Merry Christmas

I’ve been working on the layout for Play Dead and have been having lots of fun with pips; hearts, diamonds, spades & clubs. I should have a draft pretty soon to send to Mike. We’ve also been working on setting up an interview for Jeffrey Thomas with Dark Discoveries magazine. We wanted set up as…

armwrestling Originally uploaded by earsphere722. brotherrabbit is my hero! He actually arm-wrestled this girl into buy his book. She was a great sport. The Whitemarsh event was a blast. We met lots of cool people and sold a bunch of books plus we left many signed copies at the store. So if you couldn’t make…

The proof for 100 Jolts came in the mail yesterday and it is electrifying. I couldn’t believe how great the colors came out. Seeing an actual book in print is so much different than dealing with the manuscript. The book is impossible to put down. Every time you open it up a story catches your…

Feo Amante reviews Horror Isn’t a 4-Letter Word “…I have to admit that Matthew is, at least in my mind, an undiscovered gem. His prose pulls you willingly and curiously through his books to the end…When friends are sitting around a table, talking about their week, Matthew is the one who can make his drudgery…

Another visit from the blurb fairy: Jeremy C. Shipp writes about horrible things in marvelous ways. SHEEP AND WOLVES is a compulsively readable collection (I read the sucker in three sittings) filled with resplendent moments of satire, gruesome contrivances, and some of the sharpest, funniest dialogue around. These stories had me cringing and laughing out…

The Nab Gets Posthumously Bizarroized This is a great bizarro rant written by Tom Bradley about self-referential mania and bizarro. I love reading stuff like this that is truly creative and combines history, fiction and modern literary commentary in a fun way.