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Special Edition Film Review: PRIMITIVE WAR (2025)
THE DIRTY DOZEN meets JURASSIC PARK during the Vietnam War
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Matthew W. Quinn
Retro Book Review: HIERO'S JOURNEY (1973), PRIMITIVE WAR Review Next Week
A look at an early influence on BATTLE FOR THE WASTELANDS. Also Westerns panels at DragonCon, a friend's GoFundMe, and an upcoming special newsletter on…
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Matthew W. Quinn
My DragonCon Panels, B-Movie Parody, Show TODAY
Two panels I'm going to be on about Westerns, a parody song inspired by a terrible movie, and a narrower movie-review focus going forward, and a Stone…
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Matthew W. Quinn

July 2025

Premium Post: WASTELANDS Early Installment Weirdness
As the series became more grounded, these things went away
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Matthew W. Quinn
Virginia Highlands Book Signing 7/26, Retro Movie Review: SPACEHUNTER: ADVENTURES IN THE FORBIDDEN ZONE (1983)
Third bookstore signing this year, Molly Ringwald vs. Dalek Vader, and THE THING IN THE WOODS discounted again
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Matthew W. Quinn
Retro Book Review: THE WOLFEN (1978), Atlanta Comic Convention Reminder
A 1970s NYC creature feature, another reminder for a great big show I'm going to next week, another bookstore signing, and store with my stuff in…
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Matthew W. Quinn

June 2025

Writer Clinic: On Cutting Words (Premium Post)
How to reduce your word counts without cutting important material
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Matthew W. Quinn
More AI Artwork, Atlanta Comic-Con Again
Alyssa Carson, the warlord Grendel in his younger years, and a creepy hominid predator. Also the Atlanta Comic-Con at Georgia World Congress Center…
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Matthew W. Quinn
Retro Movie Review: LAIR OF THE WHITE WORM (1988), Book Fair, Returning to Atlanta Comic-Con
A movie I was vaguely aware of starring young Hugh Grant and Peter Capaldi. Also my next few appearances and virtual panels on WWI and WWII and fiction…
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Matthew W. Quinn

May 2025

Writer Clinic: Adverbs and How To Avoid Them (Premium Post)
This is a good way to cut word count as well as improve one's technique more generally
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Matthew W. Quinn
Retro Movie Review: HOWARD THE DUCK (1986), My Next Signing
A fun film that failed to find an audience. Also I'm signing in Kennesaw 5/31.
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Matthew W. Quinn
Writer Clinic: Techniques For Good Description
Ideas about when to show and when to tell and other ways to describe that I've accumulated over the years. And I'm signing in Kennesaw May 31
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Matthew W. Quinn
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