temporary new intro post! Hey, i’m Matt! i’m an Australian fantasy and romance author better known by my pen names: Devin Madson (Orbit) and Rebecca Ide (Tor and Saga) i will do a proper post soon (probably) but for now, this thread here is all about my books, so check it out! ⬇️

Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen Coheed & Cambria (repeatedly) The Who Leonard Cohen The Prodigy (Keith Flint's 2nd last show 😢) OnlyOneOf 🥵

*me fasting again* lol, this sucks

Inspired by @tswitherspoon.bsky.social, here's a breakdown of what I wrote last week as a part-time author!

Okay seriously, what sort of grub pisses with the cubicle door open in a unisex bathroom?

Here's another piece of writing advice, that's particularly apposite on this website: Be bored. Ignore your phone, step away from the computer, go for a walk, do some gardening, just stare out the fucking window. Quiet your brain and let your imagination free.

Awake at 3am, fucking really???

Huh. I might actually get through Book Bingo this year.

HOT MUSIC ALERT, HOT MUSIC ALERT, Ada Rook doing a cover of one of my fave Children of Bodom tracks? Christmas has arrived early. adarook.bandcamp.com/track/needle...

Did I mention that my latest book, TAYLOR SWIFT IN EVERY ERA: AN UNOFFICIAL COLORING ADVENTURE is out right now, just in time for Christmas? www.christopher-ruz.com/blog/taylors...

I absolutely do not believe in ghosts, except for that time when I (and everyone else in the room with me) saw a ghost

I know I'm very late to the party but I think I'm finally in my 100 gecs phase www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXrb...

Pumping up productivity in an attempt to claw back this deadline . 3k words today and every day until 2026. I’m so tired.

LET'S GOOOOOOOO

Survived another term of kpop dance and this slide where I just eject myself at velocity through everyone's legs has to be my fav part (ENHYPEN - GIVEN-TAKEN)

wait wait wait, new Spy x Family?!?? I'm taking the day off.

I'm not 100% sure but I think I might finally be cooking up something tasty here

Me: After 7 years of work and a dev doc longer than the LOTR trilogy, I'm finally writing my novel about a French-inspired vertically-stratified city where a man conscripted into a gang of exterminators hunts a mad centipede god in order to save his sister Hiron Ennes: You're not gonna believe this

Been working on a fight scene in THE SKY MY GRAVE. One of the ship crew in my space novel is gonna ☠️ a bad guy bounty hunter using the ship's FTL drive, the "G-TiDE," as a belt sander. Gonna be gruesome. Best part of writing, IMHO.

Let's do this.

I'm not 100% sure but I think I might finally be cooking up something tasty here

Meanwhile I'm 2/3 through writing a mixed-race monster-hunter girl killing the absolute shit out of a bunch of ICE gestapo. Malus Domestica 4.

The Shadow of the Erdtree experience is running in circles for two hours looking for any way to progress before realising you walked straight past the extremely dramatic staircase of blood and rot almost two days prior because you were so focused on picking up a mushroom

…a pro sale for my 40th birthday?!?

It's back! We're just a bunch of local authors sitting around and talking plots and contracts and editing woes over beer and pizza. If you're in Naarm/Melbourne and you write literally anything, join us!

As we approach the end of 2025, our team of Randos is looking for new judges to join the crew! Do you love reading? Like, REALLY love reading? Would you like to send an award to the author of your fave book of the year? If so, join us! Shout out and we'll get you on the team!

Staten Island isn't beating the "would ally with the nightmare corpse-city of R'lyeh" allegations

Staten Island isn't beating the "would ally with the nightmare corpse-city of R'lyeh" allegations

Today's Minute Cryptic was a bit of a wild ride. www.minutecryptic.com

40!

*me about to throw an old, limited edition boardgame up on Marketplace for $50* *on a whim, decides to check average sale prices* SEVEN HUNDRED DOLLARYDOOS?

Did you want the "founding member of the Whitlams" uncle, the "wrote a song played at the Sydney Olympics Opening Ceremony and now jams out with Reg Mombassa" uncle, or the "convicted felon and serial molester" uncle? I have so many uncles.

Today’s “Anthony Albanese wearing Joy Division shirt makes him a Nazi apologist” news has strong “Benny Hill Bluesky Brouhaha” energy

I have reached my “politicians congratulate me for being alive” phase

It's launch day for Taylor Swift In Every Era, a choose-your-own-adventure colouring book written by me and illustrated by @ellezorart.bsky.social! Thank you to @mmmlysaght.bsky.social and the whole team at Insight Editions for making this book happen! Grab your copy: amzn.to/49e9zpf

Thinking today about Wa5ter, an old parkour buddy. He collapsed during a training sesh along Southbank in 2006ish and couldn't be revived. He was maybe 21, 22 years old? I have no photos of him. All the forums we hung on have been deleted. There's no record he was ever here. That doesn't feel right.

Students: "Sir, sir! Nice hair, sir! Nice jacket! You think you look sharp, sir? Who're you trying to look good for, sir? Who're you trying to impress?" Me, blanking: "...Me. I look good for me. You've got to find value in yourselves, boys." Students: "...awwww, true sir, true. Wisdom."

First full month living with solar + battery. We spent just 46.8c on electricity from the grid. Feels good!

My goal was 80k by the end of September. Just squeaked through!

Told the nurse at the Red Cross I was hoping to break the five minute barrier for blood donation (previous PB: 5:07) and ended up with multiple staff around my chair going AWWWW NOOOOO when I came in at 5:05. Anyway. Give blood!

Have now hit or exceeded my goals four days in a row, LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOO

I just signed A Book Thing 👀

School holidays kicked off today which means I’m sprinting to get all the big chunks of this secret novel project in place before teaching resumes in 2 weeks. I need to hit 2500 words a day, every day. Wish me luck.

Hey there Delilah I am writing the Quixote Adding hermeneutic weight to what Miguel wrought crude and floaty Vis-à-vis The work— attributed to me? Or only he?

One of my responses to the reading-difficulty conversation is: if you want to do anything with theory whatsoever you’ve gotta get comfortable feeling like you got hit with a rock on first reading. It’s a good and healthy and *pleasurable* thing to strive to meet a text where it’s at!!

Student: Sir, are you wasian? Me,: No, I'm not wasian Student: Lee in the other class said you were wasian Me: Lee is mistaken Student: Then why are your eyes so small? Student 2: You can't say that, that's so racist Student 1: I can't be racist, I'm Vietnamese Me, sobbing: please do your calculus

The Amphora of Great Intelligence (AGI) #webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

Me: so you see, with sunlight and vitamin D being so important to our wellbeing, people living at these polar extremes where they might not see sunlight for months at a time have higher rates of depression and- Student: but sir, can’t they just goon?

Wes Streeting should resign.