Add me to your Twitter!

Share I've managed to finagle about 40 followers from the additive "microblogging" site Twitter - microblogging because you are limited to a very short post. Shouldn't that be what blogging is anyway?

Twitter walks the fine line between addictive and utterly pointless, as you fire off one message after another into the void, perhaps to be read, perhaps not. Every now and then someone sends you a direct message and reminds you that one-on-one communication is still possible in the digital age. So I persevere with Twitter!

Add me to your own Twitter - and I might read a message from you now and then, if I can identify it from all the others, that is!

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Kerouac House - I am Alternate!

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I am pleased to say I am the alternate choice to live in Jack Kerouac's old house for 3 months! The Kerouac House in Orlando, Florida, is the house Kerouac lived in with his mother when On The Road was published, made him famous, and where he subsequently wrote The Dharma Bums!

If Brian Turner, the soldier-poet known for his 2005 poetry volume Here, Bullet decides not to live in the house (from June-August 2009), I am first alternate choice!

Voila the house!

The Kerouac House is now run by the Kerouac Project of Orlando at http://www.kerouacproject.org/ Plus you can tour the Kerouac House here.

I recommend the Jack Kerouac biography called Memory Babe (his childhood nickname)- the most readable and detailed biography in my view. More about Jack can be found here.

Kerouac House - I am Alternate!

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I am pleased to say I am the alternate choice to live in Jack Kerouac's old house for 3 months! The Kerouac House in Orlando, Florida, is the house Kerouac lived in with his mother when On The Road was published, made him famous, and where he subsequently wrote The Dharma Bums!

If Brian Turner, the soldier-poet known for his 2005 poetry volume Here, Bullet decides not to live in the house (from June-August 2009), I am first alternate choice!

Voila the house!

The Kerouac House is now run by the Kerouac Project of Orlando at http://www.kerouacproject.org/ Plus you can tour the Kerouac House here.

I recommend the Jack Kerouac biography called Memory Babe (his childhood nickname)- the most readable and detailed biography in my view. More about Jack can be found here.

Matt wins Unpublished Novel Competition!

Share Bookhabit.com is pleased to announce the winner of the inaugural Bookhabit Unpublished Competition is Matt Fullerty's The Pride and the Sorrow. Matt receives a US$5000 prize and is "thrilled" about winning the first Bookhabit competition. We will be posting an interview with Matt on Bookhabit.com shortly. Congratulations from Bookhabit! You can see full details with an endorsement of the novel at http://www.bookhabit.com/newsdetail.php?nid=48

The Pride and the Sorrow is the story of Paul Morphy (1837-1884), born in New Orleans as a chess prodigy, his famous journey through Europe and his ultimate downfall on and off the chessboard. He is celebrated in fashionable European society, honored by Napoleon III of France and Queen Victoria of England and returns to New Orleans a local celebrity, only to find Civil War looming, a storm brewing in his family and his own mind coming apart ...

The novel itself is available at http://bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=459

Matt wins Unpublished Novel Competition!

Share Bookhabit.com is pleased to announce the winner of the inaugural Bookhabit Unpublished Competition is Matt Fullerty's The Pride and the Sorrow. Matt receives a US$5000 prize and is "thrilled" about winning the first Bookhabit competition. We will be posting an interview with Matt on Bookhabit.com shortly. Congratulations from Bookhabit! You can see full details with an endorsement of the novel at http://www.bookhabit.com/newsdetail.php?nid=48

The Pride and the Sorrow is the story of Paul Morphy (1837-1884), born in New Orleans as a chess prodigy, his famous journey through Europe and his ultimate downfall on and off the chessboard. He is celebrated in fashionable European society, honored by Napoleon III of France and Queen Victoria of England and returns to New Orleans a local celebrity, only to find Civil War looming, a storm brewing in his family and his own mind coming apart ...

The novel itself is available at http://bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=459

Novel's first interview - thanks Clare!

Share A 23-minute interview with Matt is now available through http://www.reviewyak.com/ with Clare Tanner of the Bookhabit Show. "Every month over 20,000 listeners download our podcasts for The Bookhabit Show where we tell the author's story behind the story."

Novel's first interview - thanks Clare!

Share A 23-minute interview with Matt is now available through http://www.reviewyak.com/ with Clare Tanner of the Bookhabit Show. "Every month over 20,000 listeners download our podcasts for The Bookhabit Show where we tell the author's story behind the story."

Facebook - add me to your friends!

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Help me go for the big 100!

American Wedding Trip!

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American Wedding Trip!

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My Space - add me to your friends!

Share Click on the link and help me go for the big...er...20!

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Chess nut?

Share Click on the chessboard to discover my chess novel set in New Orleans, about lost American chess world champion, Paul Morphy!

You can also check out Paul's family and chess competitors at my website.

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Chess nut?

Share Click on the chessboard to discover my chess novel set in New Orleans, about lost American chess world champion, Paul Morphy!

You can also check out Paul's family and chess competitors at my website.

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I love your accent, England

Share This one's for you, Ashley.

"D-V-D"!

I love your accent, England

Share This one's for you, Ashley.

"D-V-D"!

I enter the merchandising business!

Share Recently I discovered a great site called CafePress where you can set up a free account and basically open your own shop!
Of course, I just had to make some T-shirts for my novel, The Pride and the Sorrow. Kind of ridiculous, but I enjoyed making them!

You can see my shop here for the title (www.cafepress.com/mattfullerty) and here for the book cover (www.cafepress.com/prideandsorrow). Crazy!

Products range from T-shirts and sweaters to clocks and beer steins! Check please!

There's even a "throw pillow"!

Katie and me in Austin, TX

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Remember secondary school?

Share Roaming around the internet the other day, I decided to look up my old school, something I hadn't done in a long time. What did I find? It hadn't changed! I guess these places never do, at least to the external visitor who can't actually tread on the presmises at a moment's notice.

Just seeing the school logo was enough to bring it all back! I spent 7 years at Manchester Grammar School, a large independent school in the heart of Manchester, and I have to say the experience overall was a successful one - but not always 100% happy, that's for sure. Who can actually say their schooldays were the best days of their lives?

I remember my English teacher, recently retired Mr. Myers, once telling us off in class one day. He was saying how lucky we were (and we were) to go to a good school, and that the university time we craved to begin, only a few short months away, would be the happiest days of our lives - so why didn't we all shut up and do some work? I remember the moment because he said how we could be someone on the street in Manchester without the support of the school, and here we were wasting our time! Then we went back to reading Hamlet.

Anyway, the enblem is now part of me - the owl waving in a merry, slightly self-knowing way. On my school blazer (worn for the first 5 years) the owl had a scroll in its mouth - with the word DOM written on it, a very bad pun supposed to indicate that the school was founded by Hugh Oldham (owl-dom, see) in 1515. But I prefer the owl's expression, and nowadays I like to think of him as waving me goodbye, onward, because in some ways Mr. Myers was right, university is a release from school!

Faith Will Be Rewarded!

Share The Boss, back in the early days!

Looks like he strayed out of Asbury Park into the Big Apple. Hope he finds his way home!

Faith Will Be Rewarded!

Share The Boss, back in the early days!

Looks like he strayed out of Asbury Park into the Big Apple. Hope he finds his way home!

Dr. Jennifer Mary Fullerty

Share After taking her B.A. and M.A. (in Education), my mother has managed to secure her Ph.D. (also in Education) - a year ago - faster than I did. Once upon a time I was at college and my mother was a graduate of Liverpool Teacher Training College - now she is a school governor and member of a secret society called the Siroptomists!

Heads off to that!

Austin, Texas - get him to the church on time!

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Austin, Texas Wedding! (American Wedding 2008)

Share Last weekend I did my job as Best Man at my buddy's (US) / mate's (UK) John (Boy) Shaw's wedding, which he had in Austin, Texas baby!

It was a beautiful, lavish and memorable weekend. The boy Shaw, the dreamer-schemer romanic-believer, stepped up and characterisitically lacking in nerves, hitched his wagon to the girl from Richmond, Texas. I made sure the ring was there.

Good luck to Malcolm and Alana who got married the very next day in a helicopter flying over the Las Vegas Strip. We wish we could have kept the party going in Vegas (baby)!

Austin, though, proved to be a fun town - if you're not in the bars on 6th street, the mad ones, you're in the cool open-air ranch bars of 4th street with the slightly older crowd. It was the first day of class and suddenly there were 8-9000 students on these streets. We naturally wore our Road Trip (American Wedding 2008) T-shirts and cowboy hats. Is there such a thing as a British Urban cowboy?

Congrats to the Nunans-Shaws and the Duncansons!

Austin, Texas Wedding! (American Wedding 2008)

Share Last weekend I did my job as Best Man at my buddy's (US) / mate's (UK) John (Boy) Shaw's wedding, which he had in Austin, Texas baby!

It was a beautiful, lavish and memorable weekend. The boy Shaw, the dreamer-schemer romanic-believer, stepped up and characterisitically lacking in nerves, hitched his wagon to the girl from Richmond, Texas. I made sure the ring was there.

Good luck to Malcolm and Alana who got married the very next day in a helicopter flying over the Las Vegas Strip. We wish we could have kept the party going in Vegas (baby)!

Austin, though, proved to be a fun town - if you're not in the bars on 6th street, the mad ones, you're in the cool open-air ranch bars of 4th street with the slightly older crowd. It was the first day of class and suddenly there were 8-9000 students on these streets. We naturally wore our Road Trip (American Wedding 2008) T-shirts and cowboy hats. Is there such a thing as a British Urban cowboy?

Congrats to the Nunans-Shaws and the Duncansons!

Picture (for no reason at all) #3

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Picture (for no reason at all) #3

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More reviews of The Pride and the Sorrow!

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Watch the mountains change colour!

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I added this photograph not because Coors Light "the Silver Bullet" is the drink of champions. As everybody knows, why drink just beer when you can drink beer and water from the same bottle? The mountains on the label change colour in the cold / heat, a fact that never ceases to amuse me.

Small things amuse small brains!

Can you spot which is which?

Name the writers!

Share He wrote about a Don, and I'm not talking about the University Novel!
Don't be fooled by the costume - some say he was a legend, others that he had a clubbed foot. Everyone seems to agree that he awoke one day and "found myself famous."
Looks a bit Russian? That's because he is.

And finally, a tricky one. The clue is in the picture!

Name the writers!

Share He wrote about a Don, and I'm not talking about the University Novel!
Don't be fooled by the costume - some say he was a legend, others that he had a clubbed foot. Everyone seems to agree that he awoke one day and "found myself famous."
Looks a bit Russian? That's because he is.

And finally, a tricky one. The clue is in the picture!