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Matthew is a San Francisco-based LGBTQ+ novelist and screenwriter. The first book in his Jonathan Flite series, The Confessions of Jonathan Flite, was lauded as \u201cgenre-defying\u201d by Publishers Weekly in 2014 and was a Finalist in the 2018 ScreenCraft Cinematic Book Contest. Since 2019, his first four film and TV projects have all garnered industry […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"![\"BioPic\"](\"http:\/\/matthewbeier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/BioPic-300x300.jpg\")
Matthew J. Beier is a novelist, publisher, photographer, and screenwriter based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Since as far back as he can remember, he has been fascinated with visual art and storytelling, especially when they go hand in hand. Born in Duluth, Minnesota, he fostered a knack for these art forms at a very young age\u2014whether by\u00a0painting with watercolors to manage\u00a0his emotions or by drawing pictures to convey\u00a0the stories in his head (and sometimes writing their narrations with the help of his mother).\n\nAfter learning to read in first grade, Matthew lost himself in the worlds of The Boxcar Children<\/em>, Encyclopedia Brown<\/em>, My Teacher Is An Alien<\/em>, Goosebumps<\/em>, and every other epic, adventurous, or mysterious story he could get his hands on. When he was nine years old, the film adaptation of Micheal Crichton's Jurassic Park<\/em> (and, subsequently, the novel itself) changed his life forever. After seeing the film and reading the book the following year, Matthew developed a passion for storytelling that branched in two directions: writing and movie making. He started making dramatized home movies with his siblings and friends at age twelve, when his parents were finally able to buy a Sony Handycam; during other spare moments, he began writing fiction, dreaming that he might someday be able to string enough words together to make a novel.\n\nThese interests influenced Matthew's study of photography and writing in high school and led him in 2003 to Chapman University's School of Film and Television (now Dodge College of Film and Media Arts) in Orange, California. There, he spent three semesters studying screenwriting, film production, and English before spending a final semester abroad at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand, where he studied popular media and art history.\n\nIn 2012, Matthew\u00a0published his first\u00a0novel, The Breeders<\/em>, and in 2014, he published the first in his seven-book Jonathan Flite series,\u00a0The Confessions of Jonathan Flite.<\/em> He published\u00a0the second in the series,\u00a0The Release of Jonathan Flite<\/em>, in 2016. He is currently working\u00a0on the third,\u00a0The Rise of Jonathan Flite<\/em>, and two screenplays.\u00a0Matthew has also been published in\u00a0Publishers Weekly<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The Advocate<\/em> and on multiple blogs.","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewjbeier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2324"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewjbeier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewjbeier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewjbeier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewjbeier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2324"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/matthewjbeier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5394,"href":"https:\/\/matthewjbeier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2324\/revisions\/5394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewjbeier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}