ANNOUNCEMENTS

December 20, 2008

Paraworld Zero Audiobook and E-Book

- Paraworld Zero hit the top-50 BarnesAndNoble.com bestseller list!
- Hit the Amazon.com bestseller list in the "Magic and Wizards" category
- Got 1st Place at the London Book Festival
- Got 2nd Place in the Moonbeam Children's Book Awards
- Received an honorable mention at the New England Book Festival
- Received an honorable mention at the Hollywood Book Festival
- Received an honorable mention at the New York Book Festival
- Received an honorable mention at the Beach Book Festival
- Became a Next Generation Indie Book Awards Finalist
- Received the Flamingnet TOP CHOICE Award

Update: dispite speaking to over 5 million people on the radio, doing TV, newspaper and online interviews,
touring in 7 states, giving away 30,000 full-color flyers, 40,000 bookmarks, and 6,000 books / audiobooks,
and placing ads in places like The New York Times, The Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, and
Bloomsbury Review, Matthew dropped his publisher in June 2008 because of various distribution and
accounting issues they were having (i.e. they didn't pay him and they weren't fulfilling orders). His
ex-publisher (Windstorm Creative) say they'll pay him this month, over a year after many of the
pre-orders (over 300 of them) were already paid for.

After he's finished with Book 2, Matthew will start looking for a new publisher.

The Audiobook and E-Book of Paraworld Zero just came out!
The audiobook is 12.5 hours long and has 2 narrators
(Matt and Alicia) who did over 100 unique character
voices. The DVD version includes almost 4 hours of
video/audio extras. Listen to a sample HERE.

The E-Book has 30 illustrations like the physical book.
View a sample HERE.

Get the Audio CD (10-disc), MP3-CD, MP3-DVD from http://paraworlds.com/shop
Downloadable audiobook from Audible.com, iTunes.com, Kitabe.com, SpokenNetwork.com, etc.

Check out the Paraworld Zero E-Book on the Sony Reader and Amazon Kindle
http://ebookstore.sony.com

Amazon Kindle

September 9, 2007

Matthew is a 90% full-time author!

Matthew's online business has been so successful, he is now devoting most of his time promoting
his upcoming book, Paraworld Zero, which will come out January 2008 in 6x9 trade paperback.
Matt and Alicia are producing the audiobook as well. Matthew is already participating in fantasy/scifi
conventions, including CopperCon and TusCon. His big tour will begin January 13th, so buy your book
that week from the major bookstores. His book's site, www.paraworlds.com, is getting a big update.
His message board is now ready for fantasy and science fiction fans to use: www.paraworlds.net
And he is now taking pre-orders! Pre-order Paraworld Zero now at www.paraworlds.com/shop/

November 15, 2006

Jared is born!

Jared was born 8 lbs 2 ounces and 19 and 1/2 inches long on
11/15/06 (6 weeks early). He was quickly flown to St Joe's
hospital, where he stayed for a month and had open heart surgery.
Alicia split her pelvis and was crippled for another month.
Jared has Noonan's Syndrome.

September-November 2006

Matt got laid off work and Alicia is in the hospital

-- Matt got laid off of work on Aug 30th after working at Barrett-Eastman/ServiceOne for 6 years.
-- Alicia went into the hospital on bedrest on Oct 18th and has been there for a month.
-- Matt started his own online business and is helping to manage several other online businesses.

June 2006

I got a publisher for my book, Paraworld Zero!!!

Scheduled Publication Date: Fall 2007 by Windstorm Creative
Windstorm is a large Independent Publisher (they do about 80 books a year). The first print run will be about
10,000 copies. They may even let me do my own book cover . . . which will bump up my royalty checks in
the process. I used pencil and paper, a digital camera, a Wacom tablet (pressure sensitive device for the
computer) and Corel Painter to create this cover. It took me close to 100 hours to do this. Whew!

April 2005

A new addition to the family...
Samson (the African Tortoise)

Science Fiction Writers of Earth
"Snacking Between Meals" placed in the Top Ten 2004
CLICK HERE for more info

September 2004

Matt Won 1st place in the Writersweekly.com 24-hour Short Story Contest!
There were 500 applicants and a $300 prize.
Matt was surprised because this was his first non-high school contest he's entered.
http://writersweekly.com/contest/1stsummer04.html

May 9, 2004

Alicia had her baby...For real this time!!!

Jacob Thomas Peterson. 7 pounds 8 ounces. 20 inches. Born on Mother's Day at 9:17 PM (1 month and 1 day early). I spoke in church today and Alicia decided to come. I told her she couldn't have the baby until after I was finished with my talk and so she obliged. When we got to the hospital, the doctor wanted to stop the contractions but Alicia said "NO!" Three hours later she had the baby. He's in good health. He sucks his thumb and is very cute. The weirdest thing of all was that the doctor pulled Jacob out half way, turned him around, and then had Alicia pull him out the rest of the way. She delivered her own baby! What a woman! The only bad thing that happened was that she broke her tailbone. Fortunately, she had an epidural, but it still hurt. The nurse checked her right after the epidural and discovered that she was already dilated to a 10. If the nurse would have checked her before the epidural, Alicia probably wouldn't have gotten one. Lucky for her.

April 1, 2004

Alicia had her baby!!! He was really early and we're a little troubled about his color but we love him just the same.

Click Here to see pictures

Jan 1, 2004

Alicia is pregnant again with another boy! The due date is in the first part of May.

May 8, 2002

Alicia gave birth to a 7 lb, 6 ounce 19 & 3/4 inch healthy boy at 9:12 PM, 5/8/2002.
His due date was June 3rd. If Alicia wouldn't have had him early he would have been a
BIG One! His name is Trent Jay Peterson.