M. S. Butler started writing poems at a very young age, being inspired by his mother's love of literature. His mother read to him every night from the classics of western mythology. He fell in love with fairy tales immediately and they have been a lasting influence on his work ever since.
He grew up in West Chester, Ohio and filled his days looking for the Loveland Frogman, fairies, and ghosts. He continued to love the supernatural well into his teens and voraciously absorbed anything remotely relating to it from novels, to movies, to nonfiction books, etc.
Once in college his interests turned more toward the scientific. He majored in Environmental Science at Ohio University, Computer Science at Cincinnati State, and Political Science at the University of Cincinnati. After struggling to find a job that felt fulfilling he had an epiphany while reading an old journal. He remembered how much he loved creating stories and decided to focus all his efforts on becoming an author.
Since then he has written several short stories, one of which,
Footsteps in the Darkness, is currently being considered for the Fish Publishing Flash Fiction Prize. He is currently hard at work on Abyssal Tides, his debut novel.
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Hello, Fantasy Fans!
I’d like to apologize for the late post. There’s really no excuse. I said I would have the next post out within two weeks at the most and I failed to deliver. There’s nothing I can do except promise to post more often, stick to it, and tell you about all the awesome things that have kept me occupied for the last month.
Abyssal Tides Update
Word Count: 44,067
Page Count: 234
39% Done!
Things have been hectic this month and I haven’t made near as much progress as I would like, but I have made some. I’ve really dug into the characters and what makes them tic, resulting in more evocative prose, at least to my eyes.
Cin City D&D
Cin City D&D has continued to be a joy to work on episode after episode. Each session brings new challenges and new opportunities to be creative. The players have been incredibly fun to work with and have really pushed me to be more of a role-player and to develop some terrible accents. So far we have gotten through almost half of the Lost Mine of Phandelver and continue to shoot longer and longer sessions.
Last Monday, we missed our scheduled play session, but we managed to shoot the character intro videos and a few short skits that we hope to bring to you soon. Hopefully you’ll forgive us when you see the blooper reel.
This Thursday starting at 10:30pm ET we will start the make up sessions for Monday. We’d love it if you could join us, but we understand that we play fairly late for some. That’s why every live session is recorded and available on our YouTube channel, all you have to do is subscribe and you’ll never miss a moment of the epicness!
Upcoming Projects
We have quite a few things on the horizon as well, one of which may or may not be an epic theme song.
- I said before that we’re almost half way through with the Lost Mine of Phandelver, so we’re in need of a new campaign. Luckily, I know of a certain Humble DM who has been working diligently on just such a campaign entitled Forsaken Library of the Moonblade. Look for an upcoming post on that in the near future.
- We’re also in the process of compiling info for the website. Soon we’ll have character profiles, photos, and several other goodies for you to enjoy.
- Yes we’re working on a theme song. Rob aka Varus can shred on the guitar and Madison aka Hisxori is a singer who should be on Broadway, so soon we’ll have a theme song and intro video so epic it will make your head explode into rainbows of ecstasy.
Finally I’d like to apologize again about the late post. In the future I’ll be much more attentive to the blog, but I can’t make any promises about when the next post will be. Hopefully, it’ll be in a few days to a week, but with my crazy schedule I honestly don’t know anymore. I do promise to provide a monthly update on Abyssal Tides, Cin City D&D, and any other projects I’m working on. Thanks for being so understanding and awesome.
Please follow me on Twitter (@mattsconfused), Facebook (Cin City D&D and Abyssal Tides), and Snapchat (mattsbutler). Check out my new and improved website mattsbutler.com and subscribe to our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQhYwZnQTEYmOvdMLEaIN5Q
Thanks again for all your support!
- M. S. Butler