Matthew Harrington
@mhaton.bsky.social
Product Manager by day
...but when I'm not that, I'm talking D&D, writing fantasy, and playing board games!
https://cardboardchampions.co.uk/
...but when I'm not that, I'm talking D&D, writing fantasy, and playing board games!
https://cardboardchampions.co.uk/
It's been a long few months. Stress, illness, surgery, recovery... These things are not especially conducive to writing, and neither is my own tired laziness.
But today I broke a cycle, and I feel great about that. 1690 words, and that's not much, but it's some. I'll take "some" over none.
But today I broke a cycle, and I feel great about that. 1690 words, and that's not much, but it's some. I'll take "some" over none.
October 5, 2025 at 10:21 AM
It's been a long few months. Stress, illness, surgery, recovery... These things are not especially conducive to writing, and neither is my own tired laziness.
But today I broke a cycle, and I feel great about that. 1690 words, and that's not much, but it's some. I'll take "some" over none.
But today I broke a cycle, and I feel great about that. 1690 words, and that's not much, but it's some. I'll take "some" over none.
Reposted by Matthew Harrington
The early reviews of DEATH BECOMES HER are just so inspiring. I can't believe I've written a book that received such positive comments. Thank you to all of you (friends and strangers) who took a chance on DEATH BECOMES HER.
Go read the full reviews: www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...
Go read the full reviews: www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...
July 18, 2025 at 5:41 PM
The early reviews of DEATH BECOMES HER are just so inspiring. I can't believe I've written a book that received such positive comments. Thank you to all of you (friends and strangers) who took a chance on DEATH BECOMES HER.
Go read the full reviews: www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...
Go read the full reviews: www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...
Reposted by Matthew Harrington
DEATH BECOMES HER is a paranormal murder mystery that features a mix of clean romance, occasional naughty language, and grotesque horror elements, set in an elite British University. A fast-paced story of first loves, rediscovery, and magic.
Get the first 5 chapters in the bio.
Get the first 5 chapters in the bio.
June 21, 2025 at 6:48 PM
DEATH BECOMES HER is a paranormal murder mystery that features a mix of clean romance, occasional naughty language, and grotesque horror elements, set in an elite British University. A fast-paced story of first loves, rediscovery, and magic.
Get the first 5 chapters in the bio.
Get the first 5 chapters in the bio.
Reposted by Matthew Harrington
I AM SO EXCITED‼️
The book proof actually looks so good! I was sure I messed up somewhere, because nothing ever gets done the first time, but so far it's perfect.
I only wish it didn't have the stupid line in the middle!😩
🏷️
#urbanfantasy #coverreveal #murdermystery #booksky #ghosts #darkacademia
The book proof actually looks so good! I was sure I messed up somewhere, because nothing ever gets done the first time, but so far it's perfect.
I only wish it didn't have the stupid line in the middle!😩
🏷️
#urbanfantasy #coverreveal #murdermystery #booksky #ghosts #darkacademia
May 22, 2025 at 11:31 AM
I AM SO EXCITED‼️
The book proof actually looks so good! I was sure I messed up somewhere, because nothing ever gets done the first time, but so far it's perfect.
I only wish it didn't have the stupid line in the middle!😩
🏷️
#urbanfantasy #coverreveal #murdermystery #booksky #ghosts #darkacademia
The book proof actually looks so good! I was sure I messed up somewhere, because nothing ever gets done the first time, but so far it's perfect.
I only wish it didn't have the stupid line in the middle!😩
🏷️
#urbanfantasy #coverreveal #murdermystery #booksky #ghosts #darkacademia
Reposted by Matthew Harrington
✨ COVER REVEAL ✨
Coming out 02 August 2025, but you can add it to your TBR right now:
shorturl.at/abVqF
🔮Urban Fantasy
🔮Dark Academia
🔮Paranormal Mystery
🔮Slow Burn Romance
Coming out 02 August 2025, but you can add it to your TBR right now:
shorturl.at/abVqF
🔮Urban Fantasy
🔮Dark Academia
🔮Paranormal Mystery
🔮Slow Burn Romance
May 3, 2025 at 10:40 PM
✨ COVER REVEAL ✨
Coming out 02 August 2025, but you can add it to your TBR right now:
shorturl.at/abVqF
🔮Urban Fantasy
🔮Dark Academia
🔮Paranormal Mystery
🔮Slow Burn Romance
Coming out 02 August 2025, but you can add it to your TBR right now:
shorturl.at/abVqF
🔮Urban Fantasy
🔮Dark Academia
🔮Paranormal Mystery
🔮Slow Burn Romance
No words this morning, but instead a few hours capturing everything I've been thinking about my world and its characters. One of my worst writing habits as a discovery writer is simply spewing out characters and concepts and then doing nothing with them, so this time I'm holding myself accountable.
April 20, 2025 at 10:56 AM
No words this morning, but instead a few hours capturing everything I've been thinking about my world and its characters. One of my worst writing habits as a discovery writer is simply spewing out characters and concepts and then doing nothing with them, so this time I'm holding myself accountable.
Ina has poured her blood (figuratively), sweat (figuratively) and tears (literally) into this book, and it's amazing to see it all come together. If you're interested in giving it a read and sharing your feedback, go sign up for an ARC!
Ina Harrington 🦦 Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Murder Mystery Author
@inaharrington.bsky.social
· Apr 16
Calling all ARC readers! ...Or just people who like reading urban fantasy. 👻🕵️♀️
I'm looking for people to read my book, no strings attached. Death Becomes Her is an urban fantasy, paranormal murder mystery at Banecroft, a prestigious British university.
ARC Form 👉 forms.gle/q2rtMfdPCH44...
I'm looking for people to read my book, no strings attached. Death Becomes Her is an urban fantasy, paranormal murder mystery at Banecroft, a prestigious British university.
ARC Form 👉 forms.gle/q2rtMfdPCH44...
April 16, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Ina has poured her blood (figuratively), sweat (figuratively) and tears (literally) into this book, and it's amazing to see it all come together. If you're interested in giving it a read and sharing your feedback, go sign up for an ARC!
Another Saturday, another chapter written. But I also deleted a chapter with righteous fury. So net zero chapters, but I'm still counting it as a win.
Another chapter or so tomorrow and I'll also be down at guilt-zero from barely writing last week. Baby steps.
Another chapter or so tomorrow and I'll also be down at guilt-zero from barely writing last week. Baby steps.
April 12, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Another Saturday, another chapter written. But I also deleted a chapter with righteous fury. So net zero chapters, but I'm still counting it as a win.
Another chapter or so tomorrow and I'll also be down at guilt-zero from barely writing last week. Baby steps.
Another chapter or so tomorrow and I'll also be down at guilt-zero from barely writing last week. Baby steps.
This weekend's writing resulted in... 500 words. No chapters there. Not great, but that's fine. If I'm going to spam Bluesky weekly with how much I'm writing, I need to own the bad weeks too.
Could I have written more? Yeah sure, but I didn't, and that's fine, sometimes the words aren't there.
Could I have written more? Yeah sure, but I didn't, and that's fine, sometimes the words aren't there.
April 7, 2025 at 7:33 AM
This weekend's writing resulted in... 500 words. No chapters there. Not great, but that's fine. If I'm going to spam Bluesky weekly with how much I'm writing, I need to own the bad weeks too.
Could I have written more? Yeah sure, but I didn't, and that's fine, sometimes the words aren't there.
Could I have written more? Yeah sure, but I didn't, and that's fine, sometimes the words aren't there.
A chapter and a half down today, and my brain is cooked - with a new apprenticeship launching this week and a ton of surrounding other work my brain is too overworked, but we're getting there.
We're now up to chapter 9, and yes, I'm using you as my writing log to hold myself accountable, fight me
We're now up to chapter 9, and yes, I'm using you as my writing log to hold myself accountable, fight me
March 30, 2025 at 11:42 AM
A chapter and a half down today, and my brain is cooked - with a new apprenticeship launching this week and a ton of surrounding other work my brain is too overworked, but we're getting there.
We're now up to chapter 9, and yes, I'm using you as my writing log to hold myself accountable, fight me
We're now up to chapter 9, and yes, I'm using you as my writing log to hold myself accountable, fight me
7 chapters down in the new book and feeling good 😊
Only writing at the weekends is agonisingly slow, but it's definitely better for my brain - if I write before work, my focus is shot for the rest of the day, and after work I have no more spoons left.
So this is my writing now, and I like it.
Only writing at the weekends is agonisingly slow, but it's definitely better for my brain - if I write before work, my focus is shot for the rest of the day, and after work I have no more spoons left.
So this is my writing now, and I like it.
March 25, 2025 at 7:13 PM
7 chapters down in the new book and feeling good 😊
Only writing at the weekends is agonisingly slow, but it's definitely better for my brain - if I write before work, my focus is shot for the rest of the day, and after work I have no more spoons left.
So this is my writing now, and I like it.
Only writing at the weekends is agonisingly slow, but it's definitely better for my brain - if I write before work, my focus is shot for the rest of the day, and after work I have no more spoons left.
So this is my writing now, and I like it.
Got started on Tome today, and despite a rocky start where I got buried in the usual smut and romance books that cover social media, I've found actual fantasy people and I'm actually really starting to like it now!
Scratches a different itch to Bluesky, so I'm slowly becoming a bit more social.
Scratches a different itch to Bluesky, so I'm slowly becoming a bit more social.
March 6, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Got started on Tome today, and despite a rocky start where I got buried in the usual smut and romance books that cover social media, I've found actual fantasy people and I'm actually really starting to like it now!
Scratches a different itch to Bluesky, so I'm slowly becoming a bit more social.
Scratches a different itch to Bluesky, so I'm slowly becoming a bit more social.
Why does this recipe want me to burn Gotham to the ground?
March 5, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Why does this recipe want me to burn Gotham to the ground?
Me: "Hey I'm actually focusing a bit today and getting stuff done"
Man with a drill the floor below me:
Me: "Wait what are you-"
Man with a drill the floor below me: WRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR (Also hey this will continue for a few hours)
Man with a drill the floor below me:
Me: "Wait what are you-"
Man with a drill the floor below me: WRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR (Also hey this will continue for a few hours)
March 4, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Me: "Hey I'm actually focusing a bit today and getting stuff done"
Man with a drill the floor below me:
Me: "Wait what are you-"
Man with a drill the floor below me: WRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR (Also hey this will continue for a few hours)
Man with a drill the floor below me:
Me: "Wait what are you-"
Man with a drill the floor below me: WRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR (Also hey this will continue for a few hours)
Forgot to post at the weekend, so doing it now:
Word count over the weekend came in at ~3700 words. Rebuilding the habit one weekend at a time!
As much as I wish I could write during the week, it ruins my ability to concentrate on my day job. So I'm a weekend writer now I guess!
Word count over the weekend came in at ~3700 words. Rebuilding the habit one weekend at a time!
As much as I wish I could write during the week, it ruins my ability to concentrate on my day job. So I'm a weekend writer now I guess!
March 3, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Forgot to post at the weekend, so doing it now:
Word count over the weekend came in at ~3700 words. Rebuilding the habit one weekend at a time!
As much as I wish I could write during the week, it ruins my ability to concentrate on my day job. So I'm a weekend writer now I guess!
Word count over the weekend came in at ~3700 words. Rebuilding the habit one weekend at a time!
As much as I wish I could write during the week, it ruins my ability to concentrate on my day job. So I'm a weekend writer now I guess!
Authors outside of the romance genre - what are your thoughts on trope maps? (those posts that are the book cover surrounded by tropes and random snippets of information)
I know they're a thing in romance that's leaking heavily, I'm trying to see how much and whether anyone actually likes them.
I know they're a thing in romance that's leaking heavily, I'm trying to see how much and whether anyone actually likes them.
March 1, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Authors outside of the romance genre - what are your thoughts on trope maps? (those posts that are the book cover surrounded by tropes and random snippets of information)
I know they're a thing in romance that's leaking heavily, I'm trying to see how much and whether anyone actually likes them.
I know they're a thing in romance that's leaking heavily, I'm trying to see how much and whether anyone actually likes them.
So. Damn. Pretty.
Ina Harrington 🦦 Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Murder Mystery Author
@inaharrington.bsky.social
· Feb 28
Been having too much fun playing around with the sketch of my cover. I am just so IN LOVE with those ghosts. ❤️ And they are not even the centre piece!
March 1, 2025 at 7:03 PM
So. Damn. Pretty.
Today's startling discovery: People online assuming that em-dashes mean AI writing, and calling them out. Wtf? I need a thread to rant about this a little. Feel free to ignore me.🧵
February 24, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Today's startling discovery: People online assuming that em-dashes mean AI writing, and calling them out. Wtf? I need a thread to rant about this a little. Feel free to ignore me.🧵
True to my word, I sat down this morning in our local Costa and bashed out a couple thousand words over a white hot chocolate with a shot of caramel (seriously, try it).
It's liberating. I finally feel like I'm regaining control of my brain again, even if I'm still mentally exhausted. More!
It's liberating. I finally feel like I'm regaining control of my brain again, even if I'm still mentally exhausted. More!
February 22, 2025 at 12:06 PM
True to my word, I sat down this morning in our local Costa and bashed out a couple thousand words over a white hot chocolate with a shot of caramel (seriously, try it).
It's liberating. I finally feel like I'm regaining control of my brain again, even if I'm still mentally exhausted. More!
It's liberating. I finally feel like I'm regaining control of my brain again, even if I'm still mentally exhausted. More!
I'm in this story and I don't like it
Exhausted Friends Slowly Realize They Were Playing Board Game Wrong Entire 6 Hours
Exhausted Friends Slowly Realize They Were Playing Board Game Wrong Entire 6 Hours
MILWAUKEE—Growing more despondent as each turn brought them no closer to a conclusion, an exhausted group of friends was reportedly coming to the realization Friday that they had been playing the boar...
theonion.com
February 21, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I'm in this story and I don't like it
Helping my wife to edit her debut novel for self-publishing later this year (reminder: go follow her over on @inaharrington.bsky.social) has really got me thinking about writing "properly" again.
I feel bad about leaving my few readers hanging with my own book. Maybe it's time for book 2...
I feel bad about leaving my few readers hanging with my own book. Maybe it's time for book 2...
February 20, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Helping my wife to edit her debut novel for self-publishing later this year (reminder: go follow her over on @inaharrington.bsky.social) has really got me thinking about writing "properly" again.
I feel bad about leaving my few readers hanging with my own book. Maybe it's time for book 2...
I feel bad about leaving my few readers hanging with my own book. Maybe it's time for book 2...
Ohhhh we've got this notion that we'd quite like to sail the ocean, so we're building a big boat to leave here for good. 🎶
Black and White randomly living rent-free in my head this morning 23 years later. Music is basically brain-hacking.
Black and White randomly living rent-free in my head this morning 23 years later. Music is basically brain-hacking.
February 20, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Ohhhh we've got this notion that we'd quite like to sail the ocean, so we're building a big boat to leave here for good. 🎶
Black and White randomly living rent-free in my head this morning 23 years later. Music is basically brain-hacking.
Black and White randomly living rent-free in my head this morning 23 years later. Music is basically brain-hacking.
"You are approaching the top of the titration list"
After over 2 years of waiting since finally getting diagnosed, it seems I'm finally getting ADHD medication! I wonder who I'll be with drugs instead of inadequate coping mechanisms that fold immediately to stress... Exciting, but scary.
After over 2 years of waiting since finally getting diagnosed, it seems I'm finally getting ADHD medication! I wonder who I'll be with drugs instead of inadequate coping mechanisms that fold immediately to stress... Exciting, but scary.
an older woman is crying and says it 's been 84 years
ALT: an older woman is crying and says it 's been 84 years
media.tenor.com
February 19, 2025 at 2:17 PM
"You are approaching the top of the titration list"
After over 2 years of waiting since finally getting diagnosed, it seems I'm finally getting ADHD medication! I wonder who I'll be with drugs instead of inadequate coping mechanisms that fold immediately to stress... Exciting, but scary.
After over 2 years of waiting since finally getting diagnosed, it seems I'm finally getting ADHD medication! I wonder who I'll be with drugs instead of inadequate coping mechanisms that fold immediately to stress... Exciting, but scary.
Reposted by Matthew Harrington
It's time to start talking about my book, coming out later this year, so here goes:
🔮"I’ve experienced death more times than anyone ever could in a lifetime... Even 4000 miles away from home, Death still followed me."
🔮"I’ve experienced death more times than anyone ever could in a lifetime... Even 4000 miles away from home, Death still followed me."
February 18, 2025 at 1:45 PM
It's time to start talking about my book, coming out later this year, so here goes:
🔮"I’ve experienced death more times than anyone ever could in a lifetime... Even 4000 miles away from home, Death still followed me."
🔮"I’ve experienced death more times than anyone ever could in a lifetime... Even 4000 miles away from home, Death still followed me."