On the Nature of Roller Coasters
Hey again. This is Alesia, checking in with a little progress report. Here’s the tl;dr version: Still Being, Here That truly is a huge reason to be thankful, because it was close. No, seriously, don’t just glance over that. I mean it. It…
We’re Back
As you likely know, if you’ve been by here at all in 2016, we’ve been MIA. That’s because we’ve had to restructure everything here in order to keep functioning at all – gotta have money here in this western world – and…
The Final Hours
We’re into the final hours, and Dead Man’s Trigger is still holding its own at #2 in Literature & Fiction > Action & Adventure > Fantasy – but we’d sure like to see it go back to #1 on the last day of its KDP Select…
Try Before You Buy
Have a sample chapter from Raven’s Tears. Here’s one from Dead Man’s Trigger. The reviews have begun to come in, and they’re fabulous! There’s just about a day and a half left on the ebook giveaway. You’ve got that…
Regreetings!
From Alesia: Hello, everyone! Regreetings! I'm sitting in a vacation rental with my bestie of 23 years, who is also a fantasy fiction writer and a role playing gamer. We're in southern Oregon, on the Rogue River, enjoying our yearly retreat from our…
MFGCast Interview with Authors Alesia and Michael Matson [link]
Our MFGCast interview covered the gamut from the uses of the modern metaphor to the nitty-gritty realities of indie publishing, but it turned out to be amazingly coherent! We got to talk storytelling in fiction and in tabletop gaming for awhile with…
In Case We Missed It
You read that right. We lost our office internet connection and were offline for most of last week. Michael is our Guru of All the Internet Things, and he eventually wrangled the configuration files back into submission. Once again, we have official…
LIVE Tonight on Rolecasters!
Michael and I are going to be LIVE tonight on Rolecasters starting at 9pm EST, 6 pm Pacific, talkiing about Raven's Tears, the world of Menelon, the nexus of fantasy RPGs and fiction, and whatever else they'll let us get away with. We've never done a…
Words Curling
This quote sums up like 90% of my depressive episodes, right here. Substitute "depression" for "darkness" and you have it. I wonder if this is true for writers in general, that our depressive bouts are generally due to being lost in an inner world…
Magical Worlds
He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real. - Salman Rushdie, Haroon and the Sea of Stories Coming in April/May 2015.