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Matthew Siadak
@backwardsknight.com
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Author of stories Eldritch, Fantasy, and Horror. Crow. Lost Boy. Dreamer of dreams. I love to cook, play TTRPGs, etc. I tinker, making jam and soap.

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Signed books! https://backwardsknight.bigcartel.com
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Matthew Siadak @backwardsknight.com · 9d
What super power would YOU choose, knowing it comes with a cost??? Check out my poll!

The Dark Side of Super audio book is going swimmingly, but there's still much to do.

We are working towards epic, ultra-mega stretch goals. Check it out!

#BookBazaar25 #BookSky

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Question: What super power do you want?
Vote now for The Dark Side of Super Audio Book on @BackerKit!
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amaralynn.bsky.social
8 days remaining, we're a bit behind on funding... Come back it now for exclusive art rewards!

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#booksky #tbb25 #thebookbazaar25 #crowdfunding #scifi #queerbooks #lgbtqbooks #indieauthor #alienromance #romance #aliens #audiobooks #queerscifi
November 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Back the campaign here: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/t...
The Dark Side of Super Audio Book
The Dark Side of Super is an interconnected collection of super-powered shorts. Each features a dark, gritty, realistic take on powers, and adding another layer to the larger story arc being told. Loo...
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November 25, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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We're ending the day with an interview with @backwardsknight.com, author of The Dark Side of Super, an interconnected collection of super-powered shorts, as he runs his crowdfund campaign for an audiobook as part of @the-book-bazaar.com:

www.readindiefantasy.com/amorar-inter... #AMoRaR
A blue dragon in the background with the logo to The Book Bazaar and a promo image for The Dark Side of Super. The text says An Interview with Matthew Siadak.
November 25, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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kelefox.bsky.social
'The Inheritance Experiment' is another bonus story included in Operation: Chocolate Overload. First printed in 2018, it won the publisher's Editor's Choice award.

And yeah. While Keraun's tale is fun shenanigans, Donovan's is grim misery all the way down 😢

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She washed the blood off her hands and arms in the Holy Water font, discarded her clothes on the floor of the baptistry and donned one of the spare abbot robes hanging in a closet in the office. ‘Donovan’ was stitched into a label on the inside of the collar. It was as good a name as any. The Inheritance Experiment Operation: Chocolate Overload
November 25, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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the-book-bazaar.com
Pledge now! www.backerkit.com/c/collection...

(Thanks @amaralynn.bsky.social !)
Trade offer! We receive The Book Bazaar Pledges. You receive back any 5 projects get the exclusive anthology!
November 20, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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fiversdream.bsky.social
Giving this another boost for the evening crowd! We're sitting at 1/3 of our goal and I need your help to get the rest of the way. Pledge levels include:

-Just the e-book of GULA
-The e-book set of THE SINGULARITY, CARRION CITY and GULA (all very much thematically connected)
fiversdream.bsky.social Elliott Dunstan @fiversdream.bsky.social · 8d
Help me fund epic poem GULA: A Poem For The End Times on BackerKit! A modernist/post-modernist long-form poem, GULA explores Carrion City, a place where the lost and forsaken end up and rarely leave -- a mirror city to the world of the beloved and treasured.

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A black and white cityscape with difficult to read cursive text in the black sky behind it (for the curious, it's gestalt-usury-limerence-augury), and GULA in capitals above. The city is reflected below in distorted RGB, and there are silhouettes of people falling from one city to the other. Below, in the RGB, is ELLIOTT DUNSTAN.
November 25, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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backwardsknight.com
Happy Monday, friends! Time is flying. We're now at 9 days until #BookBazaar25 ends.

The Dark Side of Super's audio book, while funded, still has plenty of room for more heroes!

There's swag, books, art prints, and more!

Spread the word, #Booksky, and let's go!

www.backerkit.com/c/projects/t...
Image of the cover for The Dark Side of Super audio book by Matthew Siadak; a red-hue cityscape. Top/bottom text reads: 161.3333% funded. Let's get that higher. Stretch goals, baby!! Spread the word. Be my hero. Let's go!!"
November 24, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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amaralynn.bsky.social
Thanks to another pledge we're at 41% funded now!

Let's gooo! And don't forget there's e-book, paperback, and hardback tiers, as well as exclusive art up for grabs!

www.backerkit.com/c/projects/a...

#booksky #tbb25 #thebookbazaar25 #crowdfunding #queerscifi #lgbtqbooks #indieauthor #alienromance
November 25, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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valwrites.ca
I didn't spend all this time making trailers not to make fun of them. If you think you can heckle me better than i can you gotta show up and prove me wrong
the-book-bazaar.com The Book Bazaar - LIVE NOW until Dec 3rd 2026! @the-book-bazaar.com · 1d
TONIGHT AT 6 PM EST! Come join us as we live react to The Book Bazaar trailers. 😀 Twitch.tv/thebookbazaar
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November 24, 2025 at 8:31 PM
backwardsknight.com
AYOOOOOOOO! It's (finally?) new episode day for @dmiwpodcast.com! Come watch and laugh at / with @danqwritesthing.bsky.social and @dinasaurusd.com as @producersean.bsky.social wrangles them!

youtu.be/DwBUMylXpSA
Ep. 124: The One With K.T. Carlisle
YouTube video by Don't Make It Weird Podcast
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November 24, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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aimeecozza.com
The 6th tier is: 2 physical paperback copies of The Lucky Machine AND The Warm Machine, a digital copy of both, & 2 paperdolls. Approx 190 pages. Supplemental illustrations in the book, & short story “GYT4355 Quick Start Guide”. Comes with paper doll! 🤖 TheLuckyMachine.com

#Scifi #Booksky #TLM
Both paperback books, digital books, 2 paper dolls: $45, with colorful mockups of each
November 24, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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amaralynn.bsky.social
Art update #2! Remember you have to back to see the update and pledge $20+ to receive the finished art!

www.backerkit.com/c/projects/a...

#booksky #tbb25 #thebookbazaar25 #crowdfunding #scifi #queerbooks #lgbtqbooks #indieauthor #alienromance #romance #aliens #audiobooks
Gems and Star Flowers Audiobook Campaign Project Update: Art Update #2!
Time for the other art update!  Remember if you want to receive the finished art you have to pledge $20 or more!
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November 24, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Happy Monday, dear readers! 🌟 As we dive into the week, I can't help but feel the excitement for all the stories waiting to be discovered. Every book has its own magic, just like The Dark Side of Super! Let’s support our
backwardsknight.com Matthew Siadak @backwardsknight.com · 1d
Happy Monday, friends! Time is flying. We're now at 9 days until #BookBazaar25 ends.

The Dark Side of Super's audio book, while funded, still has plenty of room for more heroes!

There's swag, books, art prints, and more!

Spread the word, #Booksky, and let's go!

www.backerkit.com/c/projects/t...
Image of the cover for The Dark Side of Super audio book by Matthew Siadak; a red-hue cityscape. Top/bottom text reads: 161.3333% funded. Let's get that higher. Stretch goals, baby!! Spread the word. Be my hero. Let's go!!"
November 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
backwardsknight.com
Also as part of The Book Bazaar, go check out this project! This looks absolutely amazing.
amaralynn.bsky.social AmaraJLynn💎🌌🌺BACK NOW: GEMS & STAR FLOWERS! @amaralynn.bsky.social · 7d
A lonely ex-lab subject on the run, a sweet failed mercenary trying to move on, an exploration of each other through space.

Help fund the audiobook and get exclusive content!

www.backerkit.com/c/projects/a...

#queerscifi #scifi #booksky #books #audiobooks #tbb25 #thebookbazaar25 #ad
A blue space background with a large planet taking up the right side and a spaceship along the bottom. In the center is the cover of Gems and Star Flowers by Amara Lynn and Primrose Song, which has a space scene with a planet taking up the right half and a space ship along the body. In the center is an illustration of two people. The one on the left has brown hair, white skin with pearls scattered on his arms, and wears goggles, a dark blue shirt, brown pants, and dark brown shoes. The person the the left has purple floral skin, light blue hair with purple streaks, a pink shirt, and purple pants. Text at top of the graphic reads: Back it now. On the bottom is a logo of fanned out book and text the book bazaar.
November 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
backwardsknight.com
Happy Monday, friends! Time is flying. We're now at 9 days until #BookBazaar25 ends.

The Dark Side of Super's audio book, while funded, still has plenty of room for more heroes!

There's swag, books, art prints, and more!

Spread the word, #Booksky, and let's go!

www.backerkit.com/c/projects/t...
Image of the cover for The Dark Side of Super audio book by Matthew Siadak; a red-hue cityscape. Top/bottom text reads: 161.3333% funded. Let's get that higher. Stretch goals, baby!! Spread the word. Be my hero. Let's go!!"
November 24, 2025 at 1:50 PM
backwardsknight.com
Good morning, friends! Think of the dolphins.
Meme image of a worker in a cranberry farm, with a dolphin swimming near them. Text reads: Please ask for dolphin-free cranberries this Thanksgiving. Every year, at least 12,000 cranberry bog dolphins are scooped into nets and canned. Make this year different."
November 24, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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backwardsknight.com
I took a few days off from screaming unto the void, but I'm back. Are you aware of #BookBazaar25?

22 projects banding together for the ultimate hype train. Including my campaign for The Dark Side of Super's audio book.

While we are funded, there are stretch goals to heroically smash, #BookSoky!
The Dark Side of Super Audio Book
The Dark Side of Super is an interconnected collection of super-powered shorts. Each features a dark, gritty, realistic take on powers, and adding another layer to the larger story arc being told. Loo...
www.backerkit.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:07 PM
backwardsknight.com
Snipped from The Forgotten Princess, sequel to The Backwards Knight.

#TBBPrompt #BookBazaar25
Snippet image, text reads: “Start a fire or get ready to cuddle up.” Orn smirked. That gave Laela pause, her fists clenching at her sides. Worry, maybe even fear, wrote a story he hated to read across her face, the veneer cracking as they stood there in the quiet rush of water, bathed in the weak light from above. “Don’t leave me.” Laela stepped closer. “I won’t, princess.” But he did. Orn turned away from her, diving into the water. But not before he heard his name, from her lips. “Orn.”
November 23, 2025 at 9:57 PM
backwardsknight.com
I was able to de-gunkify the charging connectors and they work, so that's good at least.
backwardsknight.com Matthew Siadak @backwardsknight.com · 2d
One of my ear buds might be dead dead.

Shit. On a walk, could use some music. Ah well nature is nice too.
November 23, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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amaralynn.bsky.social
First art update!! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/a...

#booksky #tbb25 #thebookbazaar25 #crowdfunding #scifi #queerbooks #lgbtqbooks #indieauthor #alienromance #romance #aliens #audiobooks
Gems and Star Flowers Audiobook Campaign Project Update: Art update!!
First art update! Did I start the spicy one first because I was excited..  yes. You'll have to back if you want to see it 😜  Get those pledges in! There's still a lot of f...
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November 23, 2025 at 8:31 PM
backwardsknight.com
One of my ear buds might be dead dead.

Shit. On a walk, could use some music. Ah well nature is nice too.
November 23, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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LIVE NOW: The Book Bazaar 2025 is funding 20+ indie author projects across many mediums within all sorts of genres! Support us until Dec 3rd to make an indie do a happy dance! This $ directly supports small creators & doesn't go to Bezos' next yacht ➡️

#Booksky #BookBazaar25 #IndieAuthor #ShopSmall
The Book Bazaar 2025 on BackerKit
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November 19, 2025 at 5:59 PM
backwardsknight.com
I took a few days off from screaming unto the void, but I'm back. Are you aware of #BookBazaar25?

22 projects banding together for the ultimate hype train. Including my campaign for The Dark Side of Super's audio book.

While we are funded, there are stretch goals to heroically smash, #BookSoky!
The Dark Side of Super Audio Book
The Dark Side of Super is an interconnected collection of super-powered shorts. Each features a dark, gritty, realistic take on powers, and adding another layer to the larger story arc being told. Loo...
www.backerkit.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:07 PM
backwardsknight.com
Good morning, friends!
Meme image, text reads: "ok ok what vibes do I give off? (pick one from each row") Bottom is Posssum, 1. Skunk 2. Raccoon, 3. Fox, 4. Beer, A. Whiskey, B. Wine, C. Vodka, D. Flannel, 1. Fur-collar jean jacket, 2. Leather jacket, 3. Puffy vest, 4.
November 23, 2025 at 12:48 PM
backwardsknight.com
I backed this and you should to! Who doesn't love fae stories?!
spookyxpickle.bsky.social Author Machelle Berglund 💛🤍💜🖤-Follow Fairy Seasons on Backerkit @spookyxpickle.bsky.social · 2d
#tbbchat, I also love to eat books. Mmm... yummy words.

I have some tasty words coming hot out of the oven. Funding for it is happening. Right now. A cool thing called Fairy Seasons.

Please share and / or check it out, maybe do a pledge... or don't.

Unless...? 🥰

www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...
November 23, 2025 at 2:17 AM