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Hazy Days and Cloudy Nights: “How It All Got Started” is set in the Sovereign Era storyworld (Brave Men Run, Pilgrimage). The action of the first story arc, follows several young people on the edge of the rest of their lives and begins on the first day of summer vacation, 1984.
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Recent Articles and Podcast Episodes
Your Antagonist Is a Philosophical Instrument (The Joker in Nolan and Goyer’s “The Dark Knight”)
April 15, 2022: One for the fiction writers: How the Joker in the movie The Dark Knight is a perfect example of using your antagonist as an instrument to argue the philosophical point of your story.
Earn Money in the Matthew Wayne Selznick Affiliate Program
April 5, 2022: Introducing my affiliate program: your chance to earn money for recommending my books, short stories, non-fiction, and other creative endeavors!
It’s Never Too Early to Create Your Author Marketing Infrastructure
March 14, 2022: When is it time to create your author website, set up your social media, and mailing list? How's six months ago? I explain why the time to get started is right now or sooner!
“Light of the Outsider” Selected by Kevin J. Anderson for Curated StoryBundle
March 4, 2022: Find out how you can get my latest novel and a dozen other epic fantasy novels in the 2022 Truly Epic Fantasy StoryBundle, curated by Kevin J. Anderson.
Presenting a New Website Design
February 12, 2022: Let's talk about all the stuff that's new and different around here... and where the heck I've been the last ten months or so.
Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick 035: Sixteenth Anniversary of “Brave Men Run,” and Stuff
September 10, 2021: Episode 35 of Sonitotum features reflection on the occasion of the 16th anniversary of my landmark indie book Brave Men Run.
Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick 034: Survey Says…
May 9, 2021: It's been seven years since I surveyed my community of friends and fans. Listen to discover what I found out, and what it all means... and what you might learn from it.
What It Took To Write My Novelette “The Perfumed Air at Kwaanantag Bay”
April 8, 2021: A behind-the-scenes, all-access look at the creation of my Shaper's World novelette "The Perfumed Air at Kwaanantag Bay."
Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick 033: A Reading From My Latest Work of Fiction
April 2, 2021: In this episode of Sonitotum, I offer a reading of the opening scenes of my latest work of fiction, the novelette "The Perfumed Air at Kwaanantag Bay," now available from Amazon.