Matthew Sylvester
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The responsibility of working on someone else’s novel
That’s what I’m currently doing. Or would be if I wasn’t writing this quick blog about how I’m working on someone’s work. That someone is Stewart Hotston, partner-in-crime with regard to Alternative Realities Publishing, and his work is A Family War, a hard sci-fi novel about which you can find out more by looking at his … Continue reading
The Castle of Horrow
My daughter has had some of her work published on this blog before. She took a bit of a hiatus from writing for some reason, but is now back on form. Below is a draft of a somewhat grimdark ‘love’ story. It’s a draft because unfortunately I probably won’t get to see the finished version, … Continue reading
Tom Clancy’s The Division: Agent Origins has me all fired up.
It’s not often that I get too excited about games, but Ubisoft has just well and truly smashed the ball out of the park with its latest trailer. This is full-on live action at its best and I only wish I had the game now, right now. Sleeper agents going up against sinister bin-men who … Continue reading
Our First Submissions Call
Originally posted on Alternative Realities:
This is our first submissions call. The two anthologies are Summer’s End and Broken Bones & Ten Dollar Bills Summer’s End is an anthology of fantastical stories that will be about the end of ages, civilisations, golden times that decline inexorably or suddenly. Think the fall of the men of…
New Year, new start
Which is really quite a pretentious title, but for a certain aspect of my life is most certainly true. A couple of years ago, I decided to singlehandedly launch a publishing business. Unfortunately I didn’t get the interest I needed and I was then ill from October 2015 through to still (only much, much less … Continue reading
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