Matthew Sylvester
publishing
Blaise Maximillian is now on GoodReads
I’ve finally started to work out how to use GoodReads and so I have been able to add Blaise Maximillian: Bitter Defeat to GoodReads. Please feel free to go along and comment on the discussions, add a review, and recommend it to your friends!
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
Happiness is sometimes being uncomfortable
True that. Sometimes, in order to be happy, you have to step outside of your comfort zone. Today, I did just that and started to work on the cover for a book I’ve decided that I will self-publish, hopefully on September 30th, my birthday. Why is this uncomfortable? Well, mostly because I’ve got the ‘only real … Continue reading
Submission, Rejection, Redemption
Recently, Abaddon Publishers had an open submissions window. The last one that I entered was about two years ago, and I put forward a sci-fi, futuristic steampunk Hornblower story. The idea and the world were sound, the character was suitably flawed, and the ship’s chaplain was a right bastard. In a good way. Unfortunately they … Continue reading
Awesome rejection – So near, yet so far!
Yes, you read that correctly, I’m happy to have had a rejection from a magazine that I highly respect and which has a stable of authors I’d love to be ranked amongst. They said that I could expect to wait 4-6 weeks for a reply. I waited less than a week and, instead of a pro-forma ‘No’, … Continue reading
Matthew Sylvester 