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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
Retro Movie Review: THE ABYSS (1989), Three (Virtual) Panels
Behold the greatest underwater sci-fi adventure movie of the late 1980s...
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Matthew W. Quinn

April 2025

Premium Short Fiction: "The Past Is Ashes"
In this Weird Western fantasy, a young man commits a terrorist attack against some occupying soldiers and is surprised by the response
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Matthew W. Quinn
Retro Movie Review: THE BRIDGE AT REMAGEN (1969), Free Comic Day In Stone Mountain
The battle for the last bridge over the Rhine in 1945 gets dramatized. Also I'm selling in Stone Mountain again.
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Matthew W. Quinn
Retro Book Review: THE PESHAWAR LANCERS (2002), (Virtual) Appearances, BATTLE Discount
A book I last read (entirely) in high school or early college gets another look, an appearance on a horror-themed YouTube, discounts, and a new show!
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Matthew W. Quinn

March 2025

Premium Post: The BATTLE FOR THE WASTELANDS Villainous Flagship
Some discussion of a steampunk tyrant's personal dirigible, including why it doesn't burn so easily
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Matthew W. Quinn
Special Edition Book Review: THE BOOK OF DOORS (2024), Short Fiction Reader Poll
Not the usual type of book I read, but still VERY good. And a survey about original stories on Patreon and my panels at StellarFest
Guest Post: How Christopher G. Nuttall Would Have Done STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS
Ben before his fall, a more seductive neo-Empire, both Rey *and* Finn are Force-sensitives, and more! Also a new show April 4-6 in Duluth.
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Matthew W. Quinn
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A Musical Theater HELLRAISER, New Authors For You
Some of the best lines actually work as song titles. Also, an Alabama writer spins tales of white-trash wizardry, a devotional by a co-worker's sister…
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Matthew W. Quinn
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