I have a couple of friends from middle school whose houses I was at a lot as a kid. Later in life, I always thought it was a little odd — in the best possible way! — how nice those friends’ parents were to me, both while I was at their houses a lot and… Continue reading Happy to be here
Author: Matt
Work week 2023-01-30
Maker: Finish newsletter Manager: Continue transcribing HEATSTROKE HEARTBEAT; research Kobo promotions. Marketer: Ideate a promo stack; send out newsletter; maybe a couple of small blog posts? Last week we were a sick house, and we’re still not quite over it. Trying to take it slow for a little longer. Photo is a magnolia bud on… Continue reading Work week 2023-01-30
The enfloofification of TikTok
As a human who’s never done more than beer money from fiction sales, I’m not here to tell anyone to quit something that’s working, but I think this article ought to give some pause both to all the folks who are hoping to kill it on #BookTok and those who’ve actually succeeded. Social media platforms… Continue reading The enfloofification of TikTok
WINDBURN WHIPLASH available for preorder!
It’s been six years since Zaya Shearwater lost her wife and her dragon in the most dangerous race in Yemareir. She’s retired from the dragon-racing circuit, supporting her family as a security guard on long-haul trade expeditions… until she comes back one night to discover that her newly adopted daughter, Vanako, has been dealing for… Continue reading WINDBURN WHIPLASH available for preorder!
Work week 2023-01-23
Maker: Figure out January newsletter content Manager: Continue transcription of HEATSTROKE HEARTBEAT Marketer: WINDBURN WHIPLASH to socials and blog for real this week, you god-damned animal Today’s featured image is a drawing my 11-year-old daughter made when she discovered her Kobo is apparently also an Etch-a-Sketch? Recently watched: THE RENTAL, dir. Dave Franco. I might… Continue reading Work week 2023-01-23
Post-holiday TBR
Two rereads, one stalled book, three gifts, and an acquisition. I’m especially excited about SHE EATS THE NIGHT; I had no idea Liu & Takeda were doing a collaboration other than MONSTRESS! (Which continues, IMO, to be the best epic fantasy currently being produced in any medium.) Thanks to Fantom Comics in DC for the… Continue reading Post-holiday TBR
An alternative Levittown
Here’s an experience for you: I’m on a train from Trenton to DC. This travels the same track as my old commute from Trenton to Philadelphia, but after a minute I realized I wasn’t seeing the same things: some marshy areas with nothing but bare trees and a few birds of prey, the backs of… Continue reading An alternative Levittown
Work week 2023-01-17
Maker: NA Manager: Transcribe HEATSTROKE HEARTBEAT to end of manuscript; if done, decide on fate of SNOWDRIFT STARLIGHT plotline Marketer: Couple of blog posts; WINDBURN WHIPLASH preorder to socials. (Sometimes it helps me to have notes on my intentions, so I can at least know I’m doing what I’m not supposed to be doing. Format… Continue reading Work week 2023-01-17
The wicked flee when none pursueth
Tom King and Bilquis Evely’s SUPERGIRL: WOMAN OF TOMORROW wears its TRUE GRIT conceit lightly, which serves it just as well; Supergirl was never going to be a particularly credible stand-in for Rooster Cogburn, and King doesn’t try to force it. Instead, he lets the book be about a friendship between a young woman and… Continue reading The wicked flee when none pursueth
The Nona maneuver
Just marking this as the day it occurred to me that the Streets of Flame Quartet may need to become a quintet. This all relies on very, very raw turns of events in HEATSTROKE HEARTBEAT, which only exist in my head and a notebook, so all of this is highly abstract and none is guaranteed.… Continue reading The Nona maneuver