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The Indie Writer Council Speaks

By Matt Mitchell | Published: January 13, 2010

It’s a shame when indie writers are putting out better material than the big-time writers (who I call “Boom Writers”), but it’s happening. And my feeling is that it’s going to happen more and more. The digital age is unfolding like a spring-time blossom, revealing layer after layer as it does, giving us the content [...]

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A Movable Feast

By Matt Mitchell | Published: December 4, 2008

I had a revelation yesterday that I wrote briefly about, but now I’m going to elaborate a bit more on it. It’s one of those things that creeps up on you, that you don’t realize it’s there until it’s bitten you on the throat and sucked out all your blood (but in a good way). [...]

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Publishing vs. Self-Publishing [Once Again]

By Matt Mitchell | Published: December 3, 2008

I’ve had it. It’s not the rejection letters, and it’s not the lengthy timespan between the moment that I mail the submission and finally receive my rejection. It’s just the process. The reformatting every story every time I send it out because this editor wants italics and this one doesn’t, this one wants paragraphs indented [...]

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A Free Novella

By Matt Mitchell | Published: December 3, 2008

Following in the footsteps of fellow indie writer Ken McConnell, I’ve decided to self-publish a book. Not my novel, but one of my novellas. I’ve formatted the text to 5 1/2″ x 7″, because I do so love a compact little book I can fit in my pocket. This might be too big for a pocket, [...]

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Genre Bender

By Matt Mitchell | Published: November 14, 2008

I’m throwing my hat in with a few other pre-pro writers (AKA “wannabees”) over at the new groupblog Genre Bender. The blog will be all about the craft of writing, the frustrations of the amateur writer, with a sprinkle of commentary on specific genres. Sounds like fun, eh? Does to me, which is why I’m [...]

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Submission Packet

By Matt Mitchell | Published: October 17, 2007

I finished my submission packet today. I’m sending my novel “Modern-Day Mythica” to Tor in the hopes that it’ll be that one of ten thousand Tor accepts. Is it good enough? Who knows. The friends and relations who’ve read it thought it was good, or at least they were nice enough to tell me it [...]

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How I Got My First Story Published

By Matt Mitchell | Published: August 27, 2007

Recently I had a story accepted for publication by the Mount Zion Review. This was my first acceptance, and I’ve been asked a few times how it came to be published, so here it is, in very short order: I wrote the story, which is about 4700 words, in 2002. It is a dark fiction piece, [...]