Mat Nastos's Blog, page 9

Announcement: FANBOYED the Movie!

I’ve been hinting around for the past few weeks about a new film project that I am putting together. Ok, maybe not so much “hinting” as “not shutting up about.” Well, I wanted to post here on MatNastos.net to make it official.
Yes, I am going to be producing a brand new, self-produced film…something I’ve done [...]

Indie Book Spotlight: Of Hearts And Stars

Title:
Of Hearts And Stars
Summary:
Lovingly crafted action scenes brought together with strong character development make Of Hearts And Stars a fast paced, but long standing read with depth of emotion. When faced with the reality of a civil war, for the first novel of The Cadet Student Chronicles we are shown the life of Leoric Swift [...]

Indie Book Spotlight: Degranon

On the planet Valchondria, no illness exists, gay marriage is legal, and everyone is a person of color. However, a group called “the Maintainers” carefully monitors everyone’s speech, actions, and weight; the Maintainers also force so-called “colorsighted” people to hide their ability to see in color.

The brilliant scientist Taldra sees her twin sons as [...]

Indy Book Spotlight: Strays​ – The Glaring Chronicles (Dark Fantasy)

SYNOPSIS: There are 500 million cats in the world, but some of them are not all that they seem. Part of a secret order called “The Glaring,” these mysterious changelings move among us, sometimes as common cats, sometimes in more human form, marking our movements as we go about our lives. ​
An ancient evil known [...]

Amazing Las Vegas Comic Con 2013 Wrap-Up – and some thoughts on Caretaker vs Creator

I am back at home after an incredibly 4 days our in Las Vegas at the 2013 Amazing Las Vegas Comic Con. This was a first year show from the guys that run the Amazing Arizona Cons (and who managed the 2012 Image Expo and 2012 Las Vegas Comic Expo, Jay Company). For a [...]

New Project: Co-Writing Brigade with Rob Liefeld

For those of you who missed it, the monster news announced yesterday was that I will be co-writing the new Brigade series with comic book superstar and Image Comics founder, Rob Liefeld. And, for those of you who aren’t as familiar with comics, Brigade was one of Rob’s enormously successful comic books from the mid-1990s. [...]

New Project Announcement: Shadowgirls Novel for Th3rdWorld Studios!

I get pitched on a lot of project every month — heck, every WEEK I seem to have people and companies hitting me up to do work for them. From movies to TV to comics to video games. 99.99% of them are horrible and I turn them down. However, once in a blue moon [...]

The Cestus Concern: 16-bit Book Trailer

Every so often I get to do something really cool and really fun. Like a lot of authors and publishers out there I’ve been wanting to put together a video book trailer for my first novel, The Cestus Concern. Video is cool and a great way to connect with fans and readers. BUT, I didn’t [...]

Indy Book Spotlight: Communiqué

Synopsis: Communiqué is the story of one lower-level communications station officer who journeys though a section of dangerous space to save the woman he loves from an impending attack that only he knows about. This character-driven science fiction short story was written by Tom Neuschafer and edited by Kristen Mazza.
Author Bio: Tom Neuschafer has been [...]

New Sketchbook Cover!!

What I’ve got for you today is the cover to my upcoming sketchbook (out in the next month or so). I was going to wait to show this off, but I couldn’t wait! As a kid I was a huge X-men fan, in particular of Wolverine, and some of my favorite story lines were those [...]