Matt Cook

You don’t get one of these every day… Chuffed to bits with this review in The Spectator for LIFE ON OTHER PLANETS.

Here’s part 2 of our chat where we get stuck into the book itself.

Fellow Lendal Press author Marc Nash kindly offered to record a discussion of us both talking about books and LIFE ON OTHER PLANETS. It was so good he made it into a two parter. You can watch Part 1 where we talk about what we’re currently reading along with books and writers that have influenced… Continue reading TALKING BOOKS WITH MARC NASH

So if you missed me chatting about writing and LIFE ON OTHER PLANETS at Writing on the Wall’s 21st writing festival – WoWFest21 – never fear. You can watch it all again here. First there was my panel discussion for WoWFest21 with Rónán Hession, Rachel Genn, Jacob Ross and James Corbett. Then there was the… Continue reading THERE I WAS AT WOWFEST21

So it’s been an emotional day. First delivery taken of LIFE ON OTHER PLANETS…very very exciting!

Which is very much no longer news since it happened way back in August 2020, but I forgot to blog about it when it happened. It was fantastic to get that far and you can read the story on the TSS site here…

So Life on Other Planets is now being released in the UK on June 10th to create a bit of breathing room for publicity. One of the nicest things I’ll be doing is joining panels at WoWFest21, 6 years after being a finalist in the Pulp Idol Competition that gave my first chapter the momentum… Continue reading New release date, new events

So Life on Other Planets will burst squinting into the light on May 6th with the help of one of the newest indies on the block, Lendal Press, and their stellar team. The book launch will be a mash up with the 2021 WOWFest Pulp Idol final, which is very exciting, and hopefully there will… Continue reading Life on Other Planets: landing May 6th

Way back in November 2019 I was asked to join a panel at the Books on Tyne Festival hosted by Newcastle Libraries to discuss our Books for the Apocalypse. Lots of jokes were made about the poor weather, though none of us could have known the horrors that lay in wait in 2020. Still, it… Continue reading Books for the End of the World – Newcastle Book Festival 2019