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Matthew was born in Syracuse, NY, where he spent most of his childhood. Throughout high school, he took a strong interest in music. He self-taught himself at least nine different instruments and composed pieces for his high school band to perform. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In college, he developed a love for writing and literature. He completed a draft of a novel, numerous essays, and maintained between one and three blogs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He has been a blogger for over ten years and a full-time writer for five years with more than a dozen novels published under multiple pseudonyms. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can read his off-topic work on Medium<\/a>. He is a top writer in the Reading, Books, Science, Education, and Fiction categories and an editor for the publication Mental Health and Addictions Community<\/em>. He regularly contributes to the publications The Startup<\/em>, The Writing Cooperative<\/em>, Age of Awareness<\/em>, and Cantor’s Paradise<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He currently lives in Connecticut, where he continues to write about his interests and runs Bear Hill Piano Services<\/a>, a piano tuning and repair company servicing NE CT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About the Site<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This site contains selected articles, analyses, musings, and notes from my past decade of working on my craft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You’ll see my highs and lows. You’ll find my struggles with figuring out what it means to be a good writer and how to improve. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The advice ranges from the practical to deeply philosophical discussions on validity in interpretation and progress in art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Treat these articles as you would criticism in a writing workshop. The overanalysis and oftentimes harsh words are merely tools for learning and thinking about writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you’ve ever been in a writing workshop, then you’ll know that heaps of criticism land on stories and writing that would otherwise be published, possibly to great acclaim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I hope you find it useful. Dig in. With hundreds of articles on the site, you probably won’t find the end anytime soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The full Table of Contents<\/a> will guide you through the site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My Books<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Specter of the Spheres<\/h3>\n\n\n
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The world ends each blood moon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But a faction of priestesses sacrifice themselves to keep it going. What happens when Aceline wants more for her life and decides not to do it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wallace has chased his dream of becoming a poet for a lifetime. It leads him toward a mysterious aurora.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert just wanted to connect with other humans in a world dictated by screens, algorithms, and addiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These three become linked across worlds, and each must uphold their end of a quest to prevent catastrophe at the hands of a tyrant in a land full of necromancy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This new work of slipstream fantasy will be loved by fans of Dan Simmons, Scarlett Thomas, and Clive Barker.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Talamir<\/h3>\n\n\n
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Something is watching all of Talamir…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And it’s not a person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Would you feel trapped if you lived in a thirty-mile-wide, inescapable crater? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What if a creature flowed underground, expanding, and continually draining the life from you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The people of Talamir have lived this way for two thousand years, and no one knows it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Drystn has the Talent. He can perform magic by moving spior between focal points. The government drafts him into a secret group for this impossible fight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The magic system that created the world may end up destroying it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you love other world fantasy and thrilling adventures, you’ll love Talamir.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sifting Out the Hearts of Men<\/h3>\n\n\n
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It’s the fastest-growing religion in the world.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do you know how it started?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The setting is idyllic Moreau Lake in upstate New York, and Peter is dying. An angel appears to him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now he has to deliver a message to the world before it’s too late.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can he discern reality from hallucination as he accidentally starts a new religion?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you like <\/em>Wild Wild Country and <\/em>Going Clear you’ll love <\/em>Sifting Out the Hearts of Men.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Matthew was born in Syracuse, NY, where he spent most of his childhood. Throughout high school, he took a strong interest in music. He self-taught himself at least nine different instruments and composed pieces for his high school band to perform. In college, he developed a love for writing and literature. He completed a draft of … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amindformadness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10123"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amindformadness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amindformadness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amindformadness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amindformadness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10123"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/amindformadness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12146,"href":"https:\/\/amindformadness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10123\/revisions\/12146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amindformadness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}