Matt currently serves as co-editor of hybrid print magazine Murky Depths. Owned
and operated by publishing editor Terry Martin and based in the UK, Murky Depths
features the best and broadest range of dark speculative fiction and comics from
established writers and artists as well as newcomers to both fields. In addition to his
duties as submissions editor, Matt also contributes non-fiction articles to the magazine.
A 16-page promotional issue, Murky Depths #0, was released early in 2007 and
features Matt's short story "The Dead Man and The Berserk" as well as the first of his
regular Depth Charge columns. It also includes fiction by Lavie Tidhar and panels by
Greek writer/illustrator Spyros Verykios. The first full issue is slated to be released later
in the year, and will showcase elite authors and illustrators from all over the world, including BSFW award
winner Jon Courtenay Grimwood and rising British comic scribe and artist Luke Cooper.
In December of 2006, one of Matt's short stories featured on the Variant Frequencies podcast was optioned by Precision Pictures, an independent production company based in Sydney, Australia. Matt was commissioned to adapt "Children of the Androphagi" into a feature-length screenplay. Combining that source material with a follow-up novella originally published by Cutting Block Press, Matt recently completed a 100-page script for Precision Pictures entitled The End of Flesh.
The End of Flesh tells the story of Jon "Busboy" Pacson, a detective in a future version of New York City where famine and over-population are driving the citizenry to commit increasingly widespread acts of cannibalism. Pacs is the one-man covert unit assigned to solve related crimes on the QT, keeping this alarming trend out of the public eye. Pacs navigates an underground where carrion feeding has become a new and frightening subculture. But when the son of a prominent political figure winds up on the menu, it leads Pacs to discover an even darker and more terrifying reality slowly evolving beneath the city streets . . . The project is moving along steadily, and in the meantime Matt is discussing others with Precision Pictures.