About Noah
Hi! I’m Noah J. Matthews—published author, editor, and film enthusiast.
I cut my teeth on Narnia and grew my chest hair with The Taking and Sixth Sense.
The experience of those stories is something I want everyone to experience—teens swamped with school, dudes working fast food and just trying to get through the day, overworked parents just looking for some rest.
But we don’t just want cheap entertainment—that’s what Disney remakes are for.
We need to bring literary pulp fiction to the forefront. You want it. I want it. Who cares what the big wigs say? Let’s give the people the spec-fic that’s not only awesome, but actually means something.
My genre is genre-mashing. My style is prosy, gritty, and packed with equal parts fast-paced action and heartful musing.
And I refuse to tell a story that doesn’t mean something. I just can’t stomach it.
A bit of myself works itself into every story, every book: my own sins, my own God and gods, and my own experience with this wonderful, awful thing called Life.
Bio
In the late winter of 2005, I emerged into this world. Like most, I was covered in blood and crying my head off. Thankfully that phase didn’t last long.
I grew up most of my life in the state of Michigan, and currently I’m residing in the lower in latitude but higher in altitude state of Ohio. (Lucky for me I don’t follow football. If I did you might see my head on a pike at the side of an Appalachian highway.)
Since I was eight years old or so I’ve wanted to tell stories. First for the money, but now to bring real value into people’s lives.
I recently graduated from a writing apprenticeship program called The Company, where I was trained how to write well and make money doing it. I have a provisional certification from them in Developmental Editing and Interior Design of Books.
In all of this, my desire is to reach your heart with fiction that means something—that you can pick up one of my books and enter into another world brimming with adventure.
I want to illuminate the darkness and the violence in the world, while bringing in a sense of hope. That no matter how hard it gets, there’s always a hand out there to hold onto.
The world is dark. Let’s turn the lights on.
