Matthew Sylvester
Musings
My wife, the editor
My wife, Karen, is crafty. Not in the sneaky sense, nor in the witchy sense, but in the “let’s make really cool things sense.” Being an active person, she’s not that much of a reader, she’d much rather be doing. Granted, she’ll read all the ‘how to’ books in the universe, and then go make cool … Continue reading
If you don’t ask, you don’t get
I’m new to the world of science fiction publishing, although I do have experience in the martial arts journalism side of things – check out my bio – and I seem to have used that to my advantage. As many of you will know, I’m the editor for Raus! Untoten! Recently I was at the Sci-Fi … Continue reading
Raus! Untoten! – Or, social media and how I became an editor
Facebook, social media as a whole is one of the most positive technological developments that I’ve seen so far. Granted, there are some absolute idiots on Facebook, unfortunately they actually mirror society. The amount of illiteracy, bigotry, hatred, stupidity, gullibility, hell, any ‘ity’ you can think of would be depressing if – like me – … Continue reading
Applications – They need to be Practical
When looking for applications in your patterns, it is important to always be critical. When you’re doing this from a Practical Taekwondo perspective, it’s vital that you also be practical. Take the picture below. Normally you see this sort of thing performed by people wearing doboks. I took it with us wearing street clothing to show just … Continue reading
And on another front – Kindle self-publishing
I have decided that I will try to self-publish a collection of Blaise Maximillian shorts. Regular readers will know that I wrote the majority of the Blaise stories as a way of practicing my flash fiction, and also to fill the time as I walked to and from work. However, I have decided that I … Continue reading
