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Matt Weber
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Author: BRIMSTONE SLIPSTREAM, THE DANDELION KNIGHT, &c. He/him. Opinions are mine only. #BlackLivesMatter, #TransRightsAreHumanRights, nobody’s free until everybody’s free.

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Some spring for the skyline.
A pink flower, maybe a hyacinth? Purple trumpet-shaped flowers. Closeup of a blooming forsythia. Closeup of red leaves.
March 28, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Canceled TV show you’ll never stop thinking about
Brit Marling in THE OA, dressed in a jacket and hat, holding gloved hands up against a clear plastic wall.
March 27, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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“We are currently clean on op sec.”
Zac Oyama as musclebound philanthropist and jovial mass murderer Tommy Shriggly.
March 26, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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If you see this, post a #dragon!

BRIMSTONE SLIPSTREAM free on all platforms, get it in your eyeballs: books2read.com/brimstone-sl...
The cover of BRIMSTONE SLIPSTREAM, by Matt Weber: A young woman with bright red hair and goggles riding a dragon with orange, blue, and magenta feathers. The background is cliffs over a bay. Butterflies and seagulls dot the scene.
March 21, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Captions from Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons’ WATCHMEN. “As they dragged him away, Rorschach spoke to the other inmates. He said ‘None of you understand. I’m not locked up in here with you. You’re locked up in here with me.”
March 20, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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AI is going great, exhibit N:
A Google search result. Question is “What famous athletes have Marfans?” Answer is “In more recent times, Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps, basketball prospect Isaiah Austin and, perhaps, al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden had Marfan syndrome.” Text from hartfordhealthcare.org. “Abraham Lincoln is the most famous American who had Marfan syndrome. So did Julius Caesar and Tutankhamen. In more recent times, Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps, basketball prospect Isaiah Austin and, perhaps, al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden had Marfan syndrome.”
January 8, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Yes
YES
The word “rampage.”
January 6, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Roses are red,
Violets are unique,
A sign from a building in Banqiao stating, in English and Mandarin, “entrails-like passages for endless hide-and-seek.”
January 3, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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Some bakeries serve bread, and some serve 🍑
A neon sign by a bakery in Taipei, with Mandarin text that may say “Puji steamed buns” and English text admonishing the reader to Keep Calm and Eat Buns.
January 2, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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This was a nice milestone to hit right before the new year.
I am too terrible at social media to get all that far up my ass about metrics, but I do genuinely appreciate all of you out there listening.
A screenshot of Matt Weber’s Bluesky profile page, with “1K followers” highlighted in yellow.
December 30, 2024 at 2:27 PM
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Christians in Taiwan go hard as fuck apparently?
A large church in Kaohsiung lit up with white lights on every edge so it looks like a gingerbread house, with a neon red crucifix on top. To the side are a huge flowing garland of Christmas lights and a four-story mural of Jesus. A five-story church in Taipei, like the size of an apartment building, white with red trim, with massive red crucifixes painted on all sides. The lower stories are festooned with Christmas lights.
December 26, 2024 at 3:00 PM
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Trying to keep the posting to a minimum on vacation, but I just finished Saeed Teebi’s collection HER FIRST PALESTINIAN and needed to come here to recommend it without reservation.
The cover of Saeed Teebi’s short story collection, HER FIRST PALESTINIAN, this latter word one my autocorrect refuses to recognize. An orange with an unbroken strip of peel spiraling away from it.
December 26, 2024 at 7:00 AM
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Deleting my dating apps because I want to meet someone the old-fashioned way (screaming through the streets at top speed on a feathered killer lizard)
The cover of BRIMSTONE SLIPSTREAM, by Matt Weber: A young woman with bright red hair and goggles riding a dragon with orange, blue, and magenta feathers. The background is cliffs over a bay. Butterflies and seagulls dot the scene.
December 17, 2024 at 1:53 PM
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Dig through the ditches and
Burn through the witches I
Slam in the back of my
A “Gracula” garlic crusher, a cute gadget shaped sort of like a pepper grinder if a pepper grinder were also a li’l vampire.
December 15, 2024 at 9:10 PM
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Yes, I’m religious. I believe in the holy trinity
Swift Wind (a rainbow-winged unicorn), Seahawks (a mustachioed pirate), and Bow (an archer), characters from the Netflix show SHE-RA AND THE PRINCESSES OF POWER, in a theatrical pose.
November 30, 2024 at 2:21 PM
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SO IF YOU CARE TO FIND ME LOOK TO THE WESTERN SKY
Former Representative George Santos, R-NY, if that’s his real name, opening his mouth wide to declaim as reporters press in for the scoop.
November 29, 2024 at 4:06 AM
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There’s not quite an x-meets-y for Streets of Flame, but the energy is Vlad Taltos & Locked Tomb: Fast-moving, funny, and snarky, with flashes of grimness & sorrow and worldbuilding that’s weirder than it might look. books2read.com/brimstone-sl...
The cover of BRIMSTONE SLIPSTREAM, by Matt Weber: A young woman with bright red hair and goggles riding a dragon with orange, blue, and magenta feathers. The background is cliffs over a bay. Butterflies and seagulls dot the scene.
November 25, 2024 at 12:26 PM
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All fucking day I have been looking for the time to write:

HEATSTROKE HEARTBEAT IS OUT!

Say what? It’s book 3 in a series? NO WORRIES FRIEND, book 1 (BRIMSTONE SLIPSTREAM) is free forever and book 2 (WINDBURN WHIPLASH) is $0.99 all month!

#BookSky

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The cover of HEATSTROKE HEARTBEAT, by Matt Weber. A young woman on a bright-feathered dragon flies with five chrome dragons in hot pursuit!
November 14, 2024 at 9:52 PM
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And the new book, HEATSTROKE HEARTBEAT. Let’s just say the victory at the end of the last book didn’t solve nearly all of Zaya’s problems. Available for preorder now, in your e-reader on November 14! books2read.com/heatstroke-h...
The cover of HEATSTROKE HEARTBEAT, by Matt Weber. A young woman riding a brightly feathered dragon, chased by five silver-feathered dragons.
November 11, 2024 at 12:54 AM
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WINDBURN WHIPLASH: The first full-length novel in the Streets of Flame series. Zaya’s been out of the scene for years… but when her daughter’s threatened, she gets back in the saddle. Down to $0.99 this November! 🤑 books2read.com/windburn-whi...
The cover of WINDBURN WHIPLASH, by Matt Weber: A bright pink dragon streaking across a lush green landscape.
November 11, 2024 at 12:47 AM
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BRIMSTONE SLIPSTREAM: A story of family, magic, loss, history, and illegal underground dragon racing, in the form of *cough* long-form magazine journalism. Free to read digitally on all platforms, now and always! books2read.com/brimstone-sl...
The cover of BRIMSTONE SLIPSTREAM, by Matt Weber: A young woman with bright red hair, mounted on a dragon with orange, blue, and magenta feathers.
November 11, 2024 at 12:40 AM
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For sale:
Baby choux, never eaten. Real description: A shelf at Tous Les Jours with several clear plastic cups full of tiny cream puffs. A small sign in front of them says “Baby Choux.”
November 8, 2024 at 1:58 PM
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Tapping the sign #NonaTheNinth
Three buttons with cow facts from NONA THE NINTH: “Cows exhibit morning behavior,” “Cows watch sunset, man,” and “Cows have best friends and complex social relationships.” One flesh, one end, baby.
November 3, 2024 at 10:15 PM
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For contrast, numbers in the thick of today’s Freebooksy promo:

(Again, pure vanity metrics, this brings me no direct revenue and I think fairly little visibility. It may not even reflect all that many downloads. But readers reading is a good thing.)
A screenshot from the Amazon sales page for BRIMSTONE SLIPSTREAM, by Matt Weber. It reads: Amazon.com Sales Rank #300 Free in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store) #3 in Two-Hour Science Fiction & Fantasy Short Reads #3 in Dragons & Mythical Creatures Fantasy (Kindle Store) #4 in LGBTQ+ Fantasy (Kindle Store)
November 2, 2024 at 5:35 PM
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I mean make no mistake, I’m not buying orca-bait boats with my takings from a free novella doing high double digits on a couple sublists, but you’re readers! You’re reading! I hope you like it!

books2read.com/brimstone-sl... 😬
The cover of BRIMSTONE SLIPSTREAM, by Matt Weber: a brightly colored, feathered dragon ridden by a young woman with goggles and brightly colored hair, over a bay.
November 2, 2024 at 12:31 AM