Picking Your Battles
My new book, The South Coast, has been out for just about two weeks now. The release was sloppy, to say the least, due to Amazon picking the listing up […]
An Open Letter to Jeff Bezos
Jeff, I am a writer. I am in the process of independently publishing my first book, The South Coast. In the early stages I was going with Amazon’s CreateSpace but decided to […]
From Author to Publicist: The many hats of self-publishing
I’m still working on coming to terms with calling myself an author and now I have to be a publicist, run distribution and more. Self-publishing, the less condescending name for […]
Cover Story
The cover art has changed a bit since I began blogging about the book. Here is the final front cover that will be seen on the trade paperback print version […]
Soundtrack for a Book?
We’ve all walked out of a movie theater or turned off a DVD with the music from the film running through our head. Maybe we went online and ordered the […]
The Proof is in the Proof
I’ve been bad about posting here, but things are getting exciting as we are so close to being ready to publish The South Coast! The print proof came in this […]
Final stages!
It’s been (quite) a while since my last posting, but while I was in a holding pattern for the book to get back from editing I was busy working on […]
A great loss in espionage thrillers
Vince Flynn, the top 10 selling author of a dozen novels, mostly starring his character Mitch Rapp, died at age 47 from prostate cancer. I’ve enjoyed reading all of Vince’s […]
Chapter One
As promised: CHAPTER ONE The South Coastby John H MatthewsCOMING SOON The man fell to his knees in the warm surf of the Gulf of Mexico. The salt water struck […]
The First Word(s)
I follow several writing and author discussion forums. I’m mostly a stalker, watching what others ask and then following as the next fifty posts go from informative and morph into […]