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- 027: (Mis)Adventures In Audiobooks
The underlying purpose of Sonitotum is to share my experiences as an experienced beginner making things, finding success, and staying healthy and sane, and hopefully, provide value through teachable moments.
That doesn’t mean it’s always easy to share the mistakes! Indeed, my ego and personal fragility almost convinced me to… under-represent… my most recent mis-steps.
Almost.
Instead, in this episode, I talk about the long road I stumbled down in completing the audiobook edition of my latest novel, Light of the Outsider, including some pretty massive last-mile fumbles… and how I know better, and what I’ll do to avoid these errors in the future.
It’s all stuff I hope you can learn from, and, heck, probably get a bit of a laugh out of in the process.
Links and Topics Mentioned In This Episode- Light of the Outsider is the debut novel in my Shaper’s World Cycle, book one of the Outsider Trilogy, and a stand-alone character-driven gritty fantasy / thriller hybrid.
- Order the audiobook of Light of the Outsider, read by the author (that’s me), directly from me via Gumroad.
- ACX is Audible.com‘s self-publishing platform. They’re very much behind on processing new submissions, so it’s going to be a while before the Light of the Outsider audiobook is available there… order direct from me!
- Audible’s not the only game in town. I use Findaway Voices to distribute my audiobooks to all the other audiobook marketplaces in the world, plus libraries.
- The Zoom recorder I used to record the Light of the Outsider audiobook is the H4. I bought mine eleven years ago… it’s no longer available.
- I mention The Big Plan. You can hear about it or read about it.
- Have you joined the mailing list community of friends and fans? When you do, you’ll get free weekly serial fiction delivered to your inbox as my gift to you.
What Did You Think About This Episode?What are your thoughts? Let’s hear from you in the comments!
This content is by Matthew Wayne Selznick and came from his website.30 min - 026: How’s That Big Plan Going?
A few weeks ago, I unveiled my ambitious and possibly audacious creative plan for the next seven years.
How’s it going so far? Listen and find out…
Links and Topics Mentioned In This Episode- ACX is the self-publishing platform for Audible.com audiobooks.
- World Creator is an incredibly powerful 3D terrain and landscape generator.
- When I say “3D,” I don’t mean the “comin’ atcha” variety…
- The Mandalorian, Game of Thrones, and His Dark Materials are among the many TV shows using the free Unreal Engine software for photo-realistic backgrounds and effects.
- Blender is a free 3D graphics and rendering engine.
- A Horse With No Name is a song by America. It was one of the first 45 RPM records I owned (look that up, kids). I accidentally nearly quote from it this episode…
- This article details the decades-long origin of my debut Shaper’s World Cycle novel, Light of the Outsider.
This content is by Matthew Wayne Selznick and came from his website.23 min - 025: The Big Plan
This episode of Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick is cross-posted with the Scribtotum article also entitled “The Big Plan.” Read it there, and / or listen here.
What’s The Big Plan? Only the focus of the next seven years of my life. Listen to find out why I’m doing this, and why it might matter to you, too.
Links and Topics Mentioned In This Episode- My Scribtotum article spelling out — for you and for me — why I blog.
- P. G. Holyfield.
- Episode 24 of Sonitotum, in which I talk about Grant Bulltail.
- The Sovereign Era cycle of novels, short stories, and other works.
- Light of the Outsider, the debut novel in the Shaper’s World cycle.
- Brave Men Run, my first novel and the first of the Sovereign Era titles.
- The Sonitotum episode in which I talk about my experimentation with Amazon advertising.
- The author, educator, and worldbuilder Scott Walker.
- Want to understand my experience as an introvert? Read this.
- My Scribtotum article on resisting procrastination and being more productive.
- What is context switching, and why does it explain why multitasking is so awful?
- Hazy Days and Cloudy Nights: “How It All Got Started” is my free serial fiction offering. Subscribe!
- It would mean a lot to me if you’d join my community of friends and fans.
- My Facebook pages focused on my creative and professional sides.
- The Instagram page for my creative endeavors.
- If I’m on social media much at all these days, I’m on Twitter.
- Buy my fiction and non-fiction, please.
- Why reading character-based fiction improves empathy.
- My collection of literary short fiction and essays is called Four Stories.
- The Stranger by Albert Camus.
What Did You Think About This Episode?What are your thoughts? Let’s hear from you in the comments!
This content is by Matthew Wayne Selznick and came from his website.38 min - 024: Don’t Wait; Don’t Be Scared
In this episode of Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick, your self-referential host touches on two different topics and, wait, what? Turns out they’re both pretty much about the same thing. Also, an update on my next work of fiction, the Shaper’s World novella “The Perfumed Air at Kwaanantag Bay.”
Links and Topics Mentioned In This Episode- Are we really more creative when we’re tired? This study supports the idea… and this article goes into detail so you don’t have to pay to access the study itself.
- I’ve been using composition books with graph paper instead of college- or wide-ruled paper since the mid-eighties for various creative endeavors. Something about printing block letters on tiny squares is so satisfying…
- Grant Bulltail, 2019 National Endowment for the Arts Heritage Fellow.
- Writing makes us face tough stuff.
- I talked at length about creating engaging characters in this episode of Sonitotum.
- P. G. Holyfield contributed a novelette to the Sovereign Era universe, “Canary In a Coal Mine.”
- I’m working on a… not a five year plan. Call it an eighty month plan.
- If you have the means and the inclination, please consider becoming my patron.
- Some of my oldest and most dedicated friends and fans are part of my mailing list community. Won’t you be my neighbor?
- My mobile podcast app of choice is Podcast Addict.
What Did You Think About This Episode?What are your thoughts? Let’s hear from you in the comments!
This content is by Matthew Wayne Selznick and came from his website.29 min - Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick 023: Ask Me Anything (Part 2 of 2)
It’s time for the second part (of two) of the “ask me anything” here on Sonitotum! You can find part one here. This time, I finish answering the remaining three questions submitted by Rebecca Burns.
The Questions- What is your experience with writing groups? Critique groups? Collaborative projects?
- When you’ve coached other artists, what revelations have you had or advice have you given that surprised you (like, “Why had I never thought of this before?” or “I wish someone had told me this 10 years ago!”
- How much of your creative energy is spent on your own writing vs. your music vs. helping other artists and how much energy do you spend on non-creative activities? Is this the right balance for you? If not, how would you wish to distribute your energy?
Listen to the episode for my answers!
Have questions of your own for future episodes? Submit them any time! The easiest way is to simply comment on this episode.
Links and Topics Mentioned In This Episode- My notekeeping / outlining / to-do list / offboard brain app of choice is the amazingly flexible, cross-platform Dynalist.
- Looking for an online and local writer’s critique group with a really supportive community online and off? Try the Coffee House Writer’s Group, especially their Facebook Group.
- You can find some fossil evidence of Sovereign Serials at the Internet Archive.
- These days, the Sovereign Era exists as books and short stories.
- The latest Sovereign Era work is the short story “The News From Bewilder Pond.”
- Once upon a time, I was published by Swarm Press. They’re not a thing anymore.
- The Sovereign Era: Year One was my first big collaborative project as a “storyworld runner” and overall editor.
- P. G. Holyfield contributed a novelette to the Sovereign Era universe, “Canary In a Coal Mine.”
- Matt Maxwell, author. Read his comics, novels, short stories, and essay collections!
- Matt and I wrote our teen epic Devastator on his mom’s word processor. Considering she’s Ann Maxwell (aka many-times bestselling author Elizabeth Lowell), it’s safe to say that machine was slumming it that day.
- I help writers solve their problems. Find out how I can be Your Story Buddy.
- In fact, helping writers and other creators is how I earn a living. How can I help you?
- Ghetto Rescue Foundation is a dog rescue and adoption non-profit I assist from time to time.
- Sometimes I make music and record myself playing it in front of some bookshelves, and then I throw the result on YouTube.
What Did You Think About This Episode?What are your thoughts? Let’s hear from you in the comments!
This content is by Matthew Wayne Selznick and came from his website.34 min - 022: Ask Me Anything (Part 1 of 2)
This episode of Sonitotum features my answers to questions asked by listeners — what the online folk call an “AMA” (Ask Me Anything). You know I tend to be long-winded, so of the six questions submitted, this episode covers three. Stay tuned for the other three in episode twenty three… you might want to subscribe so you don’t miss it!
The Questions- Rebecca Burns asked, “Have any of your story characters been influenced by real-life people (friends, enemies, colleagues, family, authors, politicians, actors, etc)–if so, who, how, and why? (and do they know or is it a secret homage?)”
- J. C. Hutchins asked, “What is your process for crafting believable, relatable characters in your fiction?”
- Rebecca also asked, “Who is your biggest cheerleader? Who encourages you to persevere as an artist?”
Listen to the episode for my answers!
Links and Topics Mentioned In This Episode- Brave Men Run, the first of my Sovereign Era novels and stories.
- Mission Viejo, California.
- The O’Neal family.
- The Segerstrom family.
- Pilgrimage, the second Sovereign Era novel.
- Sorry, Jennifer Aniston. I’ll have my people call your people.
- “Get to Know Your Worst Self,” my article on how to write bad guys.
- Light of the Outsider, my latest novel.
- My article on beating procrastination for writers and other creators.
- WTF with Marc Maron.
- Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso.
- Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum (apologies, Michael, for spacing out on your last name…)
- Scott Roche, author of the Esho St. Claire Mysteries, and other works.
- My interview on the World Craft Club Podcast.
- My favorite reader review of Light of the Outsider… so far…
- Consider becoming a member of my mailing list community of friends and fans… it’s free, and I’ll send you my first novel as a thank you.
- If you have the desire and the means, consider lending your support to my creative endeavors — become a patron.
- Want to get in touch with me? I mention a lot of ways in the episode. You could start here.
What Did You Think About This Episode?What are your thoughts? Let’s hear from you in the comments!
This content is by Matthew Wayne Selznick and came from his website.50 min - 021: The Squirrel Trappers Ruin Everything
This outdoor episode features an update on the Amazon advertising experiment I started about a month before, some news about progress on my upcoming novella set in the same storyworld as my novel Light of the Outsider, my secret plan to fight inflation tips on how to get away from Facebook when you can’t leave Facebook, and… yeah, there’s also some ranting about… some things.
When all was said and done, no squirrels were trapped or otherwise harmed during the recording of this episode… but… real talk, dear listener… I’m not in the best headspace in this one.
Despite that, or maybe because of that, there’s still plenty of value for your ears. I really do try to teach and share through the bitching and grousing.
Links and Topics Mentioned In This Episode- Harold J. Johnson’s pioneering podcast was called Something That Happened. You can find several examples of his micro-episodes at OpenPodcast.org — all from the very same month and year I started podcasting myself. Harold, please come back to the mic.
- Brave Men Run, the first of my Sovereign Era novels and stories.
- Light of the Outsider, my latest novel.
- My new Audio-Technica ATH-M20x Professional Studio Monitor headphones replaced a pair of Sennheisers I’d used for at least a decade. I expect to get just as much use out of these!
- J.C. Hutchins is an author you — as a listener of this show — probably already know. Whether you do or don’t, go forth and buy his stuff.
- Facebook is probably not so good for you.
- Want to get in touch with me? I mention a lot of ways in the episode. You could start here.
You Can Help Shape the Next EpisodeEpisode 022 of Sonitotum will be an Ask Me Anything show… if I get enough questions! So… ask me anything! You can write your question in the comments section of this post. It’s easy! But don’t wait! I need your question by September 8, 2020 (in the episode, I say September 5).
What Did You Think About This Episode?What are your thoughts? Let’s hear from you in the comments!
This content is by Matthew Wayne Selznick and came from his website.36 min - 020: In Dreams, I Walk… and Walk…
Another (parked) car-cast episode of Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick! This time, I’ve got the lav mic going into my smartphone via the HD Audio Recorder app (which I suddenly can’t find in the Google Play store, making me wonder if it’s some kind of horrible malware and I didn’t know… ah well; works great!)
Anyway, there’s some wind noise and a little background randomness, but I think you’ll find the audio quality is much improved.
This episode, I share some dreams I’ve had lately, and what they might be trying to tell me about my mental health, especially with regard to my creative practice. It comes down to finding a metaphorical safe space to make things… perhaps.
You tell me! Provide your own feedback in the comments section of this post, if you like!
This content is by Matthew Wayne Selznick and came from his website.21 min - 019: Service, Justice, and Creation
It’s a (parked) car-cast episode of Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick! I continue to experiment with using my Audio-Technica lavaliere mic to allow me to do more spontaneous podcasting without worrying about finding the perfect time or perfect environment.
This episode includes…
- What I recognized about my sense of personal justice following two lousy (and one good) customer service experiences
- Why a service-based approach is so important
- My new mentoring / coaching service for writers, Your Story Buddy, including a listener-only discount offer on your first session
- Voicemail feedback for Sonitotum 018 from Christopher Miller
Provide your own feedback in the comments section of this post, if you like!
Links and Topics Mentioned in This Episode- The service-profit chain
- Borders Books and Music
- The type of padlock I was struggling to remember is a discus padlock. The “bar” that does the actual locking is called the “shank.”
- Hawkeye Pierce, in particular, his sense of humor
What Did You Think About This Episode?What are your thoughts? Let’s hear from you in the comments!
This content is by Matthew Wayne Selznick and came from his website.38 min - 018: A Voice in the Desert
Hello! It’s a new episode of Sonitotum… and thanks to a simpler, more streamlined, and more portable approach to recording (which I talk about in the episode), there will be more to come in the weeks ahead. I miss talking to all y’all!
In this episode, I talk about…
- What inspired my return to the mic
- My next fiction project, what it’s going to take, and what it’s going to give
- Solitude
- My ongoing experiment with Amazon Sponsored Product advertising
And I ask you: What are you doing to engage with your creativity in this pandemic era? (You can respond in the comments section of this post, if you like!)
Links and Topics Mentioned in This Episode- Brave Men Run
- The Sovereign Era books and short stories
- Light of the Outsider, my latest novel
What Did You Think About This Episode?What are your thoughts? Let’s hear from you in the comments!
This content is by Matthew Wayne Selznick and came from his website.25 min
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