Ask the Author: Matt Harry
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Matt Harry
I'm currently editing TIME TRAVEL FOR BEGINNERS, the latest novel in the Codex Arcanum series. You can get a copy here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...
Matt Harry
Yes, I have plans for at least two more books. I'm not sure of the exact title for Book 3 yet, but it has to do with Time Travel. Thanks for your question; I'm so glad you enjoyed the books!
Matt Harry
This is always the most stressful time -- hoping the advance reviews are good, hoping people enjoy the book, hoping people are willing to host you for events. So far, the response has been great! Fingers crossed it continues ...
We will be going to several cities over the next few months. Right now, we'll be visiting LA, San Diego, Cleveland, and San Francisco, but we hope to add more. Check http://www.mattharrywork.com/events for updates!
We will be going to several cities over the next few months. Right now, we'll be visiting LA, San Diego, Cleveland, and San Francisco, but we hope to add more. Check http://www.mattharrywork.com/events for updates!
Matt Harry
Hi Megan! Both Superkid and Cryptozoology are with my editor, so hopefully they will be out in the beginning of 2019. In the meantime I may be releasing a short story or two in the fall to tie Crypto and Sorcery together. Thanks for your question --
Matt Harry
This is such a wonderful question, I've been pondering it for days. There are so many book worlds I'd love to visit, be it Ancelstierre in Garth Nix's Abhorsen series, Rivendell in Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, or the islands of Narnia in C.S. Lewis' The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. I even considered the pros and cons of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Sure, it's kind of creepy that everyone is split into castes and constantly mainlining Soma, but there's plenty of diverting entertainment and everyone's happy. (Well, all except for the kid from the Native American reservation and the unfulfilled writer guy. But even he gets to go live on the Isle of Man at the end.) But I suspect the place I'd be truly happiest is Lyra's Oxford in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials series. Yes, there's the Magisterium to worry about, but there's also cool steampunk technology and multiverse portals to explore. And who could resist the chance to meet their own daemon?
Matt Harry
I was looking at an entire shelf of "For Dummies" guides in a bookstore and marveling at how many topics they covered. I then thought, "Wouldn't it be fun if there was a help guide on a supernatural subject, like monsters or ghostbusting?" Realizing there were already films about those topics, I turned to the next most obvious choice: sorcery. From there, a story came pretty quickly. I wrote three drafts before realizing the novel itself should be formatted like a help guide.
Matt Harry
Write! Write, write, write, then write some more. In between writing, read. Not just stuff you like, but everything. If you do both these things for any large chunk of time, you cannot help but improve.
Matt Harry
Since I can't narrow it down, I'm going to pick two: the first best thing is being able to spend time in a world that you've created. The second best thing is watching other people enjoy that world.
Matt Harry
I have two young kids, so any time I'm writing, I'm paying someone else to watch them. I literally can't afford to have writer's block. But if I'm stuck on a section or a scene, I'll jump to another point in the book and write that instead, or I'll go to another project altogether (I usually have 3 to 4 going at the same time, in various states of completion). Once I'm cruising along, it takes the pressure off whatever part I was stuck on, and the next time I go to it, I know what needs to be done.
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