Matthew Wayne Selznick

Matthew Wayne Selznick attends Dragon*Con, America’s largest multimedia genre convention and expo, in Atlanta, Georgia August 31st through September 3rd, 2007.

Matt will be a featured guest on eight panels:

Podcasting for Promotion
Are you a writer, musician, game designer, or trying to promote your brand or grow an audience? Learn the tricks to get a wider audience!
Time: 8/31/2007 4:00:00 PM Location: Jackson/Carter - Hilton (Length: 1 Hour)

Interactive Podcasting (TalkShoe and BlogTalk)
Using some of the most popular live podcasting/net radio services to produce your show, tips and tricks.
Time: 8/31/2007 5:30:00 PM Location: Jackson/Carter - Hilton (Length: 1 Hour)

Marketing for the Independent Creator
One of the biggest challenges for self-publishers and independent creators is getting noticed — without the help of traditional publishing institutions. Discover marketing and PR strategies used by successful self-published authors and podcasters.
Time: 9/1/2007 10:00:00 AM Location: Cherokee - Hilton (Length: 1 Hour)

15 Minutes of Fame (or more) with Web 2.0
Social networking, viral video/photographs, and blogging are the modern artist’s and entrepreneur’s best friend. Learn from Internet professionals how to utilize these tools to pave the way to your own success no matter what your venture may be.
Time: 9/1/2007 4:00:00 PM Location: Cherokee - Hilton (Length: 1 Hour)

Aliens You Will Meet LIVE!
A live puppet based play based on the podcast by the same name.
Time: 9/1/2007 5:30:00 PM Location: Jackson/Carter - Hilton (Length: 30 Min)

Second Annual Parsec Awards Extravaganza!
Join us for the second annual Parsec Awards for excellence in Sci-Fi and Fantasy podcasting!
Time: 9/1/2007 7:00:00 PM Location: Hyatt - Regency 5 (Length: 2.5 Hours)

LuLu TV LIVE!
Lulu TV Loves DragonCon - video mashups and the future of internet broad (pod) casting.
Time: 9/2/2007 10:00:00 AM Location: Jackson/Carter - Hilton (Length: 1 Hour)

Podcasting Your Writing
Tips and Tricks for those who want to podcast your writing and books. Maybe you can hear a chapter or two of a new book!
Time: 9/2/2007 5:30:00 PM Location: Jackson/Carter - Hilton (Length: 1 Hour)

Creative Commons and Legal Issues
Come and discuss all things related to your own content and how to deal with the content of others.
Time: 9/3/2007 11:30:00 AM Location: Jackson/Carter - Hilton (Length: 1 Hour)

Please check the convention calendar to confirm dates, times, and locations.

He’ll have a limited number of copies of his book, “Brave Men Run - A Novel of the Sovereign Era” available for purchase and autographs. If you’re going to be at Dragon*Con this year, please say hello!

Matt Selznick performs in the role of Bob (or is it Satan?) in the Matt Wallace and DM Moerhle story “Old Tricks” on the Variant Frequencies podcast. Featuring Leann Mabry and Rick Stringer.

Listen now, and let Variant Frequencies know what you think!

This week brings two podcasts featuring Matthew Wayne Selznick:

First, the latest episode of the MWS Media podcast Writers Talking is now available, hosted by Matt and featuring Mark Jeffrey and Earl Newton. This eleventh episode is all about adapting prose fiction for the small and silver screens, and can be downloaded here.

Matt is also featured as the reader for the latest episode of the podcast horror magazine, Pseudopod. He reads David Barr Kirtley’s story, “The Disciple.” Download it here but be warned — it contains scenes of animal cruelty and graphic violence as well as eldritch horror.

Matt Selznick hosts the MWS Media podcast Writers Talking… and the newest episode is now available for listening.

Episode eight features Hugo and Nebula award-winning author James Patrick Kelly and author / podcaster Mur Lafferty discuss Worldbuilding and Story Bibles.

Listen to it now!

Do you know how many web sites I have?

Close to a dozen. About half a dozen are active. Last year, my business card had more words on it than some pieces of flash fiction, trying to fit all that stuff on there. It was a little out of hand.

My card now has three sites on it. This one, MWS Media, and MWS Media Podcasts. ‘Cause really, that about covers it.

Last year, my “freelance year,” my life and my time was open, and fluid, and pretty undisciplined. Now that I’m at Mahalo, at least thirteen hours of five days every week is locked down. I love my job, but this means the remaining hours of the week have to be utilized in the best possible way. The Hobos put it best: “The Day Shall Not Be Wasted.” Indeed.

See, here’s the thing. I had some fifteen months, give or take, without a full-time day job. Creatively, it was perhaps the least productive year I’ve had in a long time. Apparently, a bit more structure is needed in Mister Selznick’s life. I have that now, to be sure. Now comes the time to, as much as possible, centralize all the scattered pieces that make up my work habits, my internet presence, and my bizarre, networked social life. It also means letting go of some obligations, both legitimate and assumed.

I’m very open to hear how others have dealt with this kind of compression, this transition, if any of the little dinner party who reads this blog have something to offer. For now, here’s what I’m gonna do:

• Bring my writing projects — past, present, and future — over here to Matt Selznick.com. See a recent post at Pilgrimage for more thoughts on that. Essentially, bravemenrun.com, “Pilgrimage,” and the woefully overdue “Wordhouse” will all redirect to their own pages over here, as well as a-brewing projects.
• Streamline my mailing list by (gasp) utilizing a third-party service rather than rolling my own. “But Matt, that’s so un-DIY of you!” Rule number one — a rule I sometimes neglect for various complicated psychological reasons — is “Never let the tools get in the way of the work.” Using PHPList or Dada or some other script slows me down because they’re more of a pain in the ass than, say, Yahoo! or Google Groups. So that’s coming up.
• Let go of freelancer Matt. I don’t have the time to work a full time job, create my own art, and do freelance stuff. Oddly, I feel a weird sense of guilt when I have to turn down a job, especially when the work comes from clients who gave me the bulk of my jobs in my Freelance Year. This, again, stems from some very interesting psychological stuff, like it being easier (safer) to do stuff for other people than take risks making my own stuff. ‘Nuff of that.
• Close MWS Media Hosting to new accounts as of July 1st. You heard it here first. I’ll keep existing clients, and I hope they hang around a long time, but I’m not going to add any new ones after the end of June, 2007. So if you want some really cheap web hosting with reasonable uptime, act now, callers, ’cause this offer won’t last forever!
  

All of this is going to require some work, and some thought. For example, what does the MWS Media web site become if the hosting and freelancing shingle is taken down? A portal of sorts, I guess… or perhaps it serves no purpose at all? Why couldn’t it redirect to yet another page on this site? Gotta keep the domain going, of course — it’s the first one I ever registered, way back in… 1996? Can’t recall. Been a while.

This has been another one of those “read along while Matt puts his ducks in order in public” posts, but I appreciate your reading, and your feedback and best practices and ideas — I’ve been thinking about this stuff for a few weeks, but only typing it out and releasing it has really given me the drive to do anything about it. So thank you, dinner party.

Time to go to work!