Matthew Roy

@mattroywriter.bsky.social

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Writer and poet. Mainly speculative/genre stuff. Querying MOTHER OF MONSTERS, my first novel. Banging away at the second. he/him https://matthewstevenroy.wixsite.com/matthewroywriter

Black border collie with a blue bandana. My dog Brody.
Weather radar image of a hurricane over New Orleans.
Vase painted with an image of Hercules battling Cerberus the three-headed dog.
Cork pegboard with a variety of post it notes laying out my May goals
Sidewalk chalk that reads “Power to the Peaceful! No kings!”
A picture of a black and white dog looking up at me.
Picture of my dog, a black and white border collie/terrier mix.
Screenshot of a Microsoft Word doc showing 43,048 words.
Stack of four books: Night Shift by Stephen King Strongmen by Ruth Ben-Ghiat Bluff by Danez Smith Always Remember by Charlie Mackesy
Weather radar of New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina
Vase featuring an image of Hercules fighting Cerberus the three headed dog.
Picture of a Word doc on a computer screen, showing 42,009 words
Painting of the Death of Julius Caesar.
Image from an ancient vase. Hercules fighting Cerberus the hound of Hades.
Painting of the Death of Julius Caesar
Ancient painted with Hercules battling the monster Cerberus
Picture of a Bloody Mary and a Christmas-themed oven mitt
Screenshot of my computer, a Word doc open, showing 195 pages and 40,000 words on a document. Also a weather report predicting six inches of snow today.
A pic of my dog Brody (black and white border collie mix) and me.
Painting of the killing of Julius Caesar.
Thank you note for a poem, from Mike and Jen at Vast Chasm Magazine.
Purple folder, journal, and a glass of wine on a bar top.
Screenshot of a Word document, showing 190 pages and 38,174 words. As well as weather report of 75 degrees Fahrenheit.
Post it note with the words “When he woke up, the dinosaur was still there, by August Monterroso”
Picture of a Bloody Mary drink
Picture of a Dunkin iced coffee in front of my writing goals pegboard.
Me with my nephew on my shoulders.
Image of the painting “The Death of Julius Caesar” by Vincenzo Camuccini.
Image from an Ancient Greek vase of Heracles fighting Cerberus, the three-headed dog.
Two copies of “So It Goes: The Literary Journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library”
Glass of Bloody Mary in front of The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
Me with a statue of philanthropist Henry Shaw
My dog, a border collie mix, wearing a rainbow bandanna.
Word doc titled “Nursing Home Vampire Story”
Me with my “So It Goes” tattoo on my arm visible.
Stack of journals and notebooks.
A Bloody Mary drink and a book titled “The Death of Caesar” among other books and notebooks on a desk.
My dog Brody. A black border collie and terrier mix.
Bicep tattoo that says So It Goes
Package and journal called So It Goes
Scribbled Sheroes key word list. March 9’s word is Strength
Title page of my novel, Mother of Monsters
Heart pain image
Computer display of 31,022 words on a Word document.
Iced coffee cup in front of a stack of books and pens.
Hercules fighting Cerberus on a vase