Author | Joseph L. Selby

Tag: TRIAD SOCIETY

  • I’d like a #3, super sized.

    LurkerWithout reads a billion books a month. This is why I value his feedback as a beta reader. He reads a book a day, so I consider him a measure of the purchasing public. He’s the target audience I’m aiming for, people who like to read fantasy. I have no delusions of being the author…

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  • Clipping

    Next time you’re listening to an audio medium (such as the radio or a podcast), listen to how the person speaks rather than just what they’re saying. Much like “he said” as a dialogue signifier, there are certain sounds that go along with actual words that our brain just ignores. The inhalation at the beginning…

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  • Fried Ocher

    I was talking to Elizabeth Poole yesterday who had been absent for a week because she thought she deserved to vacation in another state rather than hang out and talk to me over IM. Silly girl. Anyway, she asked me for an update on JEHOVAH’S HITLIST. I didn’t have much to report. I had invoked…

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  • Accept the Crapitude

    So, invoking rule 2a didn’t have an immediate impact. I chose to finished Bujold’s CRYOBURN1 before getting back to work for a few reasons which I may or may not enumerate below2. Anyway, this morning was technically a writing day, but I quickly realized that rule 2a was unnecessary. The writing was crap, but it…

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  • The Satisfaction of Success

    I am a success! What? Did I get an agent? No. Did I get an offer of publication from a major publishing house? No. Did I get a date with Rosario Dawson? No. Yet I am still a success. I have not accomplished any of the above professional goals (and if I never accomplish that…

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  • The Importance of a Name

    THE TRIAD SOCIETY is a pre-steam punk fantasy. What does that mean? That means steam technology is in its early advances. I don’t have airships or the like. I have steam-infused water and other similar “inventions!” Reliarach is the first kingdom on the Crescent Sea to develop such technology, the other six kingdoms being in…

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  • Trading at $1,365.00 an ounce

    A good beta reader is worth his or her weight in gold. As of closing October 13, 2010, gold traded at $1,365 an ounce. An ounce is equal to 1/16 of a pound. (2.2 pounds equals 1 kilogram for you metric folks.) Assuming Elizabeth Poole weighs about 110 pounds (when she’s soaking wet maybe), that…

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  • But this is what I do!

    I went to lunch across the street, diligently working on the revision of TTS (Otwald is about to meet Crown Princess Klara, which will require some serious scrubbing). The owner’s wife brings out my food and sees me tapping away on my laptop. “No more work,” she says. “It’s time to enjoy ourselves!” I smiled…

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  • Frenetic

    I have stopped revising so I can read BLUE FIRE. I haven’t opened my computer since Monday evening. This isn’t too bad because I should finish the book by tomorrow. It’s not a long-term delay or anything. And reading a good book is a great way to recharge one’s batteries. Keep the juices flowing and…

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  • REVISIOOOOON! REVISION.

    I love revision. My love for revision is inversely equivalent to my love for writing queries. When I get into a groove on revising, the words to “Tradition” from Fiddler on the Roof change to “Revision,” and I hear the chorus shouting it over and over in my head. I’m 1/3 of the way through…

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