Matthew Sylvester
short stories
The ability to write is like a knife’s blade
The ability to write, and write as well as you can, is like a knife’s blade. If you don’t sharpen a knife’s blade, it will eventually become dull, and then blunt, and the same happens with writing. If you want to be a writer, you have to actually write. I know, it’s an amazing fact … Continue reading
Two Pistols Pariah and his adventures on the Merry Sue
A bit of background. Every night my youngest asks me “What should I dream about?” For the last four years or so, I’ve come up with a dream for her. Most of the dreams centre around the world of Faraway, something that I created for my eldest 8 years ago, and which involves, Gnomes, all … 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
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
Matthew Sylvester 