5d

I was in one of the Mickey Finn volumes and hate to think of all the anthologies that now won’t be put out.

C. Matthew Smith @cmattwrite.bsky.social · 5d

Polis before that. The indie options are shrinking.

C. Matthew Smith @cmattwrite.bsky.social · 5d

As a writer and lover of crime fiction, this makes me very sad. Support your small presses, people.

Notice from Down & Out Books of its imminent closure.

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Rock and a Hard Place @rhppress.bsky.social · 6d

The past clings to us, but only if we let it. Don't miss October's STONE'S THROW story "Like Silver" by Derek Alan Jones. Read it here: bit.ly/4gUnanB

ST3.10 | "Like Silver" — Rock and a Hard Place Press

Sometimes, we're trapped by the memories of our past loved ones. Sometimes they get trapped too.

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C. Matthew Smith @cmattwrite.bsky.social · 6d

I did not think there was a team I despised more than the Florida Gators, but the noise I made when I saw this score says otherwise. #GoDawgs