Areas of J.M. Matthew's Publishing Innovation

In my odyssey as an independent publisher and self-publisher who is very creative and innovative, I've created my share of innovations along the way, for instance, I'll mention two of them...

Manga-Anime-Comics-Animation Concept Art Ebook.

I created the first known instance of a Kindle republishing of a traditionl art book that existed in printed, but not kindle ebook form: Art: Manifested – The Art of J.M. Matthews. Now that's slowly becoming the norm, with Disney Feature Animation and various Video game concept art book publishers jumping on the bandwagon I apparently started in 2013 without knowing it at the time. You may be asking, WHERE is the proof of this accomplishment. Simple, check the copyright date: Art: Manifested – The Art of J.M. Matthews was published (Officially) in 2013, one year after the paperback was published officially in print form in 2012. No other artbooks were published in Kindle form that year, because it was the FIRST. The next closest publication date of ANY art book in Kindle form was 2015 or so, as far as I know. It was the only Concept Art Kindle Ebook available at the time, and it represented a big step forward for the media arts industry. Now instead of hulking around all these massive 30 lbs heavy hardcover books, we can have their PDF files on out computers and websites.

BUNDLE Books

I was one of the first author-publishers to republish my art and writing material together in collected form, Omnibus style. Or so I've been told.

Balancing The Workload

 As an unpaid Filmmaker, Blogger, Novelist, Poet, Essayist Cartoonist, and Screenwriter, I found the area that came easiest, filmmaking and blogging aside, was being a web cartoonist of a webcomic/manga. But all that focusing on one or two areas made me rusty in many of the areas I neglected in favor of developing my artistic abilities, which for anyone who draws online knows, is a real war and battle. So I'm switching things up. I said, why not neglect art in favor of writing for the next few years. Bottom line, when you do this many things full time, some of them are going to get neglected. And others will be more tended to.  

New Short Story / Novel is online

"The Downtown Star offices were quiet this time of night, in the middle of the night. Only a few people walked the halls of the office building. Sungur Redgrave peer out the window from his office desk. Then it hit him. The intuitive insight hit him.

“He survived?” Sungur asked the empty room. “Goddamn it!” Sungur shouted to the empty room. “Why can't he just die a simple death like all the others! Needless to say I think I'll be keeping a very close eye on this one. It's time I finished the job.” And with that, he began the work of plotting against Mike Stone. "

The Wish Granter, Chapter 1 by J.M. Matthews on Scribd

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I'm currently in the process of planning to Apply for Asylum in Europe....

I'd say I've taken enough abuse from yanks in this century, yeh?

I'm not a Marketer. I'm a Writer and Author First and a Marketer Fourth...

Lately, I've seen some people online accuse me of being a "beega marketer", even a scammer and con artist, some shady predatory salesman out to corrupt people with my Eeeeevile books.

Well some of you are free to think that, but its a WRONG assumption.

It's wrong as in I don't define my profession as an online marketer. It's just  something  I do on the side to sell more of my products. End of story. Making your presence known and selling books because of it isn't a scam. It's just how business works. You shouldn't take me so seriously as a marketer or salesman. I only advertise because these days, good content alone won't sell your book. You have to "push" it, or advertise and market your book if you want people to purchase copies of it, which they obviously did

Anyway, marketing isn't even that big of a priority for me. Writing and drawing are, and they have been since early childhood. Creativity comes before selling and Business PR. Bottom Line. NOT the other way around.

The only reason I value marketing so much is because I don't want to starve or go out of business and be on the street some day. Doctor Coin sees it as being a lot more nefarious than that, but the honest answer is, all I'm really attempting to do is earn a living from the things I work the hardest on. I think one thing he misinterprets is the nature of my success, just because I use advertising and make money at it doesn't mean that's at the top of the list of what I'm trying to be. I was also an internet engineer for a long time, but that never paid. It helped a lot of people, and was one of my most successful areas, just not financially in the way advertising was.

Doctor Coin did get one theory right about me. I am nowhere near as well off as most of my observers just seem to think I am. My theory is the average person wants to think most celebrities are loaded and own big houses. Dr. Coin is right, I've got nowhere near as much money as people just seem to think I do. Not all celebrities are rich. Well, I'm speaking for myself here. 

JM News: End Times is being renamed

After 10 years from publishing online, J.M. Matthews's long running online comic book and manga series, "End Times" is being renamed.

The new name according to Matthews will be "The End Times"