Matthew Wayne Selznick

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MULTIVERSE MAGAZINE PUBLISHES DECEMBER ISSUE, PAYS CONTRIBUTORS

Hesperia, California, USA — Multiverse Magazine, the on-line publication presenting short fiction with an emphasis on world-building, has released its second issue at http://www.multiversemagazine.com.

Editor and Publisher Matthew Wayne Selznick of MWS Media (http://www.mwsmedia.com) is pleased to announce cutting the first checks for contributors to the November issue of the magazine.

“We have a compensation model that depends on advertising revenue. While some have questioned the effectiveness of this approach, I’m proud to say we had enough advertising revenue to pay our November contributors a modest amount. As Multiverse Magazine grows in popularity, so will our revenue, and our ability to pay authors even more.”

Most Internet fiction magazine do not pay contributors. Selznick hopes to draw authors and readers to Multiverse Magazine with his advertising-dependent compensation policies.

“If an author publishes in Multiverse Magazine,” Selznick went on, “that author will get paid. It might not be much, but there’s a potential for some income every month for six months.”

Each author’s piece remains in the magazine’s archives for six months.

Multiverse Magazine is published monthly.

Contact information:

Multiverse Magazine
http://www.multiversemagazine.com

Parent company MWS Media
http://www.mwsmedia.com
PO BOX 402081
Hesperia CA 92340-2081
760-964-8044

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I just finished trimming my blog-style MWS Media site down to one page.

See, I came to the realization that, while I strongly believe in the DIY ethos, and while I?m so into supporting the indie movement that I switched to Linux and I don?t use mp3s (go Ogg Vorbis — it?s open source and free of patents!), I wasn?t the right person to be hosting a web site supposedly promoting all that stuff. There are others who do it better!

What I do is write stuff, edit other people?s stuff, and create music. So now MWS Media simply leads visitors to where that?s all happening.

Learning to focus and hone the edge of my passions is quite possibly my life lesson. Okay, one of them..!

I made a pleasant discovery a couple of days ago — a two-dvd set from Mike Peters, the old frontman and founding member of the Alarm. Apparently recorded on the twentieth anniversary of the band?s formation, it?s Mike telling the story of the band from start to finish, with a nifty slideshow and thirty six! songs performed solo acoustic.

Yeah, I know — if you remember the Alarm at all, it?s because of their faux Bob Dylan western outfits, their forty foot hair, and the video of 68 Guns. Their music might be a little dated, it?s true, but I learned how to play guitar from their first two albums. They showed me that acoustic music can be punk as shit, say something real, and have heart, all at once.

Also, they remind me of the bond I had with an old friend, and the music we played together. That friend and I have ideological differences that I think keep us from being too close these days, but we still keep in touch, and I still credit him with shaping much of my musical creative style. We played a lot of Alarm covers those days. When I see Mike Peters waxing nostalgic about his old band, I can?t help thinking about it all!

Those were days filled with righteous idealism and fierce hope — the definition of youth, I think. It?s important to carry that through our whole lives!

Well, I?ve been off work on vacation since the 7th, and tomorrow I return.

What did I accomplish this last week?

Well. I managed to set up my desktop computer with Linux and Windows 2000 more or less the way I want it — Linux on the larger hard drive, Windoze on the smaller. I?d be all Linux, all the time, but there are just a couple of things it won?t do just yet — recognize my ancient digital camera, and run most of my audio recording and mixing software. When the Linux community catches up in those regards (or when I buy a better camera…) I?ll be the first to jump on board. I want to be rid of Windows.

I wrote the next column for Writer?s Unbound — it?s an ongoing series following my progress as I write a novel called ?Brave Men Run.? The idea is that writers who are even wetter behind the ears than I can learn from my successes and mistakes…

I put most of my collections of Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction up on E-Bay, something I?d wanted to do for a while. Bittersweet, deciding to part with those, but I hadn?t taken them out of their boxes for probably a year or more, and it?s been even longer since I read one…

I cleaned up my office, sort of.

I saw Matrix: Revolutions. Hm. Lots of stolen ideas, just like the first two movies. The whole trilogy turned out to be a lot more about Hindu mythology than I realized — the Matrix as Brahma. Nice twist, but lots and lots of flaws. Perhaps a topic for another entry.

Donated my Neon — the car I took with me from my 1st marriage and never really wanted — to the SPCA. I cannot tell you how good it feels to not see that damn thing in the driveway anymore. Bye bye! I would have done it for no tax deduction, I swear.

Changed web hosts from nexpoint.com (yuck) to 1and1.com, who are offering a better package for FREE!!! for three years. Almost too good to be true. The whole process was fairly painless, too.

Did some catch up and clean up work on my MWS Media EMM SilverStar project. That?s getting to be successful to the point of being unwieldly, which is not a bad problem to have, I know.

Went to the Lakers / Heat game tonight. Fun to go ?down the hill.? Ate at Cantor?s, which is always a pleasure. The Lakers slaughtered the Heat so badly it was very nearly boring to watch.

There?s so much I still need to do. I have a ?Worldwrights? column to do for Multiverse Magazine. I have writing to do, period. I have to finish my music archive project. I have to re-do the MWS Media website (yet again.) I have more filing and organization to do. I have to blah blah blah…

I?m not ready to go back to my day job, I tell you wut.

But I have to. Gotta be there in ten hours, in fact. Time to shower and go to bed.

So it’s been a while since I’ve written much — since the fires settled down, anyway. I guess I don’t have the urge to do reportage, or whatever it was I was doing during that week.

So my new magazine is out there. I’m hoping (hint) that some folks will contribute fiction to it for the next issue — I’d like to reach a point before very long where months go by without a story by yours truly is in there. It’s not that I don’t want to write — it’s that more people will come to the site if there’s a range of writers. I’m not interested in making it a showcase for my own work.

This is a poor-ass entry, I know. Mainly, I’m trying to keep in the habit.