Matt Wallace
Matt Wallace is the Hugo nominated author of Rencor: Life in Grudge City and the Sin du Jour series, and he won a Hugo Award alongside Mur Lafferty for the fancast Ditch Diggers. He’s also penned more than a hundred short stories in addition to writing for film and television. In his youth, he traveled the world as a professional wrestler and unarmed combat and self-defense instructor before retiring to write full time. He currently resides in Los Angeles with his wife, Nikki.
All Books By Matt Wallace
Bump
- By: Matt Wallace
- Narrator: Almarie Guerra
- Length: 5 hours 51 minutes
- Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books
- Publish date: January 26, 2021
- Language: English
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3.97(216 ratings)
A moving and triumphant middle grade contemporary debut from award-winning author Matt Wallace about a heroic young girl–who dreams of becoming a pro wrestler–learning to find courage and fight for what she loves. Perfect for fans of Kelly Yang, Meg Medina, and Jason Reynolds’ Track series!
MJ knows what it means to hurt. Bruises from gymnastics heal, but big hurts–like her dad not being around anymore–don’t go away. Now her mom needs to work two jobs, and MJ doesn’t have friends at school to lean on.
There is only one thing MJ loves: the world of professional wrestling. She especially idolizes the luchadores and the stories they tell in the ring. When MJ learns that her neighbor, Mr. Arellano, runs a wrestling school, she has a new mission in life: join the school, train hard, and become a wrestler.
But trouble lies ahead. After wrestling in a showcase event, MJ attracts the attention of Mr. Arellano’s enemy at the State Athletic Commission. There are threats to shut the school down, putting MJ’s new home–and the community that welcomed her–at risk. What can MJ do to save her new family?
* A Junior Library Guild Selection * Banks Street Best Children’s Books of the Year *
... Read moreEnvy of Angels
- By: Matt Wallace
- Narrator: Corey Gagne
- Length: 4 hours 11 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: October 20, 2015
- Language: English
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3.71(1722 ratings)
In New York, eating out can be hell.
Everyone loves a well-catered event, and the supernatural community is no different, but where do demons go to satisfy their culinary cravings?
Welcome to Sin du Jour – where devils on horseback are the clients, not the dish.
PRAISE FOR ENVY OF ANGELS:
“Matt Wallace tells a raucous, riotous tale of culinary madness – a jaw-dropping horror-fantasy restaurateur Thunderdome that makes the ‘monkey brain’ scene in Temple of Doom look like something you’d see on Nickelodeon. It’s like I dropped a heroic dose of acid and turned on the Food Network for eight hours. It’s funny and demented and sticks in you like a pinbone. Matt Wallace writes like someone just jammed a needle full of adrenaline in his heart – and then, in yours. From this point forward, I’ll read anything this guy writes.”
-Chuck Wendig, author of BLACKBIRDS and ZER0ES
“No one makes me think, ‘Dammit, I should have thought of that!’ like Matt Wallace. The Sin du Jour series is something I read with equal amounts of envy and delight.”
– Mur Lafferty, Campbell Award winning author of THE SHAMBLING GUIDE TO NEW YORK CITY
Lustlocked
- By: Matt Wallace
- Narrator: Corey Gagne
- Length: 3 hours 54 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: January 26, 2016
- Language: English
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3.73(876 ratings)
The staff of New York’s premier supernatural catering company, has their work cut out for them in this outrageous follow-up to Envy of Angels.
Love is in the air at Sin du Jour.
The Goblin King (yes, that one) and his Queen are celebrating the marriage of their son to his human bride. Naturally the celebrations will be legendary.
But when desire and magic mix, the results can be unpredictable.
Our heroes are going to need more than passion for the job to survive the catering event of the decade!
... Read morePride’s Spell
- By: Matt Wallace
- Narrator: Corey Gagne
- Length: 4 hours 14 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: June 21, 2016
- Language: English
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3.89(581 ratings)
The team at Sin du Jour–New York’s exclusive caterers-to-the-damned–find themselves up against their toughest challenge, yet when they’re lured out west to prepare a feast in the most forbidding place in America: Hollywood, where false gods rule supreme.
Meanwhile, back at home, Ritter is attacked at home by the strangest hit-squad the world has ever seen, and the team must pull out all the stops if they’re to prevent themselves from being offered up as the main course in a feast they normally provide
Starring: The Prince of Lies, Lena Tarr, Darren Vargas. With Byron Luck. Introducing: the Easter Bunny.
Pride’s Spell is the third installment in Matt Wallace’s Sin du Jour series.
“I fell in love with this series for its joyous, high-octane sense of mayhem, but I would stay just for the food. When you read it, you’ll forgive me for saying this: each entry leaves you hungry for more.” — Melissa F Olson, author of the Scarlett Bernard series, and Nightshades.
... Read moreSavage Bounty
- By: Matt Wallace
- Narrator: Lameece Issaq
- Length: 10 hours 24 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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4.13(149 ratings)
The sequel to the acclaimed, spellbinding epic fantasy Savage Legion by Hugo Award-winning author Matt Wallace about a utopian city with a dark secret…and the underdogs who will expose it–or die trying.
The call them Savages. Brutal. Efficient. Expendable.
The empire relies on them. The greatest weapon they ever developed. Culled from the streets of their cities, they take the ones no one will miss and throw them, by the thousands, at the empire’s enemies. If they live, they fight again. If they die, well, there are always more.
From Hugo Award-winning author Matt Wallace comes the much-anticipated second installment to the “epic fantasy the genre has been waiting for” (Sarah Gailey, Hugo Award-winning author of Magic for Liars).
Savage Crowns
- By: Matt Wallace
- Narrator: Lameece Issaq
- Length: 8 hours 13 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2023
- Language: English
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4.33(30 ratings)
The final installment in Hugo Award–winning author Matt Wallace’s epic and spellbinding Savage Rebellion trilogy about a utopian city with a dark secret—and the underdogs who will expose it, or die trying.
The final war for the nation of Crache has begun.
At the helm of the people’s rebellion is Evie, the Sparrow General. She has been captured by the Skrian, Crache’s vicious army, and is being brought back to the Capitol for punishment. But reinforcements are coming for her.
Dyeawan, who has climbed from street urchin to Crache’s highest seat of power through clever schemes and ruthless bloodshed, finds trouble on every front once she arrives. The rebellion approaches, and there are whispers of a martyr within the city who holds enough sway to stage a coup. If she doesn’t act quickly, her rule will be short-lived.
As the women who hold the nation’s future meet each other from different sides of the battlefield, will they be able to find a shared vision of Crache, or will they destroy each other first?
Savage Legion
- By: Matt Wallace
- Narrator: Lameece Issaq
- Length: 15 hours 20 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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3.95(425 ratings)
The acclaimed, epic, and spellbinding fantasy by Hugo Award-winning author Matt Wallace, about a utopian city with a dark secret…and the underdogs who will expose it, or die trying.
They call them Savages. Brutal. Efficient. Expendable.
The empire relies on them. The Savages are the greatest weapon they ever developed. Culled from the streets of their cities, they take the ones no one will miss and throw them, by the thousands, at the empire’s enemies. If they live, they fight again. If they die, there are always more to take their place.
Evie is not a Savage. She’s a warrior with a mission: to find the man she once loved, the man who holds the key to exposing the secret of the Savage Legion and ending the mass conscription of the empire’s poor and wretched.
But to find him, she must become one of them, to be marked in her blood, to fight in their wars, and to find her purpose. Evie will die a Savage if she has to, but not before showing the world who she really is and what the Savage Legion can really do.
This remarkable and captivating fantasy will take you on a journey into the heart of brutal battles, dire situations, and odds that seem too high to overcome.
Sin du Jour
- By: Matt Wallace
- Narrator: Corey Gagne
- Length: 12 hours 20 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: February 07, 2017
- Language: English
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3.71(1722 ratings)
Everyone loves a well-catered event, and the supernatural community is no exception. Enter Sin du Jour, the expert caterers to demons, goblins, faeries, and everything in between.
In their first month on the job Lena Tarr and Darren Vargas, the newest line chefs at the supernatural catering agency, have had to approximate angel meat, evade amorous lizards, and provide craft sacrifices for a Hollywood debut. Their coworkers have contended with zombified clowns, fought off the Easter Bunny’s hit squad, and captured a golden fish for a goblin royal wedding. And as if their new jobs weren’t weird enough, now they have to deal with a very personal transformation on the behalf of their mysterious employer. As if surviving as a New York City chef weren’t hard enough.
This collection includes the first three Sin du Jour Affairs, Envy of Angels, Lustlocked, and Pride’s Spell, and the bonus short story ‚ÄúSmall Wars‚Äù.
... Read moreThe Supervillain’s Guide to Being a Fat Kid
- By: Matt Wallace
- Narrator: Mark Sanderlin
- Length: 5 hours 10 minutes
- Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books
- Publish date: January 25, 2022
- Language: English
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4.24(79 ratings)
Matt Wallace, author of Bump, presents a personal, humorous, and body-positive middle grade standalone about a fat kid who wants to stop his bullies . . . and enlists the help of the world’s most infamous supervillain. Perfect for fans of Holly Goldberg Sloan, Julie Murphy, and John David Anderson!
Max’s first year of middle school hasn’t been easy. Eighth-grade hotshot Johnny Pro torments Max constantly, for no other reason than Max is fat and an easy target. Max wishes he could fight back, but he doesn’t want to hurt Johnny . . . just make him feel the way Max feels.
In desperation, Max writes to the only person he thinks will understand: imprisoned supervillain Master Plan, a “gentleman of size.” To his surprise, Master Plan wants to help! He suggests a way for Max to get even with Johnny Pro, and change how the other kids at school see them both.
And it works! When Master Plan’s help pays off for Max in ways he couldn’t have imagined, he starts gaining confidence–enough to finally talk to Marina, the girl he likes in class who shares his passion for baking. With Master Plan in his corner, anything seems possible . . . but is there a price to pay for the supervillain’s help?
* A Junior Library Guild selection *
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