Hello, 2020

About a decade ago (very late 2009, early 2010) I started tearing apart the first draft of my first book, restructuring it into something more resembling a three-act structure. That September (2010), I put it up on Smashwords (and KDP about six months later) and I was “published”.

That book — Matt’s War — is still a favourite of mine. I worked on it for years, afraid to finish it, thinking it was crap. It might be, for all I know. Writers (and painters and composers and other people who...