The journal and sometimes blog of author, Joseph L. Selby.
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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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Can I Do This?
If you were lucky enough to be Liz Poole, a hotel night auditor named LurkerWithout, or an agent with incredible literary sense, you would have had the opportunity to read my manuscript JEHOVAH’S HITLIST. This is a manuscript where I explain why just because the protagonist is 15 years old doesn’t make it a young…
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Things I Like Other than Writing
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…
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Kimball Farm in Westford, MA
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.…
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Kindlegraph
I said it would be cool to add your signature to an ebook at a signing and three days later it’s real! It sure would be cool if I had a million dollars… … I’ll let you know what happens on Monday. As for the above, it’s a good first start but their invasion of…
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My Nemesis, Progress!
A bit of a note, I am still swamped at work though that should be clearing up at the beginning of August or thereabouts. Lots of nonsense going on right now, but I am well versed in Alice’s time in Wonderland and through the Looking Glass so nonsense is right up my alley. (Do not…
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F*cking Ponies!
I’m almost over the summer hump and will return to a normal blogging schedule after. Until then, behold this little piece of awesome:
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Weak Words: Just the Adverb, Ma’am
I had this post planned awhile ago but all I saved was the title. I vaguely remember what it was about, but it ties well into a discussion I am having with Liz Poole about feedback I received recently. First, here’s a general rule that I learned the hard way. If you are going to…
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Prince of Cats
Hello! Yes, I’m still alive, just super busy. Lots of work combined with home stress has been sucking up my hours. I’m still writing, because writing comes before blogging, but even that is slow going. I’m at the 1/3 mark and really I should be at the finished and ready to query mark. I need…
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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…