An author of science fiction, fantasy, and horror based in Atlanta, GA. His first published book was the short story collection Flashing Steel, Flashing Fire in 2014, while his first novel, The Thing In The Woods came out in 2017. 2019 saw his Bizarro Fiction novella "Little People Big Guns" and Battle For The Wastelands, the first novel in his "Battle for the Wastelands" series. The Atlanta Incursion, the sequel to The Thing In The Woods came out in 2020, as did the Battle prequel novella "Son of Grendel." The second Wastelands novel Serpent Sword came out in 2023.
Former member of AlternateHistory.com (2001-2015, give or take), but left to reduce distractions from his writing.
Works by Matthew W. Quinn include:
- Battle for the Wastelands: Described as "The Dark Tower meets Game Of Thrones
- Little People, Big Guns: A Bizarro Fiction novella featuring little people, killer animals, and much worse.
- Matthew W Quinns The Long War: A Lovecraft Lite saga beginning with an Atlanta teen encountering something he shouldn't in a small town. Begins with The Thing In The Woods and continues with The Atlanta Incursion.
This author's works (that don't have their own pages) include examples of:
- It Began with a Twist of Fate: One small change having very big consequences happens a lot in his works pertaining to Alternate History
- In the Harry Potter fanfic The Wrath of the Half-Blood Prince, Death Eater wannabe Mulciber decides to attack Lily Evans instead of Mary Macdonald. This earns him a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown from the teen Severus Snape, permanently alienating the latter from the Death Eaters while he's still a student at Hogwarts. This leads to a truly massive Alternate Universe Fic in which at least one major canon character dies who would have lived and others live who would have died.
- In the Harry Potter fanfic Lord of the Werewolves, Remus Lupin and Nymphadora Tonks escape Bill and Fleur's wedding rather than being detained like everybody else — only to run into Bellatrix Lestrange lurking at their home. Tonks miscarries Teddy Lupin after doctors refuse to treat her for the resulting injuries. Lupin finally snaps, kills them and, lacking anywhere else to go, swears allegiance to Fenrir Greyback. Another Alternate Universe Fic, albeit much less drastic than "Wrath."
- In his Afrikaner Alternate History that serves as a Deconstruction of The Draka, the Spanish winning a battle they lost during the Dutch War of Independence prompts a much earlier and more expansionist Dutch settlement of the Cape of Good Hope.
