Author | Joseph L. Selby

Tag: WITH A CROOKED CROWN

  • A Triumphant Return

    So here I am. 🙂 The busy season has passed. At least until it arrives again (which for me will be January). This year (in my new department) hasn’t been even half as bad as the two previous where I was expected to work 14-hour days with weekends and basically go balls to the wall…

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  • Turning it down from 11

    Sorry I haven’t been posting much lately. You know how they always say publishing is slow during the summer? Yeah, not so much if you work in production. I am currently the busiest I’ll be all year (most likely) and while I’m not as crushed as I was in my old department, I am merrily…

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  • Why Oh Why? Oh Me. Oh My! (…times seven)

    It’s hard to keep track of topics when you’re on a variety of soap boxes. I’ve written in two different live journals, hosted a podcast, and now how this blog/journal. Sometimes you think you’ve written about a topic when you haven’t. Or, you think you’ve written about it in one place when really it was…

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  • Do I Still Count?

    When was the last time I wrote something original? I’m trying to remember and quite frankly, I can’t. I edited the TRIAD SOCIETY then I revised JEHOVAH’S HITLIST then I started rewriting WANTED: CHOSEN ONE and now I’m doing yet another pass on JEHOVAH’S HITLIST. Somewhere in there I wrote six chapters of THE 7TH…

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  • Rewriting is HARD!

    I revise. I rarely rewrite. In fact, the only thing I’ve tried to rewrite is 7TH SACRIFICE and I scrapped the entire incomplete manuscript, so that should almost be called writing, as there isn’t much “re” involved. Coming on a year ago, I finished the manuscript for WANTED: CHOSEN ONE, NOW HIRING. I got feedback…

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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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  • 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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  • Wind Sprints

    I wrote the first draft of THE TRIAD SOCIETY. I didn’t like it. It wasn’t bad necessarily. It just wasn’t the story I set out to write. The story I had planned was this huge intricate intrigue that spanned the politics of the university, the city, the kingdom! And in the end, a meeting made…

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  • 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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  • 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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