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Sonitotum Episode Fourteen — Promotional Consideration
An episode with lots of other people’s content, including promos, an important medically-related call for help, voicemail calls (well, one, anyway) and three songs, too! Plus a little bit of what I did over Memorial Day Weekend…
Music
- Peril Dance - As If I Was from “Released”
- The Theater Fire - Barrel Riders
from Everybody Has a Dark Side
- Via Audio - Developing Active People
Promos
- Jeff White’s “The Trolls of Lake Maebiewahnapoopie”
- Colin Francis Barnes “Erebus”
- Talechasing
- Sean McGaughey’s K7 Days
- Zombinc HR Services
Links
- Stranger Things
- Balticon 42
- Wander Radio
- For The Sake of the Song
- Swarm Press, publishers of “Brave Men Run - A Novel of the Sovereign Era,” this Sovereign Summer, July 13, 2008!
- Get on the Matt Selznick mailing list and be the first to learn about the amazing plans for July 13, 2008! While you’re at it, you should subscribe to the blog, Scribtotum, and heck, subscribe to Sonitotum, too!
- Help Christine Fisher!
Feed Back!
In addition to leaving a comment right here in the show notes and participating in the Forums…
- Voice Mail: 1-206-600-6364
- Musicians send CDs: MWS Media, PO BOX 402081 Hesperia, CA 92340-2081
- Send an E-Mail
Outro theme: “Bound To Be Free” from the album “Culture of Self” by Dan Wallace.
Show Your Support
Please consider donating whatever you think this episode was worth, with my heartfelt thanks.
Recommended worth: $5.00
Sonitotum Episode 14 - Promotional Consideration [29:42m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (190)Writers: For Your Enjoyment and Enrichment
If you’re a fiction writer or storyteller of any stripe, I strongly, strongly encourage you to subscribe to the podcast feed for the Public Radio International program Selected Shorts.
Every week, you get one to three short stories read by professional actors (names you know and names you don’t; all excellent.) This is top-flight stuff, here, folks — recent stories have been by authors such as Aimee Bender, James Thurber, Jorge Luis Borges, Philip K. Dick, George Saunders, Alice McDermott, T.C. Boyle, and Anton Chekhov, to name a few.
Now, I know a lot of people who read this blog are more interested in genre rather than so-called “literary” stuff, and Selected Shorts only touches on genre works. Stiil, I urge you to give this a shot. The craft of storytelling is identical whether it’s science fiction or suburbia… in fact, I will step out on a not-very-high ledge and say that a lot of genre writers could learn a thing or two about what makes a good story. No, of course I’m not talking to you!
See, the point here is not just to listen to some of the finest short-form literature available… the point is, as a writer, to learn by immersion. Soak this stuff up. Enjoy the stories on an emotional level, as entertainment, sure… but also take the opportunity to analyze what you hear. I find that hearing a short story enables me to better pick out those key “ah, so that’s how they did that” moments.
Give Selected Shorts a try. Subscribe in iTunes or in the podcast client of your choice. Selected Shorts is also, naturally, carried on a number of public radio stations in the United States. Find an NPR station local to you.
Out Of the Darkness They Are Coming For You
During the blackout, the government put up fourteen posters. They were everywhere — storefronts, telephone poles, billboards… always there to remind us that the firm hand of the government would be there to steady us when the crisis had passed.
Breakthrough podcasting author J.C. Hutchins presents “7th Son: Obsidian.” More than a dozen voices presenting stories from the blackout, beginning May 31st. To commemorate this landmark podcasting first, collect all fourteen high-resolution propaganda posters, suitable for printing and framing!
This is the only place you can get poster number eleven, “Misery.” To collect the other thirteen, you must visit these sites:
- 7th Son: OBSIDIAN
- io9.com
- Dragon Page Cover to Cover
- Sarcastic Gamer
- Accident Hash
- Escape Pod
- Variant Frequencies
- Michael A. Stackpole
- Scott Sigler
- Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff
- Mur Lafferty
- Christiana Ellis
- Tee Morris
If you’re coming here from one of those sites… welcome! Enjoy your stay… and come back here on July 13, 2008, to celebrate the paperback release of my novel, “Brave Men Run — A Novel of the Sovereign Era” from Swarm Press!
Download Your Poster Below
Sonitotum Bonus: 7th Son: Obsidian
The blackout. We lost more than the lights. We lost the power: the power over our lives; the illusory power of our freedom and safety and security. We’ve never really fully recovered.
Explore vignettes from those dark days in a new landmark in podcasting from J.C. Hutchins — “7th Son: Obsidian.” Presented by some of the biggest names in podcasting… Michael A. Stackpole , Mur Lafferty, Scott Sigler, Tee Morris, Matt Wallace, and a dozen more.
On May 31st… the power goes out, and “7th Son: Obsidian” begins.
Sonitotum Episode Thirteen — Stand By Your Mind
Been really busy, so here’s a shortish episode to send some well wishings out to different people for very different reasons.
Also: a song from me, a song from a band from this year’s South by Southwest, and some musings.
Music
- Matthew Wayne Selznick - Second “Sister”
- Black Hollies - Paisley Pattern Ground
Promos
Links
- Swarm Press, publishers of “Brave Men Run - A Novel of the Sovereign Era,” Summer 2008!
- Follow me on Twitter!
- Mahalo.com
- The 2008 SXSW Mega-Torrent — one song from each of the bands that played at the 2008 South By Southwest conference
- You’ll need a torrent client to download the SXSW music
- I really like Twhirl as my Twitter client
- Kelly Sizemore Memorial Fund
Feed Back!
In addition to leaving a comment right here in the show notes and participating in the Forums…
- Voice Mail: 1-206-600-6364
- Musicians send CDs: MWS Media, PO BOX 402081 Hesperia, CA 92340-2081
- Send an E-Mail
Outro theme: “Bound To Be Free” from the album “Culture of Self” by Dan Wallace.
Show Your Support
Please consider donating whatever you think this episode was worth, with my heartfelt thanks.
Recommended worth: $5.00
