Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick
Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick is all about creating a healthy, sane, and successful writing life as seen through the personal insights, reflections, and observations of a pioneering indie publisher with the perspective of an experienced perpetual beginner.
Episodes
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 sa...
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 wif...
The 98th 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, features a conversation with post-cyberpunk science fiction thriller author Bryan Chaffin.
Bryan Chaffin is the author of science fiction thriller Accidental Intelligence. As of April 2024, he’s working on the follow up nove...
It’s here! The premiere episode of the 2024 season of Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick, a podcast about making stuff (mostly writing!), finding success as we each define it for ourselves, and staying healthy and sane in the process!
Listen to learn about the fifteen guests I’ve recorded for the season, what to expect across the planned twenty episodes to come, the Very Special Year in which this season takes place,...
Episode 096 of Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick comes to you a couple months before the “official” beginning of the 2024 season of the show, which debuts on March 20, 2024. This interim episode presents a take on my new website design, and the renewed and expanded artistic commitment to my community, that’s more vulnerable, transparent, and, sure, emotional than the “nuts and bolts” overview prese...
Hey! It’s time for another episode of Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick! This time, I sit down and talk about making stuff (mostly writing), finding success as we each define it, and staying healthy and sane in the process with horror and “weird” fiction author Anna Ziegelhof!
In our wide-ranging and free-wheeling discussion, we touch on the shift from writing as an escape to writing as a vocation, crafting fi...
Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick is back with another in-depth, evergreen podcast episode conversation on making stuff (mostly writing), finding success as we each define it, and staying healthy and sane in the process.
This time around, I speak with multi-genre pulp author R. Jean Mathieu.
He provides a fascinating perspective on the creative writing life, owing to his intersecting influences of Taoist philosophy, karate, and...
How about another in-depth, deep-diving, evergreen conversation about creative writing, finding success as we each define it, and staying healthy and sane in the process? In Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick 093, I speak with transcendental horror author and speculative poet Darius Jones.
Our conversation covers the deeper, emotionally resonant value of horror and “weird” fiction, how Darius fills the “fiction...
Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick 092 presents advice for introvert writers and authors, drawn from my own experience as an introvert usually without very much solitude or free time… presented at a time when… for the moment… I have both.
This is a solo episode full of personal observations, reflections, admissions, and memories… all of which, I think you’ll find, serve as stand-ins for issues faced...
In the latest in-depth and evergreen author interview on Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick, I speak with historical non-fiction biographer Teresa Wilhelm Waldof, author of Wilhelm’s Way: The Inspiring Story of the Iowa Chemist Who Saved the Manhattan Project.
If you’re interested in the new Oppenheimer movie and another side of the true story of the Manhattan Project, you’ll want to hear this conversation!
Tog...
It’s time for another in-depth author interview on Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick! This time around, I speak with romance author Debra Parmley (also find her on Amazon, Facebook, and Twitter)!
And by the way, just in case you’re thinking, “nah, I’m not a Romance fan; this isn’t for me,” I urge you to press “play.” This is a conversation about writing fiction, reading fiction,...
Exhaustion calls for a brief (single episode) intermission of sorts in episode 089 of Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick.
Listen to find out the what and the why!
This episode was recorded on June 28th, 2023.
Links and Topics Mentioned in This Episode
- My day job? I’m a creative services provider helping authors, podcasters and other creators. How can I help you?
- Melissa’s Hip Replacement Recovery Fund.
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It’s time for another in-depth author interview on Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick! Enjoy a conversation with historical fantasy romance author Celia Lake (also find her on Amazon, Facebook, and Twitter)!
We get a lot in with this one, including lots of juicy worldbuilding and process talk, the importance of regimens and planning to build a creative life, and dealing with chronic illness and a demanding full time job ...
It’s time for a solo episode of Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick!
In addition to letting you know what I’ve been up to recently in my creative writing life, I discuss recent developments and revelations in artificial intelligence that have forced me to Take a Stand (capital T, capital S).
Also: a little bit on the recent Amazon KDP categories update, and an interesting unintended consequence…
This episode was...
This time on Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick: A conversation with the award-nominated, prolific Canadian urban and epic fantasy author Krista Walsh (also find her on Amazon, Facebook, and Instagram. We cover process, fiction as self-analysis, time management and productivity, writing software, community and team building, mental health and, as usual, so much more.
It’s a conversation full of laughter and, most important...
In this 85th episode of Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick, I present my thoughts and reflections after attending the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association 2023 58th Nebula Awards conference in Anaheim, California.
Rather than a minute-by-minute recap of the conference and the 58th annual Nebula Awards ceremony, this is a more personal recollection of my experience, as well as musing on What It All Means (including, if...
This 84th episode of Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick is an encore episode re-presenting (with some new content) episode 006, “Your Creative Family.” It’s from June of 2018, so it’s very likely new to you… whether you haven’t heard it yet, or simply forgotten it! So, enjoy.
From the Original Episode
For many years, I’ve referred to Ray Bradbury as my “story father.”...
This time on Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick: A conversation with the award-nominated Australian author of children’s fantasy books and stories, Jeffery E. Doherty (also find him on Amazon, Facebook, and Twitter!).
Jeffery E. Doherty is also an illustrator, speaker, book reviewer, and book cover designer. His books include Paper Magic and his darkly humorous upper middle grade fantasy series The Guardians of St. Giles.
...It’s the 82nd episode of Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick. Let’s talk about what our dreams have to say about our creative writing life and our mental health.
My own subconscious has been poking at me — sometimes with vigor — for decades, always with the same stick: a recurring dream motif that I have come to call The Lost Apartment.
Listen as I go into detail about these recurring dreams, what they see...
Science fiction and fantasy author Anthony W. Eichenlaub joins me in an in-depth discussion on the writing craft and writing life in Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick episode 081.
Anthony W. Eichenlaub is the author of a wide range of science fiction and fantasy. His novels are a hodgepodge of cyberpunk westerns, space opera, and technothrillers. His short stories have appeared in numerous publications, including Daily Science ...
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