Matthew Wayne Selznick

I have greater and greater respect for people who make big things out of little things.

Carpenters. Programmers. Mosaic artists. Tapestry weavers. LEGO enthusiasts. Authors of gignormous multi-volume novels, and intricate gignormous single-volume novels.

“Pilgrimage” is not a big book — probably come in under 100,000 words. But it’s a big thing for me. My biggest writing challenge so far in my baby writing career. Multiple point of view characters means more than just telling the story through different sets of eyes… it means that each one of these viewpoint characters has a story to tell. Somehow, they’ve all got to come together. Or do they?

We’ll see.

I’m not whining, for once. I’m feeling good, really. It’s like a kind of workout. I’m bulking up. I’m gonna be totally pumped uuup, as Ahnahld would say. When this is all done, ask me how much I can bench. G’won, ask me.

Matthew Wayne Selznick will be a guest at the Podcast and New Media Expo in Ontario, California, September 28 through September 30, 2007. The PNME is the largest annual gathering of podcasters, vidcasters, and other new media creative people, companies, and related industries.

Find Matt at the following events during the Expo:

Saturday, September 29, 12:00 - 12:30 PM:
Booth 617, autographing copies of his book “Brave Men Run - A Novel of the Sovereign Era.” A limited number of copies of the paperback will be available for purchase at the booth. THIS EVENT IS FREE.

Saturday, September 29, 2:00 - 3:00 PM:
“Veterans of the Yahoo! Podcasting Board: What We’ve Learned These Past Two Years” Join Matt, Stephen Eley, Evo Terra, Michael W. Dean, and Ed Vawter in Ballroom B. From the official program: New content creators will be able to shave two years off of their learning curve by listening to these panelists. THIS EVENT REQUIRES FULL REGISTRATION.

Sunday, September 30, 12:30 - 1:00 PM:
Booth 607, L.A. Podcasters, where Matt will host a Writer’s Panel with guests Evo Terra, Mur Lafferty, and Larry Winfield. Each writer will share how podcasting has affected their careers for the better, including their favorite anecdote as a writer / podcaster. This panel will likely be included in a future episode of Writers Talking. THIS EVENT IS FREE.

Additionally, Matt plans to attend the PodCampSoCal event the day before the official PNME, Thursday, September 27. This “unconference” will take place at the Ontario Convention Center in Ballroom C from 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM. Matt plans to discuss repurposing the written word for podcasting. THIS EVENT IS FREE.

Yesterday I received a package from Amazon. I didn’t order anything from Amazon.

Turns out, it was a pack of 50 8x blank DVD-Rs!

Someone… some kind anonymous person out there… bought it for me from my admittedly forgotten-all-about Amazon Wish List!

So thank you, mysterious one! You’ve inspired me to add a few more things to the list!

Catch up with Matthew Wayne Selznick in the latest episode of Sonitotum, the podcast companion to his blog, Scribtotum… listen to it right now.

Two episodes of the MWS Media podcast Writers Talking, hosted by Matt, are available:

• Flash Fiction, with J.R. Blackwell and Jared Axelrod — listen right now
• Short Stories, with Steve McDermott and Seth Harwood — listen right now.

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Thanks to Paul Fischer

It’s a catch-up episode, a little tickle to your feed reader to remind you that Sonitotum is still here… the first episode in four months!

I felt the need to say hello, and fill you in on what’s up, and what’s coming up. In this episode, among other things, find ramblings about…

• Balticon 41
• Mahalo
• Dragon*Con
• Writers Talking
• “Triple Bind Knot” by PIGBAT
• The Podcast and New Media Expo
• An announcement about “Pilgrimage.”

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