COURTENAY, May 18, 2006 -- Vancouver Island author Matt Hughes has sold four
novels to four different publishers in three countries over the past seven
months.

MAJESTRUM is the first of three novels about Henghis Hapthorn, a Sherlock
Holmesean sleuth in a far-future Earth, who discovers that the rational
universe to which he is so perfectly adapted is about to switch its ground
rules to operate on magic.

The novel will be released by Night Shade Books, of San Francisco, in October.

THE COMMONS is a science-fiction novel that follows the adventures of Guth
Bandar, an explorer of the human collective unconscious (aka the Commons) as
he comes to realize that the psychic realm that lies all human dreams, myths
and stories has itself become conscious and is pursuing its own agenda.

The novel will be published by the Canadian publisher Fitzhenry and
Whiteside under its Robert J. Sawyer Books imprint, in time for Christmas of
this year.

TEMPLATE is a science-fantasy novel set in a far future when humankind has
spread through many worlds of Earth's arm of the galaxy. It tells the story
of Conn Labro, a professional duelist on a world completely given over to
gaming, as he seeks to uncover the mysterious circumstances of his birth,
while a sinister cult tries to steal his birthright.

It will be released by the UK firm, PS Publishing, in the fall of 2007.

WOLVERINE:LIFEBLOOD is a novel about Marvel Comix's Canadian X-Man, James
Howlett (aka Logan, aka Wolverine). His memories stolen from him by
sinister government agencies, Logan follows clues into his own hidden past,
fighting Nazis in World War II, Meanwhile, an old enemy plots to use his
mutant abilities to pull off a daring assassination plot targeting the
President of the United States.

The book will be released by Pocket Books of New York in the fall of 2007.
Hughes is writing this novel under the pen name, Hugh Matthews.

The four books represent Hughes's fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth novel
sales. His 2004 novel, Black Brillion, and his 2005 short story collection,
The Gist Hunter and Other Stories, are in stores now.