Matthew Sylvester
Archive for
Happiness is finding old friends …
and seeing just how successful they have been in the years you’ve missed. I once had quite a good friend that I met through martial arts. We shared a lot of ideas, and I consulted on a system that he was developing at the time, and then he just disappeared. He closed his account on … Continue reading
Happiness is finishing the first draft of your book
It’s quite simple really. A number of the stories in my forthcoming book were written four or even five years ago as I trudged to, and back from, work. they were experiments to see how quickly I could write a story that could engage the reader, let them see a different world, and leave them … Continue reading
Blaise Maximillian now has a Facebook presence
As many of my more dedicated readers will know, I’m working on a self-published title, featuring the amazing Blaise Maximillian. It’s an anthology of short stories set in dystopian diesel punk universe, where King George V is in exile, his daughter Mary is a puppet queen, and German soldiers are ensuring that the British never, ever … Continue reading
Blaise Maximillian comes many steps closer to being ready for editing
Ever since I let people know that I was going to self-publish a collection of Blaise Maximillian stories, I’ve been spending many nights staying up far too long writing. And I’m bloody loving it. Blaise is my kind of anti-hero, which is one reason why I’m enjoying it, but also because I’m able to do … Continue reading
Cover artists earn every single fucking penny
Seriously, if you can afford a cover artist, as in a real person that is a real artist, pay them. I have been attempting to create a cover for my upcoming, self-published collection of Blaise Maximillian short stories. And it is hard. Very. Damn. Hard. So hard – and has resulted in covers that I can only … Continue reading
Matthew Sylvester 