Matthew Sylvester
publishing
Traditionally published authors are missing out on cash!
As a self-pubber and now a publisher of other people’s work, I’ve been an affiliate of Amazon for years. Even before I was a self-pubber I was running a website called Practical Martial Arts, which I first put up in 1996 (providing the inspiration for pretty much every other martial art that uses practical in … Continue reading
The genesis of a book cover – Blaise Maximillian: Emancipation REVEAL!
Due to attending local sci-fi events, I got talking to the wonderful and talented Marc Ducrow. I helped him out with some contacts and we kept talking over Facebook (such a wonderful tool). Then, when I was looking for a cover artist for Blaise Maximillian: Emancipation I asked him if he’d be able to take my … Continue reading
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
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
Blaise Maximillian is in the Amazon top 100!
And not of free books either! This is a cracking start! Thank you to everyone who has bought, and to everyone who will buy (BUY MY BOOK)! #61 in Kindle Store > Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Fantasy > Alternative History #73 in Books > Fiction > Fantasy > Alternative History
Matthew Sylvester 