Matthew Bright

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Matthew Bright

@mbrightwriter

Writer (Tor, Nightmare, Lightspeed), designer (@inkspiraldesign), editor (Clockwork Cairo, etc.). Lammy-finalist for Stories To Sing In The Dark. he/him 🏳️‍🌈

Manchester, UK Katılım Aralık 2010

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Matthew Bright@mbrightwriter·13 Eki

NO SLEEP IN BETHLEHEM - Episode 1 is *out now*! 1936 - Bethlehem, a ramshackle, decaying house in the dark snowbound country. A son returns home to bury his mother. What's behind the locked door, what is the son desperately searching for, and why does the house shake at night?

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Robin Jarvis@RobinJarvis1963·25 Mar

This awesome tome was created by the far too clever chap called Matt, as a lockdown project for himself. He came to @thewhitbybooks1 on Friday to show me. It's the entire first trilogy in one book and look at the terrific cover!

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Matthew Bright@mbrightwriter·23 Mar

During lockdown I had a project to design and print one-off copies of my favourites, one of which was The Whitby Trilogy by @RobinJarvis1963, and yesterday I managed to have the joy of showing him and getting it signed in person at @whitbybookshop.

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Matthew Bright@mbrightwriter·14 Eki

@adaddinsane At this point I do way more working on cover design than I do on writing and I couldn’t agree more. So many self-pub covers make me twitch — and perhaps controversially, I do think if an author can’t discern their cover is bad, that correlates to the quality of the book too.

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Steve Turnbull (INACTIVE) 🏳️‍🌈@adaddinsane·14 Eki

I don't want to say this but I feel it's necessary. I've looked at some self-designed covers here and they're poor. The cover is your first point of contact with the reader, it must be good. It's a promise about what's inside, and a poor cover promises exactly that. 1/2

Amanda Hatwell@AWrites116

Self-published peeps, what's the price range you pay for your covers?

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Matthew Bright@mbrightwriter·14 Eki

In fact, I just realised — I read The Time Traveller’s Wife and The Book Thief within weeks of each other as a teenager and both became instant favourites; I’ve ended up seeing the new musicals of both within the same month. The Book Thief is vastly superior.

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Saw The Book Thief musical tonight at @octagontheatre Bolton — a beautiful adaptation of one of my favorite books (and a lovely theatre I somehow didn’t know existed despite being ten minutes up the road…!)

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Matthew Bright@mbrightwriter·12 Eki

Octoberwatch Day 11: the new Hellraiser. Jamie Clayton knocks it out of the park. Cenobite design is great. It’s oddly glossy for a Hellraiser movie, but still better than every other entry in the franchise barring the first, and possibly the second.

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Matthew Bright@mbrightwriter·11 Eki

Octoberwatch Day 10: Relic. In a previous Octoberwatch we decided to watch Saint Maud after the recent passing of my partner’s mother. Relic was also in the list, but we skipped it. I’m now very glad we did.

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Matthew Bright@mbrightwriter·10 Eki

Octoberwatch Day 9: the first episode of Mike Flanagan’s The Midnight Club. So far it is very Mike Flanagan, only barely made pacier for a teen audience. I was hoping for a better Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark, and I’m not sure that’s where it’s going, but I enjoyed it.

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Matthew Bright@mbrightwriter·10 Eki

Octoberwatch Day 8: I further traumatised myself alone in the dark with another favourite rewatch…

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Matthew Bright@mbrightwriter·3 Eki

I’ll almost certainly fault to make all 31, but god loves a truer, so here are my daily #halloween films of October. Mix of old favs, interesting new ones, and some random picks I know nothing about.

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Johnnie Jeanjean@norparjohnnie·7 Eki

All the cities in “Rotterdam” by Beautiful South are now Eurovision host cities.

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Matthew Bright@mbrightwriter·8 Eki

@ECthetwit So I know nothing about that one, other than it was recommended as an obscure one I’d enjoy, so I’m looking forward to watching it without a single preconception.

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Matthew Bright@mbrightwriter·8 Eki

Octoberwatch Day 7: one of my all time fav horror films. Watched it on an iPad in a pitch dark room on my own and THIS WAS A MISTAKE.

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Matthew Bright@mbrightwriter·7 Eki

Octoberwatch Day 6 — we’ve gone off book. 45 minutes was not long enough.

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Matthew Bright@mbrightwriter·6 Eki

@DidymusBrush God I hate that view. Started watching in 2005, have since been back to the start and worked all the way back, and so did lots of others.

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Didymus Holmes - MOVED TO BLUESKY@DidymusBrush·6 Eki

Weird flex here against "New Series-bred viewers". I joined the show in the classic era. I love it all. But gawd, there are LOADS of fans who discovered the show since 2005 who know it all backwards and care far more than you're giving them credit for.

John Hughes@hughesjg

@DWpages £11 for a magazine? Not on your nelly! DWM really isn't needed anymore - a quarterly Special is enough. The Classic Series fans already know the history of the show, the New Series-bred viewers, for the most part, don't care. Any "news" is online or on the Big Finish website.

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Matthew Bright@mbrightwriter·6 Eki

Saw the new Time Traveller’s Wife musical tonight. Pros: beautiful staging, and it subtly tweaks the book ending. Cons: the musical would have been significantly improved by removing all of its music.

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Matthew Bright@mbrightwriter·5 Eki

@NathanBurgoine I think maybe I just wanted something different? I know that’s the cardinal sin of reviewing things. I expected more of a grander adventure, or something far more kid-horror.

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Matthew Bright@mbrightwriter·5 Eki

Octoberwatch Day 5: Nightbooks. First new viewing of the month. Fun visuals, but somehow disappointing. Worth it, just, for Krysten Ritter.

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@thewhitbybooks1 @RobinJarvis1963 @whitbybookshop @adaddinsane @octagontheatre @DidymusBrush @NathanBurgoine @elonmusk