From the Ashes: An Artist Reborn is a compilation of poems, rants, plays, short stories, character sketches, computer draftings and artwork created over the years by Matthew James Alexander Simmons. The purpose of this book is to inspire creativity in those who read it.

Forever A Tomboy is a four-act play that takes us on a journey of a young woman and her friends as she struggles to find her place as well as her true identity in the hellish world more commonly known as high school. She must overcome many obstacles (both internal and external), before she can find true happiness. Armed with a passion for the arts as well as the new girl in town, high school just got a lot crazier