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Mark Westmoreland @itsmarkyall.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Dawn: Every time I drive past a retaining pond I wonder how many bodies are in there. Me: I do the same. Dawn: So I’m not weird? Me: Well, I write crime fiction. I don’t know what your problem is.

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Mark Westmoreland @itsmarkyall.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Peas are an abomination before God

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Mark Westmoreland @itsmarkyall.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I’m helping a customer at work while listening to an Allman Brothers show from 2012. Come and Go Blues starts playing and my customer says, “man, I’ve never heard Marcus King sound this heartbroken.” Me: This is the Allman Brothers. Customer: Oh, well, Gregg always sounded heartbroken.

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Mark Westmoreland @itsmarkyall.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Writing a book is fun. Editing a book is work.

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Mark Westmoreland @itsmarkyall.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

I rarely go to the theater anymore because the experience just isn’t worth how expensive it’s become but Dawn and I just walked out of PROJECT HAIL MARY and I’d pay to see that movie another two or three times. It’s that damn good.

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Mark Westmoreland @itsmarkyall.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Jimmy Buffett hits different in your 40s.

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Mark Westmoreland @itsmarkyall.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

“Don’t judge my grammar.” Ma’am, you’re talking to a writer not a copy editor. 😂

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Mark Westmoreland @itsmarkyall.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

HAPPINESS FALLS is the best piece of fiction I’ve read since NOTES ON AN EXECUTION. Run to the bookstore and grab it.

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Mark Westmoreland @itsmarkyall.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

I say I’m bad at math until I’m cutting words from a sentence because they have too many syllables and are messing with its rhythm.

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Mark Westmoreland @itsmarkyall.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Vacation #bookmail Props to Joe Brosnan for the recommendation

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Mark Westmoreland @itsmarkyall.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

When you learn to take kill your darlings seriously.

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Mark Westmoreland @itsmarkyall.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

THE DEATH OF SWEET MISTER is one of the top 3 most unsettling books I’ve read. Maybe THE most unsettling book I’ve read.

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Mark Westmoreland @itsmarkyall.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Everyone needs to read at least one book every year that leaves their heart shattered. A LESSON BEFORE DYING has me picking up all my pieces. A beautiful book. A devastating book.

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Mark Westmoreland @itsmarkyall.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Dawn and I have been watching HIS & HERS on Netflix. We’re three episodes in and so far it’s a pretty compelling murder mystery. My only nitpick with the show is that there’s nothing about Jon Beenthal that makes me believe he was born and raised in Dahlonega, Georgia.

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Mark Westmoreland @itsmarkyall.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

This book has one of the most satisfying endings I’ve read in a long long time. Favorite book of 2025.

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Mark Westmoreland @itsmarkyall.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

I always hear In Memory of Elizabeth Reed whenever I read A Rose For Emily

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Mark Westmoreland @itsmarkyall.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Dawn and I are leaving for vacation next week and I ain’t found the perfect vacation read yet. Any of y’all got suggestions?

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Mark Westmoreland @itsmarkyall.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Them: Where do you get your ideas? Me:

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Mark Westmoreland @itsmarkyall.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

This draft of LED TO SLAUGHTER is two scenes away from being done.

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Mark Westmoreland @itsmarkyall.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Over the past 8 years, Peanut has appeared in nearly everything I’ve written. For anyone keeping count, that’s 8 novels and 15-20 short stories. He’s a central figure in the Tugalo County universe but he’s never gotten his own POV chapter. Well… the big bastard finally talked me into giving him one.

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Mark Westmoreland @itsmarkyall.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Part 3 of LED TO SLAUGHTER is where God says, Let there be violence.

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Heather Levy 🌈 @heatherlevy.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Had a blast with my buddies @blacktopkid.bsky.social and @itsmarkyall.bsky.social at the wonderful Magic City Books in Tulsa today! These guys make my heart full and my gut achy as hell from laughing so much. Thank you for giving this ole gal life. 💜

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Mark Westmoreland @itsmarkyall.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Ya know, if Zuckerberg is gonna pirate my books he could at least have the decency to leave an Amazon review.

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Heather Levy 🌈 @heatherlevy.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Come see @blacktopkid.bsky.social, @itsmarkyall.bsky.social, and me next Saturday at Magic City Books! It’s going to be a fantastic time you don’t want to miss!

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Mark Westmoreland @itsmarkyall.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

A little daddy-daughter reading time last night.

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Mark Westmoreland @itsmarkyall.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Me: I’m not going to write any sex scenes for this book. Also me: I wonder how much sex I can fit in this one chapter

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Mark Westmoreland @itsmarkyall.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

“The downfall of American didn’t start when they took prayer out of schools. It started when they removed coffee grinders from the grocery store.”

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Chris Bucci @cbuccibookman.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Preorder I SEE YOU'VE CALLED IN DEAD by John Kenney (hardcover or ebook) at bn.com from 2/5 to 2/7 and get 25% off with code PREORDER25. Note, this discount is only available to B&N members but free memberships are available

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Mark Westmoreland @itsmarkyall.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Authors, if you see this, it's a sign to post the first line of your book. “A dead man stood at the center of the room.” (LED TO SLAUGHTER, current WIP, will hopefully be in my agent’s hands by February or March)

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Mark Westmoreland @itsmarkyall.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Half of my writing process is asking @browneallover.bsky.social and @jamesdfhannah.bsky.social to poke holes in my ideas only argue with them about why they’re wrong until I slowly come to realize that they’ve made some solid points and could be right. I’m a real pain the ass that way.

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Mark Westmoreland @itsmarkyall.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Yall come join the fun March 22nd when I’ll join @heatherlevy.bsky.social and @blacktopkid.bsky.social to talk murder at Magic City Books here in Tulsa. And for anyone wondering, Shawn and I have a handshake deal to not get drunk and talk about The Allman Brothers Band for the whole event.

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Mark Westmoreland @itsmarkyall.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Dawn: I thought you said you have a headache? Me: I do have a headache. Dawn: Then why are you drinking bourbon? Me: Because bourbon makes headaches go away.

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Mark Westmoreland @itsmarkyall.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Achieving any level of success in publishing has more to do with luck than merit. But you ain’t gone get lucky if you ain’t willing to make some sacrifices and do the work.

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Mark Westmoreland @itsmarkyall.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

I see you @bamawriter.bsky.social. For real though, if you don’t hijack inauguration coverage to complain to the whole damn country about your favorite college team getting left out of the playoffs then I question your dedication to said team.

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Mark Westmoreland @itsmarkyall.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

“Write hard and clear about what hurts.” —Ernest Hemingway

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Chris Bucci @cbuccibookman.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

One of Lit Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2025 One of Brit & Co’s Most Anticipated Books for 2025 One of Electric Lit's Most Anticipated Queer Books of Spring 2025 One of Crime Reads's Most Anticipated Books of 2025 One of BookBub's Best New Historical Fiction of January

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Mark Westmoreland @itsmarkyall.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I am not spending eternity on a damn Carnival cruise ship.

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Wes Browne @browneallover.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Thrilled for They All Fall the Same to be included among Book Riot Read or Dead’s six most anticipated books of 2025 and especially alongside S.A. Cosby’s King of Ashes as well as books by Stephen Graham Jones and Laila Lalami. Listen to Read or Dead here: bookriot.com/listen/most-...

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Mark Westmoreland @itsmarkyall.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Me: Hey, read this. It’s the most perfect run on sentence I’ve ever written. Dawn: Sorry, but you’re not fucking with my ADHD this early in the morning.

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Mark Westmoreland @itsmarkyall.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

A Violent Gospel with the photobomb.

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Mark Westmoreland @itsmarkyall.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

If there’s a better writer alive than Jesmyn Ward then I ain’t read them.

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Mark Westmoreland @itsmarkyall.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

A conversation every crime fiction/mystery author hopes to have with their literary agent: Agent: Can you make this murder scene even more Southern Gothic and creepy? Me: Absolutely. Agent: Like, can you go full True Detective, season 1? Me:

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