PAGE: books.html – Books · fuller catalog, kept separate from Home gallery per Matt's decision. Fonts/colors below updated to match each book's real style guide (was previously running on placeholder defaults for several cards). Real Q&A excerpts and genre tags dropped in 2026-07-29 from Matt's "Author Website Book Page Copy – Revised." ⚠ Not used yet: that same message included a second set of status/CTA labels per card ("Get Notified Early," "Notify Me," "Published · As Matt Goode," "In Progress · Querying," "In Progress · Research," plus a closing "New work, when it's ready" line) – their exact card-by-card assignment wasn't clear from how the paste was ordered, and guessing wrong here would post a false availability status (e.g. "Published" on a pre-sale title), so these were left out pending Matt confirming which label goes with which card. Also not yet applied: Matt's fuller 5-question Q&A per catalog card (currently trimmed to the first question only, matching the existing single-question pattern) – flag if he'd rather see all 5 on the catalog cards themselves. "Continue reading →" button colors are inconsistent across cards (each currently pulls its own book's brand color); Matt's 2026-07-29 note asked to standardize these to gold – see btn-gold usage below.
The Catalog
All seven titles, in progress and in print.
m kirk
Out now
Balance
Literary Fiction · Debut Novel
1
What happens, and who does it follow?
Ellie Beckett is a CRISPR scientist, thirteen years into a relationship she loves, when she develops feelings for someone else – not instead of Alex, but alongside him.
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Is this book for me?
If you've ever loved someone and needed a story that sits inside that feeling rather than explains it away – yes.
Captain Archie Ellis commands B Company at Ypres in 1917. His orders are overridden by a commander who is wrong. He acts outside them – and 247 men die. The novel follows the full arc of that decision from both sides of the wire.
A biography of the number seven – how a single prime digit embedded itself into calendars, creation stories, musical scales, nervous systems, and pop culture across virtually every civilization, and why it won't let go.
Nathaniel Calloway, 61, built an empire manufacturing belief at scale – an AI engine called the Index, used to shape what forty million strangers feel true before breakfast.
A practical operating system for founders who built something real and got trapped inside it – indispensable and exhausted, nothing moving without them in the room.
This is a working reference, not a narrative – 70 methods for setting goals, solving problems, generating ideas, and making calls under pressure, organized by what you're trying to do in the room.
The book builds one argument in two moves: first the case that dyslexic, autistic, ADHD, and anxious-brained thinkers are exactly the minds a volatile, AI-shaped world now needs, then the system for leading them without asking them to translate themselves first. A sibling to CLUTCH, not a sequel.
