Matthew Sylvester
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And it just keeps coming!
Not quite sure why all of this is happening right now, but I’m certainly not complaining! So far – as you no doubt know – I have had a short story accepted for the Grimm and Grimmer anthology by Fringe Works, I’m submitting my Shattered Lands: Torquemaster Rising novel, and I’ve been asked to edit a … Continue reading
2013 – A great start to the year!
This year one of my New Year’s hopes – specifically not a resolution – was to find an agent and to be published. Many of you will know that I have been writing/editing a series of Steampunk books under the parent title of Shattered Lands. However, I spotted an open event on Facebook with the … Continue reading
Piracy – The right and the wrongs
I’ve just been following an excellent conversation between @Sarahpinborough and number of other tweeple. In it she linked to an article by @paul_cornell, http://www.paulcornell.com/2010/12/twelve-blogs-of-christmas-ten.html, in which he gives a number of good reasons as to why piracy is bad. I’ll leave it to you to form your own opinions, and it’s not up to me to … Continue reading
Funny how things happen
Well, some of you will remember that I created a submissions post where I stated that I was going to try my hardest to get published. One of the groups that I submitted to was Fringe Works for their Grimm and Grimmer Anthology. I haven’t heard back about that yet so, like an author with … Continue reading
Africans and the Zebra – Alternative History
Here’s a thought that has been bugging me for a while. Why did the Africans never domesticate the Zebra? Or the Elephant come to that? There are some fairly good reasons put forward as to why this did not happen. The main one is that in Africa, the cradle of humanity, humans and Zebras etc … Continue reading
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