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  • 106: Writers: Are You Doing What Really Matters?

    106: Writers: Are You Doing What Really Matters?
    2024/09/19
    This solo episode of Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick is also a Scribtotum article, because it’s all about big things, big changes for the podcast, and big questions writers, authors, and all creators must ask themselves now and then. Mainly: Are you doing what really matters in your creative life? This episode was recorded on September 13, 2024. What follows is adapted and condensed from the transcript. Time and Money I’ve been doing a lot of thinking, assessing, researching and reading and thinking and researching some to get a good handle on the state of me… and that’s led me to some decisions. For episode 106 of my podcast, Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick, I was toying the addressing the challenges of time and money for most authors, indie or traditional. Usually, services are available where expertise and time are lacking… but those services, while (usually) fairly priced by service providers (like myself), are often outside of the budget
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    55 分
  • 105: In Conversation with Fantasy and Science Fiction Author Juliet Kemp

    105: In Conversation with Fantasy and Science Fiction Author Juliet Kemp
    2024/08/23
    Hey, look! It’s episode 105 of Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick, the podcast about making stuff (mostly writing), finding success as we each define it for ourselves, and staying healthy and sane in the process! This is an interview episode, this time featuring the author Juliet Kemp. From their website: Juliet Kemp (they/them) is a queer, non-binary, writer. They live in London by the river, with their partners, kid, and dog. The first book of their fantasy series, The Deep and Shining Dark, was on the Locus 2018 Recommended Reads list; the fourth and final book, The City Revealed, came out in 2023. They have written several novellas, and their short fiction has appeared in venues including Uncanny, Analog, and Cast of Wonders. They were short-listed for the WSFA Small Press Award in 2020 and 2023 and had a story in the anthology Trans-Galactic Bike Ride, which was Lambda Award shortlisted in 2021. When not writing or child-wrangling, Juliet knits, indulges their fountain p
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    1 時間 34 分
  • 104: How I Use This Free Tool for Writing and Story Bibles

    104: How I Use This Free Tool for Writing and Story Bibles
    2024/07/17
    A week late, but you don’t care! Here’s episode 104 of Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick, the podcast about making stuff (mostly writing), finding success as we each define it for ourselves, and staying healthy and sane in the process! This is a solo episode in which I share how I’m using Obsidian, a knowledge management application, as a replacement for both Scrivener and story bible / worldbuilding software as I conceive and write my next novel, Shadow of the Outsider. This episode was recorded on July 10, 2024. Links and Topics Mentioned in This Episode Scrivener is arguably the most popular software for writers, with yWriter being a free and lightweight alternative. Obsidian is a free, cross-platform knowledge management application with tremendous flexibility balanced with broad compatibility and underlying simplicity. Other knowledge management applications include Notion, Microsoft OneNote, or Tana, but there are many others. It’s a rapidly growing
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    39 分
  • 103: In Conversation with Horror Author Thom Carnell

    103: In Conversation with Horror Author Thom Carnell
    2024/06/26
    Episode 103 of Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick, the podcast about making stuff (mostly writing), finding success as we each define it for ourselves, and staying healthy and sane in the process… features a conversation with the horror and horrific fantasy author Thom Carnell. “Thom Carnell is a writer whose fiction has been featured in Swank magazine (adult content), Carpe Noctem magazine, and in the horror anthology Bloody Carnival from Pill Hill Press. He is best known for his insightful interviews and profiles in Carpe Noctem, Fangoria magazine, and on Dread Central & Twitchfilm.com. His novels (No Flesh Shall Be Spared, No Flesh Shall Be Spared: Don’t Look Back, and the upcoming Monolith Records) and short story collections (Moonlight Serenades, A String of Pearls, Tuxedo Junction, Horror Book, Tales from the Lazaretto, and the upcoming Open Late) are available through Amazon.com and Crossroad Press. Carnell is a graduate of the San Francisco College of
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    1 時間 17 分
  • 102: Checking In: What’s New; What’s Next; Fears

    102: Checking In: What’s New; What’s Next; Fears
    2024/06/12
    In episode 102, I take the opportunity to catch up with you regarding my latest fiction release, the novelette “Reggie vs Kaiju Storm Dragon Squidbat.” Also, I talk about bringing my next project, the Shaper’s World novel SHADOW OF THE OUTSIDER, from the back burner to the front, and touch on the trepidation and fears I’m facing with regard to that work. This episode was recorded on June 9, 2024. Links and Topics Mentioned in This Episode This episode includes some follow-up to topics mentioned in the sixth anniversary episode. My latest work of fiction is “Reggie vs Kaiju Storm Dragon Squidbat.” It’s the latest work in my Daikaiju Universe storyworld. The first is “Reggie vs Kaiju Storm Chimera Wolf.” “…Dragon Squidbat” is inspired, in part, by 1970s Godzilla movies. …and in another part by certain works by H. P. Lovecraft. My day job always has a part to play in what’s news. Perhaps there’s so
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    44 分
  • 101: In Conversation with Science Fiction Author AJ Super

    101: In Conversation with Science Fiction Author AJ Super
    2024/05/29
    In this 101st episode of Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick, the podcast about making stuff (mostly writing), finding success as we each define it for ourselves, and staying healthy and sane in the process… it’s a conversation with science fiction author AJ Super! AJ Super is the author of the Seven Stars Saga, a trilogy published by Aethon Books and Blackstone Audio. Writing full time, they devour fantasy and science fiction in every medium, and even experiment with writing and reading other speculative fiction now and again. They earned two Bachelors’ degrees from the University of Idaho in the Creative Writing and Theater programs, and they have been an author since they were old enough to write (and illustrate) a stapled-together ABC book, which is still packed away in a box of childhood memorabilia. AJ is inspired by Ursula K. Le Guin, Anne McCaffery, Octavia E. Butler, Mercedes Lackey, and other amazing female science fiction and fantasy authors. They are
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    1 時間 11 分
  • 100: Six Years of Sonitotum

    100: Six Years of Sonitotum
    2024/05/01
    Six years and one day to the day after the very first episode, it’s time for episode 100 of Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick, the podcast about making stuff (mostly writing), finding success as we each define it for ourselves, and staying healthy and sane in the process. This is a solo episode (and a car cast) in which I take stock of my own state when it comes to making stuff, finding success, and staying healthy and sane… especially compared to how that was all going when the first episode of this podcast was released one hundred episodes and six years ago. Long-time listeners will recognize this as a return to the highly transparent, vulnerable solo episodes that were once the mainstay of this show. If these kinds of episodes appeal to you, be sure to let me know by leaving a comment! This episode was recorded on April 29, 2024. This episode took about seven hours to record, produce, and deliver to you. Links and Topics Mentioned in This Episode I was inspired to
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    37 分
  • 099: In Conversation with Contemporary and Historical Fiction Author Maureen Morrissey

    099: In Conversation with Contemporary and Historical Fiction Author Maureen Morrissey
    2024/04/17
    It’s time for the 99th Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick, the podcast about making stuff (mostly writing), finding success as we each define it for ourselves, and staying healthy and sane in the process. Settle in for an in-depth and evergreen conversation with historical and literary fiction author Maureen Morrissey! Maureen Morrissey is a writer for online publications and a published novelist; retired educator; and wife/mother/grandmother/dog mommy. She is an amateur photographer; traveler who loves to wander and wonder; and most recently, half-marathon runner. In her spare time, she attends live theater events and rock concerts, and investigates the integrity of roof top bars in her hometown NYC. Maureen has been a writer for as long as she remembers. She began writing her first novel, Woven: Six Stories, One Epic Journey in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic, the day after retiring from teaching fourth grade. It was published in November of 2020. She published a second
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    1 時間 16 分