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The Old Sergeant- Story Excerpt

The Old Sergeant
by Mat Nastos
Available for Download at:
Smashwords
Amazon for the Kindle
Barnes & Noble for the Nook
Synopsis: dfgd
Story Excerpt:
The Northern Isles were green and alive with the sort of beauty and perfection that almost always guaranteed that someone powerful somewhere would covet them. Before being annexed by the neighboring kingdom of Caerllyth to the south, the [...]

The Old Sergeant- Story Excerpt is a post from: The Official Mat Nastos Website

Short Story Challenge Episode 2: The Old Sergeant

Welcome to the Mat-Cave!
I've just finished up week 2 in my 22-week Short Story Challenge. For those of you who missed it, in an effort to force myself to be more disciplined with my writing, I issued the "Short Story Challenge" to myself — write 22 stories in the 22 weeks remaining in the year [...]

Short Story Challenge Episode 2: The Old Sergeant is a post from: The Official Mat Nastos Website

Quick Tip of the Week: Grabbing sales from reviews/previews/interviews

A quick tip that I've used to encourage reviews for a lot of non-comic products (include books) is to allow the reviewers to include Amazon links to the products — or, if the product isn't on Amazon, any other affiliate link to where the product can be purchased.
What this does is twofold (and works for [...]

Quick Tip of the Week: Grabbing sales from reviews/previews/interviews is a post from: The Official Mat Nastos Website

New Comic Project: Blindside with Marat Mychaels

I am incredibly excited to announce the new comic book project I'll be writing.  For those of you who follow me on Twitter or Facebook, this announcement came last night in a series Tweets.  For those of you who don't follow me on Twitter or Facebook — what the hell is wrong with you people?!  [...]

New Comic Project: Blindside with Marat Mychaels is a post from: The Official Mat Nastos Website

My Love Affair with Blindside

I have always been an absolutely HUGE action film fan — everything from the Blaxploitation films of the 70s to Chinese Kung Fu Cinema to anime to blockbuster Hollywood films of the 80s. If it had punches, kicks, guns or swords in it, then I was a fan.
And, as a testosterone-filled child of the [...]

My Love Affair with Blindside is a post from: The Official Mat Nastos Website

DC Retailer Roadshow – A Recap

I just got home from the DC Retailer Roadshow meeting for their upcoming DC 52 relaunch here in Los Angeles. The meeting itself was held on the Warner Brothers lot in Burbank and was pretty interesting overall. I'll go over some of the stuff that went down at the meeting — I'll go [...]

DC Retailer Roadshow – A Recap is a post from: The Official Mat Nastos Website

A question about the power of creator owned comics in the direct market

I get a lot of email from readers of this site and from people who follow the Tuesday Twitterstorm that is #comicmarket. Here is a quick question from Stephen Damm. Take it away, Stephen!
Mr Nastos
I was going one direction – the relationship of creator owned titles to sales numbers and how CO properties actually [...]

A question about the power of creator owned comics in the direct market is a post from: The Official Mat Nastos Website

ElfSong Kickstarter – Elf-Help needed!

I wanted to announce that I am running a Kickstarter campaign to help get the new, full-color ElfSong comic up and running.  If successful, the series will run monthly — with art and story by me, Mat Nastos — starting in January 2012 from the fine folks at Th3rd World Studios (publishers of the amazing [...]

ElfSong Kickstarter – Elf-Help needed! is a post from: The Official Mat Nastos Website

Mat Nastos at the San Diego Comic Con 2011

As this posts on the morning of Tuesday, July 19, 2011, I'll already be in route to San Diego for the monstrous 2011 San Diego Comic Con!  I've hit 21 out of the past 22 ComiCons — ever since I attended my first in 1989 with the Hawaii State Comic Collectors!
While I don't have a [...]

Mat Nastos at the San Diego Comic Con 2011 is a post from: The Official Mat Nastos Website

The Mat Nastos Short Story Challenge

Welcome to the Mat-Cave!
Today is going to be a bit of an interesting exercise for me. I was asked by a friend of mine to contribute to his upcoming short story anthology (more on that in a later post). The reason I say it is going to be "an interesting exercise" is because I haven't [...]

The Mat Nastos Short Story Challenge is a post from: The Official Mat Nastos Website