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Would you flip the switch?

By Matt Mitchell | Published: December 4, 2008
Here’s a question I’m exploring with this series of books I’m writing. The answer to this question will come in book three. But let me set it up first, because it’s really a theme that stays with the entire series: Suppose a cataclysmic event occurs and the world is plunged into darkness. Electricity no longer [...]
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Old Turtle

By Matt Mitchell | Published: July 16, 2008
Knowing that I’m a fan of turtles of all kinds, and always in the market for a new children’s book, my wife bought a book called “Old Turtle” from Amazon. As soon as it came I opened up the box and read it to my two boys. They loved it and I did, too. This book [...]
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The Big Idea: Matt Mitchell

By Matt Mitchell | Published: July 1, 2008
I love the Big Idea series John Scalzi is doing. I like reading about the genesis of an idea, how it came to be written. If I had an opportunity to show John Scalzi my Big Idea–which I don’t, since the book is not published–I might tell him that my idea has a lot to [...]
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ARRGGHH! [Query Writing]

By Matt Mitchell | Published: May 14, 2008
Queries suck. At least writing them does. The entire novel-writing process has never made me feel so futile as penning these two vexing paragraphs. I could fill this page with links to query-writing suggestions and formats and information I’ve read from various outlets all over the web, all of it very helpful in its own [...]
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Old Man’s War

By Matt Mitchell | Published: May 1, 2008
**Spoiler Alert**  Something I’ve been thinking about lately: SciFi movies, more of them, please? Oh, and try and make them better, k? Here’s an idea: Old Man’s War, by John Scalzi, a book that is utterly primed for adaptation, and I don’t even see much of a way for them to ruin it. Look at the Hollywood history [...]
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Best Superhero Accoutrement

By Matt Mitchell | Published: April 25, 2008
Batman’s utility belt, Quasar’s quantum bands…there are tons of superheroes (and villains) out there who’ve accessorized to better enable them to perform their duties. Reed Richards has made a living out of building gadgets and machinery for his team and for the world at large. He designed unstable molecules so he and the rest of [...]
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Collectibles

By Matt Mitchell | Published: December 17, 2007
My Iron Man post of a few weeks ago got me thinking about comics and collectibles in general and, more specifically, why I don’t buy comics any more, and a few reasons became immediately clear: You can’t buy comics in the grocery store any more. When I was a kid I actually looked forward to going to [...]
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The Book

By Matt Mitchell | Published: December 12, 2007
My book is written. Well, it’s actually my third book, but the first one is not good and neither is the second, although with the second I believe its a good story, it just needs major rewrites. So, anyway, the book is done. It’s called Modern-Day Mythica, it’s around 120k words, and the premise is [...]
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Books I’ve read this year so far…

By Matt Mitchell | Published: March 26, 2007
Desolation Island by Patrick O’brian The Fortune of War by Patrick O’brian The Forever War by John Haldeman Six Frigates by Ian W. Toll Neuromancer by William Gibson Pattern Recognition by William Gibson Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan The Ruins by Scott Smith It by Stephen King Added 4-2-07: Johnny Too Bad by John Dufresne Added 6-1-07 (after getting on a Hemingway kick): The Green Hills [...]
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VidLit

By Matt Mitchell | Published: March 21, 2007
Something to think about, from a book marketing standpoint. You know, if I had a book to market. Anyway: VidLit. It’s like a trailer for a book, that can be sent to a mobile phone or viewed on da interwubby and the book can be purchased with a *click*. At least that’s the theory as [...]
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Costumorama

By Matt Mitchell | Published: June 22, 2006
I’ve had it with all these costume changes. In the first issue of the new Nova series, a fabulously written event occurs in which the Nova Corps are decimated and Richard Rider is the only one left. The Nova World Mind subsequently uploads into Rider, endowing him with all the power of the entire Nova [...]
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