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Yesterday my wife visited Longfellow Books in Monument Square in Portland, Maine and spied our Maine Icons book for sale on their Great Gifts shelf! Longfellow Books is a terrific independent bookstore, definitely worth a visit if you're ever cruising around Portland....

There's excitement in the air here at Casa Mayo. We just found out that the first book my wife, photographer Jennifer Smith-Mayo, and I did together, Maine Icons: 50 Classic Symbols of the Pine Tree State, is no longer up for pre-order at Amazon and Barnes &...

Building on the success of its superfreaky antho., How the West Was Weird, Pulpwork Press presents How the West Was Weird, Vol. II. That's right, the Weirdest Western anthology of the year will claw its way through the saloon doors on July 1, 2011. The book is filled...

A few weeks ago, I mentioned I'd been invited to contribute to the new action series, The Dead Man. I know, talk about whippa! (That's Maine-speak for "nifty beyond all reasonable belief.") But it gets better…. I can hear you saying, "How, Matt? How does it get...

I just found out that my Western steampunk short story, "Scourge of the Spoils," from the DAW Books anthology, Steampunk'd, is one of five finalists in the 2010 Western Fictioneers Peacemaker Awards, Best Western Short Story category! Cool beans, I say…. Click here...

At long last, it's the anthology everyone's been barking, howling, and growling about…. Now it can be told! MONDO SASQUATCH, a Bigfoot anthology, is stalking through the forest on its way to a summer release! Under the "Bookgasm Presents" banner, Mondo Sasquatch is...

But never a "New Pulp Master"—and I am humbled and pleased. Pulp writer David Cranmer, at his blog, The Education of a Pulp Writer, kindly posted a bit about me, my penchant for sorting through all things sasquatch, and he also linked to a few of my writings. Here's...

I was just invited to write a book in the hot new series, THE DEAD MAN, and I couldn't be more pleased. The first installment, THE DEAD MAN: FACE OF EVIL, was a blast to read and I can't wait for follow-up volumes. Fortunately, I won't have to wait long. The second,...

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I'm honored to be one of three writers interviewed in Wizards of the Coast's D&D Insider, with Marcus Pelegrimas and Russell Davis, two amazing  writers whose cross-genre work inspires me to greater heights with my own work. The focus of the interview is the role...