Author Talk with Matt Cost

Local author Matt Cost will be discussing the art of writing a book using his latest mystery novel, Mainely Wicked, as an example from idea to marketing and everything in between.  

Mainely Wicked is the fifth book in the Brunswick, Maine, based mystery series with PI and mystery bookstore owner Goff Langdon.  Langdon is hired to find a man who answered a classified ad and then disappeared into thin air. And then a second person vanishes. What starts as a couple of simple missing-person cases quickly spirals into a diabolical world of witches, wiccans, and wendigos.

“You ever hear of the Church of Satan?” Jewell asked. There was silence around the fire. The flames danced and flickered, casting shadows in the dark May night. Langdon took the bottle from Richam and poured himself another…

Bart, the dour but poetic cop, is back, even if demoted to a blue uniform. The dapper lawyer, Jimmy 4 by Four, is up to his regular philandering ways. Richam is hiding a secret from Jewell, and Chabal makes a new friend… And then goes missing.

What is going to happen during the Super Flower Blood Moon and who is the Wendigo? This time, Langdon might be too late to solve these mysteries before the blood flows…

Author Bio:  Matt Cost was a history major at Trinity College. He owned a mystery bookstore, a video store, and a gym, before serving a ten-year sentence as a junior high school teacher. In 2014 he was released and began writing. And that’s what he does. He writes histories and mysteries.

"Mainely Wicked" is the fifth book in the Mainely Mystery series. He has also published four books in the Clay Wolfe Trap series, with the fifth, "Pirate Trap", due out in December of 2023.

For historical novels, Cost has published "At Every Hazard" and its sequel, "Love in a Time of Hate", as well as "I am Cuba". In April of 2023, Cost combined his love of histories and mysteries into a historical PI mystery set in 1923 Brooklyn, "Velma Gone Awry".

Cost now lives in Brunswick, Maine, with his wife, Harper. There are four grown children: Brittany, Pearson, Miranda, and Ryan. A chocolate Lab and a basset hound round out the mix. He now spends his days at the computer, writing.

This program will take place in the Androscoggin Community Room; no registration is required.