Author: Matt

  • Tell It All The Tyranny of Mormonism, Mrs. T.B.H. Stenhouse

    Recently I read Fawn Brodie’s biography of the charismatic charlatan and all around creep, Joseph Smith, founder of the cult religion, Mormonism. The book came out in the early seventies and is a bit stodgy; however, it is backed up with solid historical matter, for Brodie was a historian of some…

  • Query Letter for The i Tetralogy (Updated)

    Dear Editor: I am querying you as to a possible review of The i Tetralogy. The i Tetralogy  is a fictionalized account of the devastating effects of the Holocaust. The culmination of four decades of reflection and introspection, my therapeutic work with Holocaust survivors, and my own experience as an…

  • Query Letter for Gruffworld

    Although the book was not accepted for publication, I believe the query got me read. The credits at the end are omitted. If I were to try to get it reviewed on a blog or ezine, I might very well use the same language, with adjustments here and there and…

  • Three Engines Leaving the Station

    I have been away from blogging because I am completing three works, a short story collection, a book of essays and an extended memoir/reminiscence about my long-distant relationship as a reader and student of Krishnamurti, the spiritual teacher. After a rather negative experience with Red Willow Digital Press (stay away!)…