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Walmart Partners with Rakuten Kobo, Launches Walmart Ebooks

Posted on August 23, 2018 by AE MatsonAugust 23, 2018

If you were wondering what megacorporate titan was positioning itself to go head-to-head with Amazon’s Prime offerings, well, it looks like that will be Walmart, Inc. Earlier this year, Walmart and Rakuten Kobo announced a partnership to offer a variety of … Continue reading →

Zen and the Art of the Arc

Posted on August 13, 2018 by AE MatsonAugust 18, 2018

This is not another post on how writers craft stories. I’d apologize, but my best estimate is that there are sixty-three hojillion posts about that on the internet right now, and a half-assed search engine is capable of turning every … Continue reading →

New from NBM Publishing: “Colette” Coming to Theaters in September

Posted on August 2, 2018 by AE MatsonAugust 18, 2018

This week, we learned that one installment in NBM Graphic Novels’ biography series “The Provocative Colette” has been made into a feature film starring Keira Knightly and is to premiere in theaters on September 21st. Congratulations to them and to Bleeker Street … Continue reading →

In Uncertain Times

Posted on July 27, 2018 by AE MatsonAugust 18, 2018

I don’t know how else to put this. If you didn’t know it, you may want or need to know it, so I’m just going to write it straight-up: Michael and I have spent most of 2018 dealing with the … Continue reading →

Raven’s Tears is now on KDP Select!

Posted on March 31, 2018 by AE MatsonMarch 31, 2018

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For a long time now, we’ve been in the stupid position of having Raven’s Tears out of AMZN’s KDP Select service, while Dead Man’s Trigger remained IN the service, despite multiple attempts instructing AMZN NOT to renew its membership. Today, … Continue reading →

Protected: Our Plan

Posted on March 30, 2018 by AE MatsonMarch 30, 2018

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The Triple Partnership

Hey, all. Alesia here, again. You know, I never, ever expected to be on the board of a corporation, let alone sitting as its president. It was just never a thing that was on my radar, and no one would … Continue reading →

Making It Sew — and So

Posted on January 26, 2018 by AE MatsonJanuary 26, 2018

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This week’s news is that Michael and I have finally begun the process of getting Dead Man’s Trigger (DMT) down from the digital clouds and into a real, physical paperback book. We’d like to apologize for the wait to those … Continue reading →

Resurrections

Posted on November 18, 2017 by AE MatsonNovember 18, 2017

Hi, everyone. Alesia, here. It feels good to be able to say that, after two long, dark years, Michael and I have resumed the work on book three of the Raven & Iris trilogy. He and I spent this last … Continue reading →

On the Nature of Roller Coasters

Posted on October 7, 2016 by AE MatsonOctober 7, 2016

Hey again. This is Alesia, checking in with a little progress report. Here’s the tl;dr version: We’re still here, alive, kicking, swinging for the fences. That’s huge. We’ve had to restructure MetPub to get through this interregnum. Our goals as … Continue reading →