Author | Joseph L. Selby

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  • Captain Majors and the Super Squad: Soldiers of Tomorrow!

    So I don’t know where this idea came from. It hit me while I was driving home from work. It’s incomplete, though. Still, it’s worth writing down so that I can work on it later if the mood takes me. The interesting thing is that it’s not a fantasy book. I don’t get the sense…

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  • Holy Balls!

    I have been pondering it for months and I finally made a decision. An agent gave me feedback on WANTED: CHOSEN ONE, NOW HIRING. He wanted Bastin to be the main character rather than Nashau. I’ve discussed that here before. Bastin is clearly the most likable, charismatic of the group, but the story was Nashau’s…

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  • Cheating at Dreaming

    Monday night I dreamed that I was selected for the first New Hampshire HUNGER GAMES. This was not an event to celebrate Suzanne Collins’ popular YA trilogy. This was a handful of people being send into the wilderness of New Hampshire to fight to the death until only one remained. There were some differences between…

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  • Rejection

    We only went into a day of injury time before the game came to an end. Our beloved hometown heroes have lost this one in a buzzer beater. While it’s easy to feel torn up and brought down by rejection, you do that shit in the privacy of your own home, not on the internet.…

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  • The Waiting Game

    So you’ve written your novel, you’ve revised it, you’ve received feedback, you’ve revised it again, you’ve written a query, you’ve revised it, you’ve received feedback, you’ve revised it again, you’ve queried, you’ve paced madly worrying about rejection, you’ve been asked for a partial manuscript, you’ve revised the partial in fear of it not being good…

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  • Arcadia

    When I was a young lad, only twelve, and had decided in earnest that I was going to be a novelist, I began tap tap tapping away on my Apple IIGS (Appleworks, baby!). There were a number of ideas bumping around in my head. I wrote stuff for Jim Henson’s Storyteller (which in no way…

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  • Measuring Progress

    On my website, I have a page named the Queue where I list all the ideas I plan on pursuing to completion. This includes novels, short stories, plays, etc. My current wip will have a general word count (I don’t update it every day) and those works I’ve finished will be struck through with a…

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  • Knowledge = (the battle)/2

    I was watching a movie the other day and character A says of character B that he is a marksman. He can strike a man square in the chest at 50 meters. This was a modern piece with modern weaponry. There are different levels of writing what you know. The soul of some things can…

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  • The Rhythm of My H–Fingers

    I wrote today. By itself this is not a big deal. I write a minimum of five days a week. Near the end of JH, I was writing seven days a week1. But I had a powerful flu that caused me to do not much of anything but sit on the couch under a blanket…

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  • At the End of All Things

    More and more often, one of the arguments against ebooks I’m hearing is: When society collapses and there is no more power to charge the ebook or run the servers or what have you, I’ll be happy with my paper books. It’s a hyperbolic example, but not for the reasons I think they’re intending. I…

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