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Matthew Tansek is a Detroit based writer and librarian who loves to bring the excitement of speculative fiction to new audiences. After a decade of working with books, Matt knows what makes a good story- and it’s not five dollar words or trendy subject matter. It’s compelling characters in evocative situations.

Matthew currently sits on the board for the Great Lakes Association of Horror Writers.

Information about Matthew and his works can be found at https://linktr.ee/tanz444.
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Picked Up for Publication

Well, I’m happy to report that my last two story submissions have been picked up for publication by the Great Lakes Association of Horror Writers. It’s been a minute since I was included in one of their anthologies, and am very happy to have my work back in one of their books.

The first story will be part of the Recurring Nightmare series, which if I were to write an elevator pitch for it would go

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So You Want To Be A Game Master: Everything You Need to Start Your Tabletop Adventure for Dungeons and Dragons, Pathfinder, and Other Systems

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The Invisible Library (The Invisible Library, #1)

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Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s

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“Words form the tenebrous membrane that separates the real world from those of imagination.”
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“He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.’” “Aristotle?” ventured Oliver, not recognizing the words. “Sophocles, dear boy,” Hillshore had said with an amused shake of his head. “Ah, you always did have a fondness for the Greek tragedians.” “The benefits of a classical education, Oliver.” “I’ll see your Sophocles and raise you a Heraclitus,” said Oliver. “‘I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.”
― Graham McNeill, Bones of the Yopasi

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“Oliver reached out to lift the skull with careful fingers. It was light, lighter than the repository of a man’s intellect, personality, and memories ought to be, thought Oliver.”
― Graham McNeill, Bones of the Yopasi

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“A secret face only the dreamers can see. Awake, you can’t see the truths beneath the surface.”
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“Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master.”
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