Love You Till Tuesday (2024, Shotgun Honey Books) is the first novel in M.E. Proctor’s Declan Shaw PI series. Declan is based in Houston, where the author lived for twenty years. The second book, Catch Me on a Blue Day is scheduled for release in 2025, also from publisher Shotgun Honey.

M.E. Proctor is the author of a short story collection, Family and Other Ailments – Crime Stories Close to Home (2023, Wordwooze Publishing), the co-author of the retro-noir Bop City Swing (2025, Cowboy Jamboree Press, written with Russell Thayer), and four dystopian science fiction novels, The Savage Crown Series. She’s a Derringer nominee. Her fiction has appeared in various anthologies and magazines: Vautrin, Reckon Review, Mystery Tribune, Black Cat Weekly, Thriller Magazine, and Shotgun Honey among others. Even if she leans more toward crime fiction, she still enjoys an occasional foray into horror, fantasy, or science fiction.

Proctor was as a freelance journalist for a music magazine, and worked as an advertising account executive, before becoming a corporate communications advisor. She prefers writing fiction.

Born in Brussels, she now lives in Livingston, Texas, with her husband James Lee Proctor, also a writer. After all these years, she still counts in French and struggles with the Imperial system.