All Blog Posts Tagged 'biography' (9)

In your face Tom Jones: I'm a Welsh icon

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Added by Matt Rees on December 28, 2009 at 12:00am — 1 Comment

That's my boy

I started to feel recently that my bio on www.mattbeynonrees.com was a bit over-serious. First of all, it was in the third person. I honestly never refer to myself in the third person (except when I'm shopping and I ask my wife "Would Matt Beynon Rees wear a shirt in this shade of pink?") Then I saw that the bio took my writing and -- worse still -- me, rather seriously. I prefer to make it clear that I can laugh at myself. So I changed the whole bio,… Continue

Added by Matt Rees on October 27, 2009 at 9:42pm — 1 Comment

Affable and trim

The last couple of articles about me and my books focus on the fact that I'm rather happy. In this month's Hadassah Magazine, I'm "affable and trim." High school friends reading this on Facebook may wonder where the affability was back then... Profile: Hadassah Magazine October 2009 Matt Beynon Rees By Leora Eren Frucht Only gritty,… Continue

Added by Matt Rees on October 16, 2009 at 6:18pm — 1 Comment

I Have Publishing Surrounded: John Higgs's Writing Life

Thomas Carlyle wrote that “A well-written life is almost as ra… Continue

Added by Matt Rees on September 30, 2009 at 12:48am — No Comments

Scared away

Here's my latest post on the International Crime Authors Reality Check blog: I keep finding new reasons why I write my novels about the Palestinians. Usually these reasons have nothing to do with the Palestinians. Here’s the one that may be the deepest, the one I’ve known about for a while, but have only recently been able to face up to: it’s because I’m scared of home. Not so long ago, I read the 1992 novel “Fat Lad” by Northern Irish n… Continue

Added by Matt Rees on September 10, 2009 at 7:02pm — No Comments

My bogus bio

Here's my latest post on the International Crime Authors Reality Check blog: Since you’re reading this, you don’t care who I am. So I can be anyone I like. At least, that’s what somebody wrote here recently. I posted on this blog a couple of weeks ago about Dashiell Hammett. I noted that, while a university literature student, I grew tired of all the post- structuralist and deconstructionist and Marxist esoterica I was studying. I picked… Continue

Added by Matt Rees on August 27, 2009 at 4:13pm — 4 Comments

The Last Man in London

Here's my latest post on the International Crime Authors Reality Check blog: During my teens, my family lived in a house in Addington, at the very farthest reach of South London. At the bottom of the hill, the road made its final exit from London. Not quite wide enough for two cars, it traveled onto the North Downs of Kent. Sometimes I would ride my bike along the lane and up a hill overlooking the Downs and lie on the grass. I was the bor… Continue

Added by Matt Rees on August 6, 2009 at 4:44pm — 2 Comments

Investigation Discovery Channel TV Interview Tonight

Good day, friends: I wanted to let you know I will be interviewed on the Investigation Discovery channel's new series, Wicked Attraction, tonight, Thursday, September 11th at 9 p.m., EST. The episode, "Twisted Twosome," is about husband and wife serial killers, Gerald and Charlene Gallego, who took the lives of ten people before being apprehended. For those of you who are interested in true crime and serial murder, especially mystery, thriller, and romantic suspens… Continue

Added by R. Barri Flowers on September 12, 2008 at 7:30am — No Comments

Rebroadcast of Biography Channel Interview This Week

Hello, friends: Hope all is well for you and yours. For those of you who missed my TV interview on the Biography Channel's Crime Stories, here's a chance to catch the rebroadcast at the end of this week as follows: Crime Stories:… Continue

Added by R. Barri Flowers on May 28, 2008 at 1:25am — No Comments