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Personal blog of Matt Mitchell, an author of modern-day fantasy and horror fiction.
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Little Brother
I just finished reading Little Brother, and like just about everyone else who’s read it, I loved it. There’s been a lot of commentary about this book, and I agree with most of what I’...
Modern-Day Mythica, Chapter Five: Hillock
There is a hidden place in Prague that is accessible only by the narrowest of concealed passages. It exists beyond the normal confines of time and space, and, despite its immediate relation to the anc...
Modern-Day Mythica, Chapter Four: Martin
When the sun began to set Joe drove over to the Jolly Roger, a restaurant/oyster bar on the beach that his uncle owned. A sign by the front door read: Lifeguard night Only on the Quarterdeck! Kegger s...
Modern-Day Mythica, Chapter Three: Griffin
A man crouched in an alleyway paved with centuries-old stone in Prague, deep in thought, absently chewing on the remains of a piece of rotting salt pork. The weather was wet with drizzle and the cloud...
Modern-Day Mythica, Chapter Two: Joe
He’d been sound asleep when he felt something like a hand touching the side of his face. It was slight and swift and then it was gone. His mind sprang to life, but his body stiffened, flushed with a...
Modern-Day Mythica, Chapter One: Gregg
In the Everglades a lot goes unnoticed by the general public. A lot goes on that even the avid observers of the swamp never get wind of, too. The swamp is a dangerous place, full of malaria, rot, and ...
Ebook
That Cory Doctorow is one smart cookie. And I realize I’m posting this right after I just said I don’t like to repetitiously cover content that Boing Boing has already put out there, but h...
Advent of the ebook
David Louis Edelman has written a great article about the life, and death, of the novel (in its current form). Very soon we’re going to have a medium for distributing the written word that’s not o...