Matt Gemmell
Thriller, Horror, and Suspense author
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- 562 from 19 Jan 2009 to 26 Oct 2026
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- weekly (78 in the last year)
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- personal blog
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- Mini-story: Shortages
- Mini-story: Translator
- various RSS feeds
- micro blog
- collection of free mini-stories
- Mini-story: Symptoms
- Mini-story: Symptoms
- Mini-story: Existential
- Three Hundred Stories Later
- Mini-story: Existential
- Article: Three Hundred Stories Later
- Mini-story: Burnout
- Mini-story: Burnout
- Mini-story: The Way
- Mini-story: The Way
- Mini-story: Obstacles
- Mini-story: Obstacles
- Mini-story: Time To Go
- Mini-story: Time To Go
- Mini-story: When You're Sleeping
- Mini-story: When You're Sleeping
- Mini-story: Report Card
- Mini-story: Report Card
- Mini-story: Again
- Mini-story: Again
- Mini-story: The History Section
- Mini-story: The History Section
- Mini-story: Knock Knock
- Mini-story: Knock Knock
- Mini-story: Left Behind
- Mini-story: Left Behind
- Mini-story: Dark Potentials
- Mini-story: Dark Potentials
- E-book Anthologies of Once Upon A Time
- Article: E-book Anthologies of Once Upon A Time
- Mini-story: Failsafe
- Mini-story: Failsafe
- Mini-story: Return
- Mini-story: Return
- Mini-story: One Silver Shilling
- Mini-story: One Silver Shilling
- Mini-story: Awake
- Mini-story: Awake
- Mini-story: Impediment
- Mini-story: The Ministry
- Mini-story: Squeezed
- Mini-story: Decision
- Mini-story: Inhabited
- Mini-story: Lights
- Mini-story: Hidden
- Mini-story: Fluent
- Mini-story: Bring Her Back
- Mini-story: Heavier
- Mini-story: Chiaroscuro
- Mini-story: The Major Arcana
- Mini-story: Despair was the gun
- Mini-story: Log of the UES Deo
- Mini-story: Lag
- Mini-story: Donkey
- Mini-story: Exile
- Mini-story: A Matter of Perspective
- Mini-story: Underground
- Liberty as Resistance
- Mini-story: The Mirror
- The Fallen Apple
- Mini-story: The Preponderance of Evidence
- Mini-story: The Calendar
- Mini-story: We Have Work
- Mini-story: Doing Time
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- Mini-story: Dogma
- Mini-story: Passing Through
- Mini-story: Chibber
- Mini-story: Mr. Scratch
- Mini-story: Non-local
- Mini-story: Paranoia
- Mini-story: Symbol
- Mini-story: The Repository
- Mini-story: Retirement
- Mini-story: Tribute
- Mini-story: The Gift of Time
- Mini-story: Transport
- Mini-story: The Fairness
- Mini-story: Influencers
- Mini-story: Faces
- Mini-story: Uncanny
- Mini-story: Stairs
- Mini-story: Foreign
- Mini-story: Ghost Streets
- Mini-story: The Old Gods
- Mini-story: Aleph
- Mini-story: Mysterious Ways
- Mini-story: Timing is Everything
- Introducing TextIndex
- Mini-story: Past Midnight
- Mini-story: The Last Place
- Mini-story: Heist
- Mini-story: Take Me Home
- Introducing FigureMark
- Mini-story: Check Engine
- Publishing a novel series with pandoc publish
- Mini-story: TCO
- Automating novel and anthology publishing
- Mini-story: Career Day
- Mini-story: Feline Fashion Show
- Mini-story: Long Jump
- pandoc publish
- Mini-story: Beauty
- Mini-story: High Hopes
- Emacs
- Mini-story: Mice
- Therapy
- Rethinking
- Mini-story: In the Lounge
- Mini-story: The Lamb
- Stop giving advice
- Mini-story: Non-conforming
- Eighty percent
- Mini-story: Patron of the Arts
- Mini-story: The Need-Fire
- Mini-story: Round the Corner
- Mini-story: The Chinese Room
- Mini-story: Still Looking
- Mini-story: The Shell of the Material
- Mini-story: Manager's Special
- Mini-story: Deadworlds
- Just Block
- Back to Mac
- Mini-story: Handshake
- Mini-story: Deadfall
- Mini-story: Old Enough
- Mini-story: Natives
- Mini-story: Conveyancing
- Mini-story: Fuel
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- Mini-story: Peace and Friendship
- Mini-story: Best Behaviour
- Mini-story: At Your Service
- Mini-story: Simple As That
- Mini-story: The Bridge
- Mini-story: Whatever Is Required
- Mini-story: Really Here
- Mini-story: Grease
- Two hundred stories
- Mini-story: Shuhari
- Mini-story: Inconsideration
- Mini-story: Structures
- Mini-story: In Evidence
- Mini-story: Enlightenment
- Mini-story: Fire Service
- Mini-story: The Puzzle
- Writing a Novel episode: Plotting vs Pantsing
- Mini-story: It Will Come To You
- Mini-story: The Archminister
- Writing a Novel episode: Finding the Idea
- Mini-story: Brush Your Teeth
- Jekyll Updated Content Plugin
- Mini-story: Dice
- Writing a Novel episode: Inspiration
- Mini-story: Catching Up
- 20 years
- Writing advice and story readings on YouTube
- Mini-story: Reading Time
- Writing a Novel episode: Motivation
- Mini-story: Natural Enemy
- Writing a Novel episode: Believing in Yourself
- Mini-story: Antisocial
- Mini-story: The Fear Shape
- Mini-story: Nine Mile Burn
- Mini-story: See Slow
- Mini-story: Insurance
- Mini-story: Lost to Time
- Mini-story: The Bad Colour
- Mini-story: Gaslight Pro
- Mini-story: Work Wife
- Micro blog
- JINX Bonus Scene and Insider Video
- Bonus scene for Jinx: In Tandem
- Mini-story: Point of Origin
- Mini-story: Repo
- KESTREL Bonus Scenes and Insider Videos
- Bonus scene for Changer: Plans for Christmas
- Bonus scene for Changer: Saying Goodbye
- Bonus scene for Toll: Keeping My Options Open
- Mini-story: Body Image
- Mini-story: Accessibility Settings
- Mini-story: Suitable Pastimes
- Mini-story: In the Presence of the Dead
- Mini-story: In the Ground
- Mini-story: The Hands Remember
- Mini-story: Advantageous
- Mini-story: Three At Most
- Mini-story: Sympathy
- Mini-story: Need a Lift
- Mini-story: The Pathogen
- Mini-story: For Starters
- Mini-story: Takeback
- Mini-story: Reset
- Mini-story: Too Sweet
- Mini-story: Be The Adult
- Mini-story: Culture Fit
- Trilogy sets of KESTREL books
- Mini-story: Prayer Room
- Mini-story: Target Demographic
- Mini-story: Teletype
- Mini-story: Inheritance
- Living Outlines
- JINX reviews are in
- Mini-story: In Endless Abundance
- Mini-story: Next Day Premium
- JINX is out now!
- JINX is finally here
- Mini-story: Menagerie
- Mini-story: Banshee
- Mini-story: Addicts
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- Mini-story: Naughty List
- Mini-story: Flickers
- Mini-story: No Response
- Mini-story: The Value of Things
- Kindle Scribe Planner
- Second Screen
- Mini-story: Role Model
- Mini-story: Talking to the Lights
- An Update
- Thumb Keys
- Mini-story: Cautionary Tale
- Home Row Mods
- Mini-story: The Quiet Carriage
- Mini-story: The Lighthouse
- Mini-story: Mr. Hideaway
- Mini-story: Early Breakfast
- Mini-story: Monkey Mask
- Mini-story: Big Boy Bed
- Mini-story: The Award
- Mini-story: Flags
- Mini-story: Preservative
- Mini-story: Women's Studies
- Mini-story: When the Lights Came On
- Mini-story: Chicken
- Podcast episode: Cover Design
- Mini-story: Accuracy and Precision
- Podcast episode: Front and Back Matter
- Mini-story: In the Desert
- Mini-story: The Gifted
- Podcast episode: Themes and Subtext
- Mini-story: God's Taxi
- Podcast episode: Editing
- Mini-story: Good Causes
- Podcast episode: The First Draft
- Mini-story: One Kind
- Mini-story: The Railway Station
- Mini-story: The Window to Winter
- Mini-story: Choose Your Curse
- Podcast episode: Outlining
- Mini-story: Michael Backwards
- Mini-story: On the Lightning
- Podcast episode: Truth
- Mini-story: A Lot In Common
- Podcast episode: Research
- Mini-story: Salinity
- Podcast episode: Chapters
- Mini-story: Heisenbug
- Podcast episode: Prologues and Epilogues
- Mini-story: Nudge
- Podcast episode: Plot and Structure
- Mini-story: Sweet and Sour Pork
- Podcast episode: Tools
- Feeds for this site
- Mini-story: Innocence
- Podcast episode: Routine
- Podcast episode: Plotting vs Pantsing
- Mini-story: Two Lifetimes
- Podcast episode: Finding the Idea
- Podcast episode: Inspiration
- Trouble With Writing Podcast
- Podcast episode: Motivation
- Mini-story: Fuzzy
- Podcast episode: An Introduction and a Pep Talk
- Authorship
- Mini-story: The Rose Window
- Mini-story: Baby Roberts
- Mini-story: Birthday Money
- Mini-story: Q-icide
- How To Like Things
- Mini-story: The Ferryman
- Identifying as an Artist
- Mini-story: The Etymology of Magic
- Prose Echoes
- Mini-story: Dear Sir
- Series Bibles
- Mini-story: Let's Get Started
- Makers
- Mini-story: A Magnificent Resonance
- Write Less
- Mini-story: Ray Cats
- New Gods
- Mini-story: Translator
- Mini-story: Chain of Evidence
- Learning How To Learn
- Mini-story: Making Things
- The Comma Dot Key
- Mini-story: Daughters of the Moon
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- The Problem With AI
- Mini-story: What You Seek
- Atomic Thoughts
- Mini-story: The Rehearsal
- Four Bars
- Mini-story: The Confessional
- Practice
- One Hundred Tales is out now!
- Mini-story: So Clearly
- Mini-story: My Business
- An evolved 34-key layout for iPadOS
- Middleshade Road for Hallowe'en
- Mini-story: The Portrait Gallery
- Mini-story: Sell A Cat To A Mouse
- Dot Scot
- Mini-story: Consequences
- Mini-story: Decisions, Decisions
- Mini-story: Going Once
- Mini-story: Bordertime
- Mini-story: Where the world is broken
- Mini-story: Tea
- Mini-story: Barrier Concept
- Mini-story: Encounter
- Mini-story: The Orchard
- Mini-story: Getting Older
- Mini-story: Maybe We Could
- Mini-story: Five Possibilities
- Mini-story: Undiscovered
- Mini-story: Hitmaker
- Mini-story: Warm Rain
- Mini-story: The Night Clinic
- Mini-story: Winner
- Editing
- Mini-story: Bubby
- Mini-story: Psychosomatic
- There's no perfect time
- Mini-story: Madness
- Write a crappy first draft
- Mini-story: Goat Paths
- Accent shame
- Mini-story: Blank
- Prologues and Epilogues
- Mini-story: More Time
- Supernatural Objects
- Mini-story: Worship
- Verisimilitude
- 30 Keys
- Mini-story: Pretend
- Art as Study
- Mini-story: How It Is Around Here
- Naming Characters
- Mini-story: Renewables
- Faces and Places
- Gaslighting
- Mini-story: Compatibility
- Getting Ideas for Stories
- Mini-story: Assembly
- Non-Zero Every Day
- Mini-story: Tactical
- Use the Right Tools
- Mini-story: Late
- Content Creation
- Mini-story: Paradise
- Once More Upon A Time is out now!
- Mentioning the War
- Mini-story: Erase
- Writing Dedications
- Mini-story: From Below
- Levelling up as a writer
- Mini-story: To the Bones
- Writing Techno-thrillers
- New ebook version of Once Upon A Time compendium
- Mini-story: Musicianship
- Scenes Now, Chapters Later
- Once Upon A Time Volume 6 is out
- Mini-story: Transformations
- Any Similarity
- On Proofreading
- Mini-story: Chugger
- Welcome to the new mattgemmell.com
- MIDDLESHADE ROAD is out now!
- Mini-story: Therapy
- Mini-story: Renewal
- Mini-story: Exempt
- Mini-story: Sleep
- Mini-story: The Attaché
- A split 34-key layout for iPadOS
- Mini-story: Opting Out
- Mini-story: The Way of Things
- The Corne Keyboard
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- Mini-story: Joy
- Mini-story: Gone
- Mini-story: Samaritan
- Mini-story: Lens
- Mini-story: Just What I Wanted
- Mini-story: Ornaments
- Mini-story: Neighbourhoods
- Mini-story: To Me, You Are A Window
- Mini-story: Customs
- Mini-story: Letter E
- Mini-story: Me Time
- Mini-story: Stakeholders
- Mini-story: Infringement
- Mini-story: Poignancies
- Mini-story: Twitcher
- Mini-story: Retrogenesis
- Mini-story: Patrol
- Mini-story: The Tradesman
- Mini-story: Beautiful Walls
- Compressing Your Keyboard
- Mini-story: Undeserving
- Mini-story: Like / Follow / Kill
- 40% Keyboard Layout for Writing
- Mini-story: Down Deep
- The Planck Keyboard
- Mini-story: The Tesseract
- Mini-story: Divergent
- Mini-story: Paper
- Mini-story: Biometrics
- Mini-story: Famous
- Mini-story: Enantiomorph
- Mini-story: Familiar
- Mini-story: Monsters
- Mini-story: I Remember Everything
- Mini-story: Slow
- Mini-story: Look The Other Way
- Mini-story: Ignite
- Mini-story: The Magician
- Mini-story: Next Stop
- Mini-story: Aliens
- Mini-story: The Forest
- Mini-story: Your Heart's Desire
- Mini-story: Burrowers
- Mini-story: Piety
- Mini-story: The Hotel
- Mini-story: Regarding My Work
- Mini-story: Justice System
- Mini-story: DNR
- Not Yet
- Free weekly short stories via email
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- Once Upon A Time autographed copies
- Publishing paperback novels with an iPad
- Beautiful paperback novels with Ulysses
- Once Upon A Time Volume 3
- Tools versus work
- Custom Prompts for Drafts
- Using Drafts as a local Wiki
- Keyboard-Driven Cross-Linking in Drafts
- Pointer Control
- In Theory
- Once Upon A Time Volume 2
- Once Upon A Time Volume 1
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2018 9
2017 9
2016 19
- Thoughts on Ulysses and Scrivener
- Using the iPad for: Writing Novels
- Using the iPad for: Web Development
- Lifting the Mouse
- Using the iPad for: Blogging with Jekyll
- Rediscovering the iPad
- CHANGER bonus chapter: Saying Goodbye
- Regulars
- Jangled
- Omen
- CHANGER paperbacks are now available!
- Reviews are in for CHANGER
- Stranger than fiction
- CHANGER is out now!
- Announcing CHANGER
- Shelf 7
- Writing in Markdown
- Conduit
- Superstition
2015 21
2014 26
- Haunted
- Aurora
- Craft
- Formerly
- In Winter
- True
- Sultans
- Fan Fiction
- Anthologies in Scrivener
- Raw Materials: Collected Essays
- Writing a novel: resolving plot issues e-book
- Writing a novel: resolving plot issues
- Genre shame
- Writing a novel: first draft
- Relative
- Letting go
- Staying creative
- Thinking slowly
- Working from home
- Taking credit
- Paths
- Profanity
- Own your words
- Empathy
- Raw materials
- Making changes