To Slow Down The Time: Stories (2010)

Lifelong friends battle an illness threatening to disconnect their relationship. A boy scandalously attracted to books comes to terms with his unconventional sexuality. Twin girls, longing to be different, encounter a great white shark. A sheltered country boy runs off to the city and discovers friendship without ever leaving his apartment.

Matthew Allard’s fiction debut is filled with obsessive teenagers, scorned women, and unreliable men; but throughout, it brims with characters simply trying to lasso a moment of happiness, sometimes under rather curious conditions.

Printed alongside the 19 Ian Dingman illustrations which inspired them, the stories in To Slow Down The Time come together to provide a charming snapshot of modern storytelling.

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Now available in stores and online. To learn more visit ToSlowDownTheTime.com

The Awl (10/10)
Case Studies in Successful Self Publishing: “To Slow Down The Time”

The Millions (11/11)
Do it Yourself: Self-Published Authors Take Matters Into Their Own Hands

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Reverence Library: Volume One (2011)

The first in a new series of abridged pocket encyclopaedias ‘inspired by fact and reworked by fiction’. Essentially, reference books with lies in. Each volume sees a handful of writers and illustrators interpreting three fascinating subjects through art and short fiction. Volume One concerns Galleons, Nikola Tesla, and The Trans-Siberian Railway.

Matthew Allard’s “Birds,” a dark spin on the last day in the life of enigmatic inventor Nikola Tesla, is published here for the first time.

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1000 first edition copies now available. To learn more visit SingStatisitics.co.uk