Tag: fun


  • Querying Nutshell

    A picture is worth a thousand queries:

  • I finished my rewrite, began PRINCE OF CATS (which is going awesomely–beyond awesomely really, I’m flying), and the summer crush is over. Obviously you can tell that because I’m blogging, thus my hours are not filled with making content to educate the next generation of politicians who will hopefully ben an improvement over our current…

  • We have a tradition here in the Selby household. My wife’s birthday is a month and a half before mine and our anniversary is in between. We make a birthaversary event out of it. For each of our birthdays, we choose a place we want to eat and an adventure we want to go on.…

  • A New Game

    My wife created a new game last night, one I found to be fun and a great exercise in creativity. (Of course, the pressure of making her laugh mounted as the game went on). It’s simple. One person names an animal or fish. The other person chooses what activity that animal likes best to participate…

  • Ted Cross (of Ted Cross fame) passed along a blog award called the BLOG OF DOOM!!!! While normally I shy away from blog awards, this one is full of DOOM! How could I pass that up? The Rules: 1. When you receive the Blog Award of DOOM your task is to post a short selection…

  • I never truly appreciated Jim Davis’ genius until I read Garfield Minus Garfield where another (much smarter) artist removed Garfield from his own comic and revealed Jon Arbuckle to be the wholly psychotic person that he is. Following in that line, some other genius has taken classic Peanuts frames and replaced the text with actual…

  • Necessary backstory: Every Monday in Nashua is a board-game Meet Up. This is how I met most of my friends when I moved to New England. I showed up thinking it would be three nerds playing Ticket to Ride and it turned out to be twenty awesome people (many of them nerds–like me) playing Ticket…

  • From @ebooknewser by way of Livia Blackburne, Borders gets the last laugh:

  • Big 5-0

    Elizabeth Poole has passed 50 followers on her blog, leaving us little 15 subscriber folks in the dust! In celebration of this milestone, she has called for a blog fest! Take your older writing and post it to show what kind of writers we used to be! Now I’ve lost a lot of my older…

  • This is a query I submitted1 to one (and only one) agency for my first novel, BLACK MAGIC AND BARBECUE SAUCE. I repost it here as a lesson for you all. How not to get an agent: Attention humans I am Cyrus the Conqueror. I am not Mr. Whiskers. I am not Kitty the Conqueror.…