Matt Beaumont
British writer
Matthew Beaumont is a British novelist and former copywriter.
Beaumont made his debut in 2000 with the comic novel, e. The Novel of Liars, Lunch and Lost Knickers, which consists entirely of e-mails composed by the staff of one advertising office. A recent example of an epistolary novel, it is generally recognised as one of the first e-mail novels.
For the BBC, Beaumont created the storyline of the alternate reality game, Jamie Kane (2005).
Novels
e (2000)
The e Before Christmas (2000)
The Book, the Film, the T-shirt (2002)
Staying Alive (2004)
Where There's a Will (2007)
Small World (2008)
e Squared (2010)
See also
Carl Steadman's "Two Solitudes", a 1995 e-mail story
List of contemporary epistolary novels.
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