Pesky Weeds
By Matthew Aadland Pesky little things, these weeds. If you didn’t stay on top of them, they’d ruin your whole garden. I grabbed the jagged little plant by the base and gave it a firm
Month: March 2022
Little Gifts
By Matthew Aadland (Note: the narrator is a woman. There was some confusion on that point when I first wrote this on Reddit, so I just wanted to be clear). Coffee in hand, I walked
The long, long road to the world of Operational Realities
So my book is available on Amazon. There’s a few people following me (most of whom probably don’t even know about this blog yet, heh), and I’m 100% sure that they don’t have the slightest
Fanboy time…
Okay, so the thing about being a writer is that you kind of have to be a reader, first. So I’m a reader. A big reader, specifically in the Fantasy and Sci-Fi genres, though not
My first bit of fan-art
Warning: This is NSFW for cartoon genitals. It was done by Ultra_bra on Reddit, at the commission of my number one fan. If you like it, be sure to let them know. That’s Inanna on
A Scene from Operational Realities
This is a scene from my first book, Operational Realities. It shows the main character, SSGT James “Jimmy Two” Adams meeting a Brute for the first time. Not taking any chances, he orders the aircraft
Inanna’s portrait
This was done by me, in Photoshop. The original version can be seen on Reddit, but I screwed up her skin coloring there, leaving her too pale. This is Inanna, goddess of Love, Sex, Beauty
The Bizarre Saga of Jerry and the Goddesses
Jerry and the Goddesses is a story I’m in the midst of writing on Reddit. It began as a response to an r/WritingPrompts post; a subreddit where people post ideas for authors to write short
I finally Published
I did it the other day. I hit publish on Kindle and published my first book. It’s live on Amazon now. I didn’t just do that, though. I have a few hundred people following me