Matthew Wayne Selznick is a podcasting pioneer. His “Brave Men Run” thriller was the first novel released simultaneously in paperback, free audio podcast and five — yes, five — e-book formats. All DRM-free.

And on July 13, a brand-new paperback edition of “Brave Men Run” — which is about the “Sovereign Era,” when people with super physical and psychic powers suddenly appear — will be released by Swarm Press.

Selznick will celebrate with a day-long streaming video “web-a-thon” — with hourly updates and special book-related content — to help propel the book to the top of the Amazon.com charts.

We always like to see podcast authors do well in print (see Scott Sigler), so we’ll be tuning in and plunking down to buy the paperback.

Check Matt’s site for more info.

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Catch an interview with podcast novel pioneer — and now hot-selling print author — Scott Sigler on the SciFiDimensions podcast.

If you haven’t heard Sigler’s work before, head over to his site ScottSigler.com and sample his audio podcast.  My fave is his “Infected” podcast novel, which has since found a print publisher and become a bestseller.

Some good news for fans of Sigler’s podcasts: Even with the print success of “Infected,” he will keep distributing his fiction for free via his podcast … which only makes sense, since “Infected” was a big hit as an audio podcast before publisher Crown scooped him up.

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If you like your hardboiled fiction with an in-your-face, profanity-studded style, you should check out the ThugLit site run by editor (and writer) Todd “Big Daddy Thug” Robinson.

Issue # 25, which leads the site now, kicks off with “Faith-Based Initiative,” a story about a wronged priest and some Salvadorans looking for payback in scenic Asbury Park, N.J. (the blighted former tourist attraction, now famous for Bruce Springsteen, the Stone Pony music club and its crumbling ocean-front boardwalk.)

And the intensity ramps up from there with stories featuring assorted low-lifes, cons and, well, thugs, all told with an over-the-top style and unhealthy helpings of sex and violence.

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Attention So-Cal sci-fi fans: Ray Bradbury, author of the classic “The Martian Chronicles,” is slated to speak about his vision of the future on Saturday, May 17 during an appearance at “Chronicling Mars”/The 2008 Eaton Science Fiction Conference at the University of California, Riverside.

“What I’m going to talk about is going back to the moon,” Bradbury, 87, told The Press-Enterprise. “We should not have left the moon 30 years ago. We should have stayed there and built a base. And in the next few years, we need to build a base.”

Bradbury’s appearance (4 p.m. PT) is one of the free events at the conference. Check out this news story and the conference Web site for more info.

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Editor’s note: We’ve invited our authors to blog on Well Told Tales. Jennie Kermode wrote WTT 19: “Type A” which ran November, 2007.

This is my first attempt at blogging for Well Told Tales - in fact, it’s my first attempt at blogging anywhere (!), though I’ve been involved in more traditional online forums - and newsgroups - for many a year. My publisher always tells me I have to keep up with the times, so I’m doing my best - please forgive me if I’m slow to catch on.

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