Author: Matt

  • Untidy Lives, I Say to Myself

    February is a bleak month for me. I light a candle for Rochelle, now dead for nine years. On February 11 she would have been 71. On February 15, 1970 we were wed. And on February 14 is St. Valentine’s day, consumer mischief day. So February was a combination of…

  • The 2008 PODBRAM Awards and SubtleTea.Com Publication

    PODBRAM is a POD review site offering legitimate book reviews to deserving print on demand, self-published, and small and large press authors and their readers. The i Tetralogy has won for fiction. An essay I wrote on this blog was read by editor, David Herrle, of Subtletea and he requested…

  • A Remarkable Review by Mayra Calvani

    Mayra Calvani did an incisive interview with me some months back.  She also reviewed Down to a Sunless Sea quite favorably. Her site is darkphantom.com and she now freelances at Today.com. A novelist and reviewer, she is the recent author of a book on reviewing on blogs. I asked if…

  • Personal Posturings: Yahoos as Bloggers

    Before I begin this howl, I’ll define Yahoo as a lout, brute and coarse human being, the term itself derived from Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. I vaguely recall reading this fabulous book in the early years of college, thinking it was written for kids. Was I wrong! For the past year…