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Matt Mason - One Chaotic Author

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🖤🩶🤍💜 he/him Indie mixed genre horror and fantasy author fuelled by coffee and spite. #HorrorWritersChat co-host Cornwall, UK 🇬🇧 ⛔Blocking every 🇺🇸 politics-only account on sight ⛔ ⛔genAI⛔ https://chaoticauthor.carrd.co/ https://chaoticauthor.online/

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Matt Mason - One Chaotic Author @chaoticauthor.online · Aug 1

Sseeing as you all desperately want it to be autumn right now, I suppose it's acceptable to start promoting these 😂

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Angel's Mass: books2read.com/angelsmass
Bronze Carriage: books2read.com/bronzecarriage
James Hotel: mybook.to/jameshotel
Spooky S'weird: books2read.com/salmonweirder

Icy cracked background. Cover shows a sketch of a medieval church. Text: Angel's Mass: A Medieval Ghost Story. At Tintern Abbey in Wales, brother Edmund is an ordinary onk haunted by a man only he can see and hear. And Edmund will uncover a mystery that has consequences for everyone.

Creepy forest background image. Book cover shows a simple sketch of a horse and carriage. Text reads: The Small Bronze Carriage on the Mantelpiece: A Gothic Ghost Story. Two men who had not seen each other in decades. An 80-year-old tales of newlyweds travelling across the country to see family. Both encounters linked by one curious and mysterious artefact.

A rainy tarmac background. Book cover shows a simple sketch of a smal manor house. Text reads: The Residents of James Hotel: A 1970s Ghost Story. Stranded at the side of the road one stormy November night, Vince is offered a complimentary room by a local hotelier.

Creepy cemetery background. Book cover shows the same. Spooky Salmonweird: Tales from the village. From the Iron Age to WWII, thirteen spine tingling tales from the periods in which these supporting characters lived.

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Matt Mason - One Chaotic Author @chaoticauthor.online · 9h

Thank you, Martin

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Martin Shannon - Rare Book Author @martinshannon.bsky.social · 11h

This week's Martin finale goes out to @chaoticauthor.online. The man needs your help. He's bored, in a hospital, and low on the green. Send him messages and use this link to brighten his day. Without Matt, you'd never get to read my corny jokes. HORROR!

ko-fi.com/onechaoticau...

#HorrorWritersChat

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Matt Mason - One Chaotic Author @chaoticauthor.online · 9h

Thank you

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Matt Mason - One Chaotic Author @chaoticauthor.online · 9h

Thank you, Katherine!

Matt Mason - One Chaotic Author @chaoticauthor.online · 9h

Mow-zul.

Rhymes with "cow pull"

Matt Mason - One Chaotic Author @chaoticauthor.online · 9h

Mousehole

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 10h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Matt Mason - One Chaotic Author @chaoticauthor.online · 10h

Haha, I have lurked tonight. Not had the energy to participate but great questions!

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Matt Mason - One Chaotic Author @chaoticauthor.online · 10h

You two 😭

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Matt Mason - One Chaotic Author @chaoticauthor.online · 12h

Hi. Please don't resurrect old questions, it creates confusion. Please check the tag and feed for this week's questions 🙂

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Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 13h

Tonight, our ghostly socialites of #HorrorWritersChat! The Phantasmal Symposium is opening its withered doors for melodies that will shrivel all the living! You are invited, usual time.

Art by Jelle Husson, featuring a haunted monastery of many sharp-tipped towers scraping at the midnight sky. The largest is in the centre of the structure’s roof, whose walls are painted white. The monastery is located above a hilly terrain of dark stone and dark green moss. A stony, twisting road leads to the monastery.

Horror Writers Chat

The Symposium Invites You...

7PM BST
2PM EST

#HorrorWritersChat

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Matt Mason - One Chaotic Author @chaoticauthor.online · 13h

Thank you!

Matt Mason - One Chaotic Author @chaoticauthor.online · 14h

Yep, we need one here!

Matt Mason - One Chaotic Author @chaoticauthor.online · 14h

Oh dear. Those people are in for a shock as to how toxic it is over there.

But some people will put up with anything for a shitty algorithm if it means they don't have to do any actual graft over here (I suspect that's part of it)

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Eryn McCee @erynmccee.bsky.social · 17h

Hola, #HorrorWritersChat bods!
Just as a heads up, @chaoticauthor.online aka our marvellous Matt who co-hosts with me, won't be doing today and so we have a guest host covering.
So please follow @greethewriter.bsky.social and make them welcome! Thanks thanks.
Keep being scary!

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Matt Mason - One Chaotic Author @chaoticauthor.online · 17h

Two replies that I hid and blocked on the original post. One just posted a laugh emoji, the other said "you all realise he's scamming you, right?"

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Matt Mason - One Chaotic Author @chaoticauthor.online · Jun 8

Now The Residents of James Hotel is out, I get to add it to the banner.

Looking to read a book with asexual representation this Pride Month? I now have a collection with Booklinker for that!

Amazon links: mybook.to/acerep

Other links in replies (running out of space)

Banner showing four books until the heading Books With asexual representation. The ace pride flag is in the top corner (black, grey, white and purple stripes)

Book covers for Phobetor's Children, cover shows a mosaic against a dark forest (marked ace and demi rep) Roman science fiction horror

Shadows of Cathedral Lane, cover shows a silhouette of a woman inside a woman's head (marked demi rep) a contemporary humorous paranormal mystery

Angel's Mass, cover shows a simple sketch of a medieval church (marked ace rep)

The Residents of James Hotel, cover shows a simple sketch of a manor house (marked demi rep)

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Matt Mason - One Chaotic Author @chaoticauthor.online · 26d

Just add a fluffy jumper, cosy slippers, and a mug of your favourite hot beverage.

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Amazon: getbook.at/salmonweird
B2R: books2read.com/salmonweird
Itch: onechaoticauthor.itch.io/salmonweird
Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/s/ad689632a5

Salmonweird: A Cornish Crime Comedy Caper

A sunset beach scene, a quirky cover, autumn vibes, and a twist you won't see coming (this last bit isn't true, it's a genre marketing requirement)

Sunset background over the sea. Book cover shows a carving knife stabbing through a scone while jam and cream spills onto a table

When the young monk first saw a
strange scaly creature with fins but
no legs, he asked one of the elder
monks what it was. The elder monk
told him it was a salmon.

We have no reason to doubt the
elder monk’s piscine identification
skills. But to this young man who
had never seen a fish, anything
vaguely fish shaped was
henceforth “salmon.”

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Matt Mason - One Chaotic Author @chaoticauthor.online · 4d

"Edmund, find me"

That voice – real this time, and if his ears weren’t fooling him, the wind seemed to carry it from the church.

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Amazon: mybook.to/angelsmass
B2R: books2read.com/angelsmass
Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/s/80674cbdca
Itch: onechaoticauthor.itch.io/angels-mass

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 20h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Matt Mason - One Chaotic Author @chaoticauthor.online · 21h

Thank you again. Joys of being human with a physical (non bot) body 😂

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Matt Mason - One Chaotic Author @chaoticauthor.online · 21h

Thank you xxx

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Amelia Clark - Lover of Flagons @gingertotty.bsky.social · 22h

Meet Fenella Fuktoff - a Sweary card for irked women, menopausal or otherwise! season of the witch is ALL YEAR ROUND! Replete with FWOG & glittery Ruby slippers! She’ll hex your enemies fo sho

Cards:
etsy.com/uk/listing/1145076509

Prints:
ko-fi.com/s/f3623d8424

BLESSED BE! #bsnm #witch #spooky

Pissed off little witch card, fizzing with ire - saying Fucking Wank!

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Matt Mason - One Chaotic Author @chaoticauthor.online · 22h

Thank you kindly, everyone!

Last night was not great.

To the random accounts out there who think I'm a scammer... are scammers usually Good Reads verified authors who also sell those same books on Amazon? Do scammers usually have a whole website advertising the same services at the same prices?

Matt Mason - One Chaotic Author @chaoticauthor.online · 1d

I don't normally do this, but I've been burning the candle at both ends.

Other half had a major op earlier this year and now I'm in hospital for an investigation.

Regardless of what's wrong, I need rest, but I've had little work this year.

I'd appreciate if anyone is able to help out.

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Become a supporter of Matt Mason today!

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Matt Mason - One Chaotic Author @chaoticauthor.online · 1d

Thanks Shane. Yeah if it was that, they'd have operated by now with the level of pain I've had.

I've been in hospital about 30 hours now

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Matt Mason - One Chaotic Author @chaoticauthor.online · 1d

Thank you