Stop cowering and wipe the blood out of your eyes, people, this isn't Matt Wallace you're reading right now. This is that other Matt, the smaller-in-stature Matthew Wayne Selznick coming at you right now. Where's Matt Wallace? Hell, how am I supposed to know? Just look and see where the light of the sun is blocked out by his crushing bulk, and you'll probably find him... but of course it will be too late for you. Not my problem right now; not why I've taken over his blog.
So what am I doing here, and who am I, anyway?
Let's hit those in reverse order.
My name is
Matthew Wayne Selznick, and I've taken over the Next Fix blog for precisely one blog post. I'm the author of
"Brave Men Run -- A Novel of the Sovereign Era."Some of you may be familiar with the book -- it was a 2006 Parsec Award nominee and is one of the top ten most popular books of all time at
Podiobooks.com... and it's been picked up for publication!
On Sunday, July 13, 2008, "Brave Men Run" will be released in a brand new paperback edition from
Swarm Press.
On Sunday, July 13, I'm asking everyone interested in owning a paperback copy of "Brave Men Run" to please purchase it from Amazon.com
on that day. The more folks who make their purchase(s) on that day, the higher "Brave Men Run" will rank on Amazon.com's bestseller charts. I'm shooting for the moon, here, folks, and I'll take Mars if I can get it. A high ranking on Amazon.com's bestseller chart means a ton of positive attention for "Brave Men Run," for Swarm Press, and on the power of the audience (that's you) to influence the market.
On that day, I'll be with you from 10 AM - 6 PM Eastern Time via
live streaming video, every hour on the hour. I'll give you updates on the sales success of "Brave Men Run," chat with you in the embedded chat room... and present some brand new, very special, Sovereign Era content.
What have I done with the gignormous and talented Matt Wallace? Well, see, that's what I'm here to talk about! I managed to subdue the raging beast just long enough for him to participate in a very special project.
You see, that "special content" is seven
brand new short stories set in the first year of the Sovereign Era universe -- the setting of "Brave Men Run," where people with remarkable abilities reveal themselves and change the course of human destiny. Some of the hottest names in podcast fiction have contributed stories:
J.C. Hutchins (The "7th Son" trilogy)
Mur Lafferty ("Playing For Keeps")
Nathan Lowell (The "Golden Age of the Solar Clipper" novels)
J.R. Blackwell (
365 Tomorrows)
P.G. Holyfield ("Murder at Avedon Hill")
Jared Axelrod (
The Voice of Free Planet X)
and...
Matt Wallace, with whom you are acquainted.
I'll be reading these stories, one per hour, live and on the air, for the first time anywhere on July 13, 2008. It's my way of giving a little something back to everyone who commits to buying a copy (copies?) of "Brave Men Run" on that day. You're going to make a commitment; I want to be there with you.
I'm very, very pleased that Matt had one limb left that wasn't already writing something (his left foot, I believe) to craft a Sovereign Era story, and I can't wait to share it with all of you. Visit
http://www.bravemenrun.com or
http://www.mattselznick.com to learn more...
and I'll see you on July 13, 2008 at 10 AM Eastern / 7 AM Pacific Time!
Oh, and keep your guard up... Wallace might be back here any minute. Don't get soft.