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Matt Shaw An editor is used, I do not use beta readers anymore due to the amount who'd take the book and simply not give feedback.
Matt Shaw I'm not sure what you mean as you kind of answered it yourself, unless I am being really stupid which is entirely possible as that is my specialty. "None More Black" does contain most of the black cover books but not all of them. One day there may be a second volume with the later releases but currently there is no plan for such.

All books are available on Kindle Unlimited though :) I hope that helps but if not, just nudge me again :)
Matt Shaw Sorry, what are we talking about? I can't find another question by this handle and don't want to give the wrong information :S
Matt Shaw Hi,

Well thanks for giving my work a go. I appreciate it.

As for your questions:

1. I am working through my catalogue getting the paperbacks sorted so it will be coming, I just don't know when at this point.

2. The most disgusting stuff I've written is found in Obscenely Bizarre and - so far - people seem to be enjoying it!
Matt Shaw Whilst I one day might make Obscenely Bizarre 2 one day, not all of the stories will go from ETSY to Amazon due to content. Whilst I have a dark sense of humour, I know for the fact Amazon does not and some of the stories are downright offensive (Hitler role-play, for example). One of the books was about a certain prophet too and that got me a 24 hour ban on Facebook just when I put the title on there so - again - definitely not for Amazon. Ever.
Matt Shaw Just dumb cartoons for my own pleasure. I was trained by Terry Maddocks although my favourite cartoonist is Gary Larsen and Bill Watterson. Growing up I liked Jim Davis.

For a while I would cartoon faces onto fruit and vegetables and put them in fucked up poses. Those I sold to a magazine called NUTS for about £100 a photo. That made me laugh because I would do it on my camera phone and I was selling one a week, every week for about 6 months. Meanwhile some of friends went to photography classes / schools and couldn't sell anything. They were so pissed at me (in a nice way). Anyway that all started because I grated a carrot and then, on the head, drew a screaming face. I left the shredded carrot up to this "head" and snapped the photo and sent it off. I won letter of the week and they offered me my own segment. Happy days.

Recently I have got back into sketching and those I sell on my ETSY page. Normally twisted things and I have got quite masterful at drawing the penis. In fact a lot of readers tend to request a penis whenever I sign their books! Who am I to say no?

Happy Days indeed.
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Matt Shaw Just making a model using glue... glue that was made from UniPorn's dead body.
Matt Shaw I've not seen the documentary and - for the most part - I do agree with my characters' points of views. Obviously I have also written some really racist, women-hating pieces of shit too and I do NOT agree with their viewpoints in the slightest (they just make for fun bad guys and girls to hurt). But if someone is killing a rapist, I agree with the killing. If someone is hurting someone for hurting an animal, I agree with their actions.... I just don't go out and practise it :P
Matt Shaw No.
Suicide Bummers was banned after death threats from extremist groups. I released it as a paperback called "Sex Bomb". I believe that is in a collection called "What Was I Thinking" too, along with UniPorn and Fisting Rex.

A Christmas To Remember was a choose your own adventure story that had run its course, so I removed it. It won't come back.

Writer's Block is part of one of the horror back catalogue collections.

Man Eating Fucks isn't my book, I just published it. You need to speak to the original author (I've actually forgotten his name - how embarrassing is that).
Matt Shaw Depends on the story. Sometimes I just wing it and hope for the best and other times I have every tiny little detail planned.
Matt Shaw Presently there are no more plans to write with Collette (Sam). If we both had an idea that we both liked, I am sure we wouldn't hesitate to do it again. Sadly the last book "The Girl In The Painting" didn't really find an audience which was a downer for us.
Matt Shaw No idea. I've written so many now that I can't recall what is out and what isn't. I tend to just release and move on. If something gets pulled, I don't think much else of it.

There is a unpublished book on ETSY page (search twisted world of Matt Shaw) called "After You Eat My Spunk From Your Mother's Cunt, I'll Take An Axe To Your Head (and other romances)". That's only there because I won't get away with putting it anywhere else, and it's only in hardback, limited to 100.
Matt Shaw Amazon is your friend. Just need to put in:

Monster Matt Shaw Video

It will then come up.
Matt Shaw Fucking hell. 2 questions!?! Son of a bitch :P

I would have loved to work with Roald Dahl but he is dead now, which makes it somewhat harder. Presently I am so wrapped up in films that I haven't really given it much thought to write with another author.

I have seen Jon Athan's work out and about (I haven't read it because I tend not to read authors in the same genre, so as not to start sounding like them) and we have the same German publisher. I did actually consider reaching out to him to work with but figured he was busy too and, it just never happened.
Matt Shaw It had been nine months since I had seen her last. She smiled at me and told me that it was mine.

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