Author Archives: Matt Balleza

Sometime after I published my story, Brown River, I reconnected with an old friend online, who upon hearing about the book asked me why I wrote it. I was caught off guard by his question. It wasn’t a tricky question, but until then I had been so hung up on the how and the whatContinue reading “Get confident: Why you should take on a big, scary creative project”

Many months ago I wrapped up writing a debut novel called Brown River. It was a story I had been working on for two years, but by the end I was pooped. I felt like a junior swimmer breaststroking his way across the English Channel. I wondered if I would make it. Fortunately with theContinue reading “A Show and tell welcome”