Matthew Sylvester
steampunk
A change of direction, and a bit more focus
Those few of you that read this blog will know that I have one published martial arts book, a number of published and to be published short stories and one steampunk novel that is currently doing the rounds. Aside from those I also have a number of stories that have either been rejected, or that … Continue reading
Futuristic Steampunk Pirates – Rejected
This is a submission I wrote for Abaddon Books. Unfortunately it was rejected, but I’m cool with that. I wrote it specifically for Abaddon Books and I’m now wondering whether I should have used Blaise Maximillian or Shattered Lands instead. Anyway, I hope you enjoy it. Chapter 1 – The Beginning. Captain Brunel Challenger of the … 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
And the winners are!
A while ago I posted up that I had five chapters of my first Shattered Lands book up for comment. They proved to be to be very popular and got many views. Unfortunately, not many of the viewers actually commented. Which was the whole point as I was running a competition where a number of … Continue reading
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