Matthias Matting

Matthias Matting and Poppy J. Anderson in an interview at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2017

Matthias Matting (pseudonym Brandon Q. Morris , * 28. August 1966 in Luckenwalde , county Luckenwalde , Potsdam district ) is a German physicist , journalist and author .

Life

After completing his physics studies at the TU Dresden , Matting became an editor at a specialist publisher for computer magazines in Munich. In the following years he worked a. a. as editor for Computer Bild , Wirtschaftswoche , Focus and Heise-Verlag . In addition, he regularly published specialist books on various technical subjects and several fiction novels. Matting operates web portals for self-publishers and offers seminars for authors. From February 2015 to December 2017 he was chairman of the board of the German Self-Publishers Association , which he co-founded. He has also worked as a science fiction author under the pseudonym Brandon Q. Morris since 2017 .

Awards

• In 2011 Matthias Matting was one of the first winners of the derneuebuchpreis.de (dnbp), endowed with a total of 20,000 euros, in the non-fiction category for travel to Fukushima , which is supported by Tagesspiegel , epubli and Zeit online .
• Skoutz Award 2019 in the Science Fiction category together with Cliff Allister for the novel Helium-3 .
• Fantastic Literature Prize Seraph 2020 - nomination longlist "Best Independent Title" for the novel The Triton Disaster .

items

• Matthias Matting: New trend self-publishing - bestseller without a publisher , Focus, October 14, 2011
• Matthias Matting: Self Publishing: Publishing in the Parallel World , ZEIT Online, May 5, 2014
• The Sunday Talk: Matthias Matting: A healthy market without monopolies is just as important for self-publishers as it is for publishers , Interview by U. Faure with Matthias Matting, Book Market , January 24, 2016

Books (selection)

• Your own internet server. Franzis Verlag, Poing 2003, ISBN 978-3-7723-6084-8 .
• Trip to Fukushima. epubli , 2011, ISBN 978-3-8442-0688-3 .
• The Self-Publisher-Yearbook 2014. Monsenstein and Vannerdat , Edition Octopus, Münster 2014, ISBN 978-3-95645-476-9 .
• Apple watch book. riva , 2015, ISBN 978-3-86883-765-0 .
• Cosmos and universe - explained in 60 seconds. riva, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-86883-829-9 .

As Brandon Q Morris

• Ice moon series
  • Enceladus. Belle Epoque (Self-Publishing), Dettenhausen 2017, ISBN 978-3-945796-92-4 .
  • Titanium. Belle Epoque (Self-Publishing), Dettenhausen 2018, ISBN 978-3-945796-93-1 .
  • Io. Belle Epoque (Self-Publishing), Dettenhausen 2018, ISBN 978-3-945796-94-8 .
  • Enceladus - the return. Belle Epoque (Self-Publishing), Dettenhausen 2018, ISBN 978-3-945796-95-5 .
  • Jupiter. Belle Epoque (Self-Publishing), Dettenhausen 2018, ISBN 978-3-945796-99-3 .
• The Hole. , Belle Epoque (Self-Publishing), Dettenhausen 2018, ISBN 978-3-96357-000-1 .
• The crack. Belle Epoque (Self-Publishing), Dettenhausen 2018, ISBN 978-3-96357-001-8 .
• Silent Sun Belle Epoque (Self-Publishing), Dettenhausen 2019, ISBN 978-3-96357-002-5 .
• Proxima range :
  • Proxima Rising. Belle Epoque (Self-Publishing), Dettenhausen 2018, ISBN 978-3-96357-015-5 .
  • Proxima Dying. Belle Epoque (Self-Publishing), Dettenhausen 2019, ISBN 978-3-96357-016-2 .
  • Proxima Dreaming. Belle Epoque (Self-Publishing), Dettenhausen 2019, ISBN 978-3-96357-017-9 .
• Helium-3 (with Cliff Allister). Belle Epoque (Self-Publishing), Dettenhausen 2019, ISBN 978-3-96357-069-8 .
• Clouds of Venus (with Ashton McLee). Belle Epoque (Self-Publishing), Dettenhausen 2019, ISBN 978-3-96357-003-2 .
• The downfall of the universe. Belle Epoque (Self-Publishing), Dettenhausen 2019, ISBN 978-3-96357-120-6 .
• The Triton disaster. Belle Epoque (Self-Publishing), Dettenhausen 2019, ISBN 978-3-96357-004-9 .

Audio books

• Mars Nation 1 (as Brandon Q. Morris), Audible Studios, 2018.
• Mars Nation 2 (as Brandon Q. Morris), Audible Studios, 2019.
• Mars Nation 3 (as Brandon Q. Morris), Audible Studios, 2019.

Web links

• Literature by and about Matthias Matting in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Matthias Matting in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Literature by and about Matthias Matting in the catalog of the German National Library
• Employee portrait as editor at Focus
• Employee portrait at Heise / Telepolis

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Board election 2017. In: buchreport . December 4, 2017. Retrieved December 17, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Fritz Greiler: Passauer weekly: best-selling author of Passau on the Leipzig Book Fair. March 16, 2017. Retrieved October 29, 2017 . 
3. ^ The winners have been selected , Börsenblatt , October 6, 2011
4. ↑ Book award for FOCUS editor Matthias Matting: Excellent format experiment , Focus, October 6, 2011
5. ↑ https://skoutz.de/skoutz-award-2019-hier-sind-die-preistraeger/
6. ↑ https://www.boersenblatt.net/2020-01-08-artikel-literaturpreis_fuer_phantastik_in_drei_ Klassen-seraph-longlist_2020.1789534.html /