Author | Joseph L. Selby

Tag: art

  • It’s the little details

    I’ve said this before, and I’m sure I’ll say it again: To help your reader believe the fantastic, make sure they recognize the mundane. It’s an easy (lazy) hand-wave to excuse inconsistencies in fantasy by saying “this isn’t the real world” when so much of the book mirrors the real world. Rarely do we create…

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  • Collaboration!

    I will admit that I’m not a fan of collaboration. But I realized today that it’s not a matter of not being a fan of collaboration, it’s just that collaboration has never been presented to me in a fashion that I particularly cared for. But then I got linked to a video of Joseph Gordon-Levitt…

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  • August Wilson

    If your education was anything like mine, the only plays you were exposed to in high school were the Shakespeare you read in English class (Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, maybe King Leer or Macbeth) and whatever your school performed for the yearly musical (Guys and Dolls again?). Maybe around senior year you got yourself a…

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  • Cover Cover Cover

    I love me some covers. Until I have an actual published book to pimp in the Inkwell, I put up those books that I have finished a first draft on. But to be put up, they must have a cover. We will not have text about books that do not accompany covers! It’s not a…

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  • Ink Failure

    Up until 2006, you could look at me while at work and never know that I had a tattoo. Of course, at that time, I had eight tattoos. The only one that was ever visible was the one on the back of my neck and only then if I wore a shirt without a collar.…

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