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Victor De Anda
@victordeanda.bsky.social
Author with stories in BAMS 2025, Dark Yonder, Myopic Duplicity, Shotgun Honey, Mystery Tribune, and more. Crime fiction, Speculative, Weird.
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Honored to remind you that my story BAD MAN DOWN pubbed by The Yard: Crime Blog has made it into BAMS 2025 edited by @stephcha.bsky.social & @donwinslow.bsky.social from
@marinerbooks.bsky.social
Preorder your copy today: bit.ly/4drzg5P
Thankful for all my writer, reader and publisher friends. Grateful for your support. Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate.
a man wearing a hat and sunglasses is standing in front of a rock wall
ALT: a man wearing a hat and sunglasses is standing in front of a rock wall
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November 28, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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THE INTRIGUE is now up at Netgalley, you can request an ARC there. This noir with a classic vibe is out July 2026.
www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...
PS: Still on hiatus, just posting and going back to my social media blackout.
November 26, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Remembering Charles Schulz on his birthday 🎂
📷 Ted Streshinsky

"All the loves in the strip are unrequited; all the baseball games are lost; all the test scores are D-minuses; the Great Pumpkin never comes; and the football is always pulled away."
- Sparky

Bleak, but fair.
November 26, 2025 at 6:26 PM
"...very little if anything we write can truly be original, but the one original thing we get to bring to the table is ourselves." Great post from Chuck here, check it out!
So I got to attend a Q&A with Tom Morello (guitar legend of RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE fame), and from him I heard a very smart creative lesson, applicable to more than just musicians -- thought I'd share it, and some further thoughts and stories here:
A Very Good Piece Of Creative Advice From Tom Morello
As a cantankerous alt-rock grunge-loving teenager, I was not particularly a Rage Against the Machine guy — I mean, I liked the music but it didn’t connect with me, and my theory now as …
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November 26, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Like a lot of you, hopefully, I'll be spending a lot less with huge corporations during the economic blackout that's covering Black Friday and Cyber Monday.

So here's a couple of good ways to buy my 1984-set high school crime novel THAT OCTOBER from other than the usual suspects. (more)
November 26, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Gracious words from @deliapitts50.bsky.social regarding my story "Bad Man Down" in BAMS'25. 20 great authors. Makes a fine stocking stuffer for the mystery/thriller fan in your life: bit.ly/4drzg5P
November 26, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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A reminder: For the Holidays, your friends and families want books. Buy them books. If you aren't sure which book to get them, buy them more books. People want books!
My family has been calling me a luddite for years, & I’ve never felt better about that moniker than I do now, after a cities conference highlighting AI data centers & a new push for more surveillance downtown. We don’t have to participate. This year, shop in local stores, buy actual books. 📚🎄🕎
Christmas is coming, and the Black Friday sales signal we’re in peak gift-buying season.

When you’re picking out gifts for friends and family this year, there’s a whole slew of tech products that are better to avoid. I put together a guide to help you through it.
November 26, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Black Friday cosmic horror! Only 99 cents for the story of Serling and Price, con artists who buy and sell haunted houses. Of course, they unleash something hungry and thoroughly pissed off…

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November 26, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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November 25, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Big business isn't your friend. But you knew that, didn't you? Read the full story: bit.ly/4prHwIH
Big thanks to Cody Sexton at A Thin Slice of Anxiety for pubbing.
November 25, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Big thanks to @todgoldberg.bsky.social for his kind words on my story "Bad Man Down" in BAMS'25. Honored to be part of this great ToC, including Tod! Get your copy today: bit.ly/4drzg5P
November 24, 2025 at 1:10 PM
The man.
HBD, the late, great Robert Towne ...
November 23, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Thanks, Gabino!
Pyres is the searing inferno of a book people need to keep warm as the cold weather draws in.

Come for the grotesque art made manifest, stay for the right wing scumbags being incinerated 🔥🔥
Books2read.com/pyresnovel
November 21, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Happy #FridayReads! Darcroft Island, my cosmic crime noir novel available in paperback and ebook. Get the bundle and save 40% for a signed copy and bookmark. darkgodspress.com/books/
November 21, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Thanks, Gabino!
If anyone is in the NYC area we have an infie book fair happening on Saturday, with a reading the following night! Invest in some physical medka!
November 21, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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My forthcoming speculative short story collection is up for pre-order. There's monsters, outer space, pie, and more!
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Every Galaxy a Circle
Check out Every Galaxy a Circle - <p>An Intriguing Journey through the Cosmos of Human Experience</p><p></p><p>In <em>Every Galaxy a Circle</em>, Chloe N. Clark masterfully intertwines memories, ghost...
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November 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Thanks, Gabino! Four Weddings and a Funeral Director is a very silly, very weird romcom that channels the Barbie X Goth House meme. 💍 🪦

It's currently just 99p on the UK Amazon store: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DK8L8BHV.

Also, the print version is half price on the TikTok store!
November 21, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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As always, thanks, Gabino!

#Novellavember will be wrapping up soon, and I know some of you are still looking for new books to round out the month.

Want a bittersweet love story? Or an ineffable space horror? Maybe both?
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November 21, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Thanks, Gabino! My weird, Twin Peaks X House of Leaves novel is finally out in the world and wants to take up space in your brain.

diachroneitybooks.com/Imperfect-Cr...
November 21, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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What does 99 cents get ya? How about a murder mystery with ghosts, monsters, and dueling serial killers?!

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Apartment 239
Amazon.com: Apartment 239 eBook : Alley, Elford : Books
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November 21, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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The very first fiction I ever had accepted for publication was selected/edited by Gordon Lish in 1995. Yes, *that* Gordon Lish. Here's the story/the story behind the story, which includes details about the famous editor's edits and how I learned that an acceptance does not always mean publication.
The story of a story: “The Stacker”
First, the story, then the story behind the story. The Stacker by Scott Stein The stack was developing as a sort of snowflake, with a symmetry as unconventional
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November 21, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Thanks Gabino!
Noise Ordinance is currently #4,336,469 in Books on Kindle.
Let's see if I can't break into the coveted #4,000,000 club! 🖤

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Noise Ordinance
Noise Ordinance [Phillips, Kurt] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Noise Ordinance
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November 21, 2025 at 3:41 PM