Matthew Wayne Selznick
@mattselznick.bsky.social
First wave podcaster (2004) and indie author (2005). I help bring new art into the world: mine and yours. Southern California. Far left. He / him. selznick.me/links
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BlueSky re-introduction: I'm an author, podcaster, and creator who makes most of my living helping other creators bring their works to fruition, to market, and to an audience. You can find my services, my creative works, and all other links on my profile.
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This episode was recorded on my mother's 90th birthday and inspired me to think about how to make sure we each build our creative legacy. The most important strategy is in the title! Anywhere you get your podcasts, including YouTube, or at the link. https://www.mattselznick.com/mwsc-009-324/
December 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM
This episode was recorded on my mother's 90th birthday and inspired me to think about how to make sure we each build our creative legacy. The most important strategy is in the title! Anywhere you get your podcasts, including YouTube, or at the link. https://www.mattselznick.com/mwsc-009-324/
Over the course of the last 15 years or so, in a variety of ways, I've helped bring 50+ books into the world, from author clients all over the world. I'm grateful to them all. See a carousel of covers at https://mattselznick.com/services. Are you next? #IndieAuthors
December 18, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Over the course of the last 15 years or so, in a variety of ways, I've helped bring 50+ books into the world, from author clients all over the world. I'm grateful to them all. See a carousel of covers at https://mattselznick.com/services. Are you next? #IndieAuthors
Testing Postiz integration with Bluesky, Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, and Threads.
December 17, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Testing Postiz integration with Bluesky, Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, and Threads.
Testing Postiz integration.
December 17, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Testing Postiz integration.
Just a few hours left to get 20% off anything (books, novels, non-fiction, different genres, in e-book, audiobook, and even limited-edition chapbook editions!) from my shop. Use the code mwsnewshopsocial1125; the link is on the links page on my profile! Ends when November ends!
November 30, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Just a few hours left to get 20% off anything (books, novels, non-fiction, different genres, in e-book, audiobook, and even limited-edition chapbook editions!) from my shop. Use the code mwsnewshopsocial1125; the link is on the links page on my profile! Ends when November ends!
With my completion of the custom paperback book interior layout and design, another author client project draws ever closer to completion. Their debut fiction collection will be out in time for the holidays! Who's next? How can I help YOU?
November 20, 2025 at 11:33 PM
With my completion of the custom paperback book interior layout and design, another author client project draws ever closer to completion. Their debut fiction collection will be out in time for the holidays! Who's next? How can I help YOU?
Help me celebrate the relaunch of my store with 20% off e-books, audiobooks, chapbooks, and software for a limited time! The code is on the links page on my profile. Fantasy, science fiction, literary, nonfiction on writing related topics, and more... probably something there you'll dig! #readers
November 18, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Help me celebrate the relaunch of my store with 20% off e-books, audiobooks, chapbooks, and software for a limited time! The code is on the links page on my profile. Fantasy, science fiction, literary, nonfiction on writing related topics, and more... probably something there you'll dig! #readers
I've released a very simple countdown application (with a point of view), and I go into the weeds on the tools used to make the new online store on my website --- in the latest Matthew Wayne Selznick Creates!
www.mattselznick.com/mwsc-008-323/
www.mattselznick.com/mwsc-008-323/
New Countdown App, New Online Shop - Matthew Wayne Selznick Creates
Author and creator Matthew Wayne Selznick introduces his new countdown app and announces the re-launch of his online store in the 8th episode of the podcast.
www.mattselznick.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:25 PM
I've released a very simple countdown application (with a point of view), and I go into the weeds on the tools used to make the new online store on my website --- in the latest Matthew Wayne Selznick Creates!
www.mattselznick.com/mwsc-008-323/
www.mattselznick.com/mwsc-008-323/
Here's this, for anyone who needs it now and then. Feel free to save it and make use of it when applicable. #YouNoGoodAtTroll
November 11, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Here's this, for anyone who needs it now and then. Feel free to save it and make use of it when applicable. #YouNoGoodAtTroll
@scottedelman.bsky.social your recounting of the Spider-Man album (it's on YouTube!) reminded me that about 25 years ago I wrote my own little tribute to Peter Parker, at least a very specific interpretation from a very specific time. It's called "Silver Age." 😁
music.youtube.com/watch?v=sPhm...
music.youtube.com/watch?v=sPhm...
Silver Age
YouTube video by Matthew Wayne Selznick / J. C. Hutchins - Topic
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October 25, 2025 at 7:32 PM
@scottedelman.bsky.social your recounting of the Spider-Man album (it's on YouTube!) reminded me that about 25 years ago I wrote my own little tribute to Peter Parker, at least a very specific interpretation from a very specific time. It's called "Silver Age." 😁
music.youtube.com/watch?v=sPhm...
music.youtube.com/watch?v=sPhm...
Podcasting is 21 years old. I've been a podcaster for 21 years, too. Interesting stuff happened in podcasting around that anniversary. I talk about it! Anywhere you get your podcasts, and on YouTube, or you can listen / view / read the show notes at the link:
www.mattselznick.com/mwsc-007-322/
www.mattselznick.com/mwsc-007-322/
Twenty-One Years of Podcasting - Matthew Wayne Selznick Creates
On the 7th Matthew Wayne Selznick Creates podcast, it's time to observe 21 years of podcasting with two farewells and an ill-conceived award.
www.mattselznick.com
October 24, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Podcasting is 21 years old. I've been a podcaster for 21 years, too. Interesting stuff happened in podcasting around that anniversary. I talk about it! Anywhere you get your podcasts, and on YouTube, or you can listen / view / read the show notes at the link:
www.mattselznick.com/mwsc-007-322/
www.mattselznick.com/mwsc-007-322/
Twenty-one years ago today, I released the first episode of the 41st podcast in existence. Since then, for myself but mostly for clients, I've helped bring a new podcast episode into the world every four and a half days, on average -- nearly 1,700 episodes. How can I help YOU?
#podcasting
#podcasting
October 15, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Twenty-one years ago today, I released the first episode of the 41st podcast in existence. Since then, for myself but mostly for clients, I've helped bring a new podcast episode into the world every four and a half days, on average -- nearly 1,700 episodes. How can I help YOU?
#podcasting
#podcasting
This. Every word of this.
theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art
theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art
A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal
This is a comic about AI art.
theoatmeal.com
October 7, 2025 at 7:33 PM
This. Every word of this.
theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art
theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art
Don't be the person who tries to get around character limits or hack SEO by stuffing the ALT tag with content not related to describing the image. You're fucking the visually impaired, and not doing yourself any SEO favors. That's not a growth strategy. Looking at you, @legalwanderer.com.
October 7, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Don't be the person who tries to get around character limits or hack SEO by stuffing the ALT tag with content not related to describing the image. You're fucking the visually impaired, and not doing yourself any SEO favors. That's not a growth strategy. Looking at you, @legalwanderer.com.
More and more, I find my reason for posting on LinkedIn is to call out bullshit and shenanigans when they pop up on my feed (as I interpret such, of course).
That practice is either going to guarantee I'm never hired again, or it will find me the most lucrative and ethically aligned gig of my life.
That practice is either going to guarantee I'm never hired again, or it will find me the most lucrative and ethically aligned gig of my life.
October 7, 2025 at 2:48 AM
More and more, I find my reason for posting on LinkedIn is to call out bullshit and shenanigans when they pop up on my feed (as I interpret such, of course).
That practice is either going to guarantee I'm never hired again, or it will find me the most lucrative and ethically aligned gig of my life.
That practice is either going to guarantee I'm never hired again, or it will find me the most lucrative and ethically aligned gig of my life.
Anthropic agreed to pay 1,000s of authors they pirated to train AI products a 1.5 BILLION-DOLLAR settlement. SO FILE A CLAIM IF YOU WERE WRONGED. Make those fuckers bleed every penny. Do it now before the window closes:
anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com
And hey, share this everywhere, yeah? Thanks.
anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com
And hey, share this everywhere, yeah? Thanks.
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anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com
October 3, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Anthropic agreed to pay 1,000s of authors they pirated to train AI products a 1.5 BILLION-DOLLAR settlement. SO FILE A CLAIM IF YOU WERE WRONGED. Make those fuckers bleed every penny. Do it now before the window closes:
anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com
And hey, share this everywhere, yeah? Thanks.
anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com
And hey, share this everywhere, yeah? Thanks.
Happy 75th anniversary of the debut of Peanuts, and the introduction -- in a walk on! -- of good ol' Charlie Brown. As Peppermint Patty would say a few years later, "You're all right, Chuck." And that goes x1,000,000 for you, Mr. Schultz.
October 2, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Happy 75th anniversary of the debut of Peanuts, and the introduction -- in a walk on! -- of good ol' Charlie Brown. As Peppermint Patty would say a few years later, "You're all right, Chuck." And that goes x1,000,000 for you, Mr. Schultz.
Authenticity is cool again, say the "content" gurus. I have things to say. If you're an author or bring any kind of creative endeavors into the world, you'll find my take useful. Watch on YouTube, listen anywhere you get your podcasts, or take it all in right here:
www.mattselznick.com/006-321/
www.mattselznick.com/006-321/
Authenticity is Cool Again! - Matthew Wayne Selznick Creates
On the 6th Matthew Wayne Selznick Creates podcast, we learn it's not only cool again to be ourselves online, it's great for writers and authors, too.
www.mattselznick.com
October 1, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Authenticity is cool again, say the "content" gurus. I have things to say. If you're an author or bring any kind of creative endeavors into the world, you'll find my take useful. Watch on YouTube, listen anywhere you get your podcasts, or take it all in right here:
www.mattselznick.com/006-321/
www.mattselznick.com/006-321/
Finally saw Fantastic Four: First Steps. That was damn fine... and the gratitude to Jack Kirby (FINALLY) actually brought a tear to my eye. Someone involved in this project was balancing some scales. Sure, the spaceship is a nod to Stan Lee, but the whole damn universe is named for Kirby. Bless 'em.
September 24, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Finally saw Fantastic Four: First Steps. That was damn fine... and the gratitude to Jack Kirby (FINALLY) actually brought a tear to my eye. Someone involved in this project was balancing some scales. Sure, the spaceship is a nod to Stan Lee, but the whole damn universe is named for Kirby. Bless 'em.
Had my second shingles vaccine, my flu shot, and a COVID booster today. BRING ON THE NIGHT SWEATS!!!!
September 23, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Had my second shingles vaccine, my flu shot, and a COVID booster today. BRING ON THE NIGHT SWEATS!!!!
When you earn your living as a mouthpiece for fascism, assume every penny is hazard pay.
September 10, 2025 at 8:59 PM
When you earn your living as a mouthpiece for fascism, assume every penny is hazard pay.
I have a ridiculous urge to create an IRC server with a members-only client on my website. You're thinking, "What about Discord?"
Why not NO frills and no social media megacorp?
Also, this temptation is a sure sign I have more important and difficult obligations to attend to. :-D
Why not NO frills and no social media megacorp?
Also, this temptation is a sure sign I have more important and difficult obligations to attend to. :-D
September 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I have a ridiculous urge to create an IRC server with a members-only client on my website. You're thinking, "What about Discord?"
Why not NO frills and no social media megacorp?
Also, this temptation is a sure sign I have more important and difficult obligations to attend to. :-D
Why not NO frills and no social media megacorp?
Also, this temptation is a sure sign I have more important and difficult obligations to attend to. :-D
Get the latest episode of my journal of my creative life, Matthew Wayne Selznick Creates! Free range creativity! Multiple origin stories! Cooking up a thing to help fiction writers organize their storyworlds! Anywhere you get your podcasts, on YouTube, or right here:
www.mattselznick.com/005-320/
www.mattselznick.com/005-320/
Free Range Creativity - Matthew Wayne Selznick Creates
In the fifth Matthew Wayne Selznick Creates podcast, the author / creator talks free-range creativity, multiple origins stories, and what he's been working on.
www.mattselznick.com
September 7, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Get the latest episode of my journal of my creative life, Matthew Wayne Selznick Creates! Free range creativity! Multiple origin stories! Cooking up a thing to help fiction writers organize their storyworlds! Anywhere you get your podcasts, on YouTube, or right here:
www.mattselznick.com/005-320/
www.mattselznick.com/005-320/
20 years ago today, I completed my first novel. It was published (the 1st novel released simultaneously in paperback, e-book, and free podcast editions) a bit later, and remains my most popular book. Since I've written two other novels that are each better, I have very mixed feelings about that...
September 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM
20 years ago today, I completed my first novel. It was published (the 1st novel released simultaneously in paperback, e-book, and free podcast editions) a bit later, and remains my most popular book. Since I've written two other novels that are each better, I have very mixed feelings about that...
It's been a while, but I once again read an article about how someone has "lost everything" and 3/4 of the way through there's mention of how they're hiring a few new employees for their company. See also, "I was flat broke, but I couldn't not afford to buy this $3000 course!" #getthefuckout
August 28, 2025 at 4:24 PM
It's been a while, but I once again read an article about how someone has "lost everything" and 3/4 of the way through there's mention of how they're hiring a few new employees for their company. See also, "I was flat broke, but I couldn't not afford to buy this $3000 course!" #getthefuckout