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Expert Profile: Richard Seltzer

Expertise:  I prefer questions that directly relate to my current areas of interest: historical works and historical fiction dealing with Russia and Ethiopia around 1900.

Experience in the area
Author of fiction:
The Name of Hero, historical novel (Tarcher/Houghton Mifflin)
The Lizard of Oz, fantasy (B&R Samizdat)
Also nonfiction:
The AltaVista Search Revolution (Osborne/McGraw-Hill)
Shop Online the Lazy Way (Macillan)

Publications
See my Web site http://www.samizdat.com/readers.html
for complete novels and short stories by me, as well as resources for
writers.

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Total Questions
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User Comments
Wow - thank you, Richard! Great ideas!
(Stephen on 07/18/07)
Thanks. A great answer.
(tom on 04/13/04)
Thanks for the advice, I will try as you suggested first!
(Shawn M. on 03/10/04)
Thanks for the reply. Your responce was very clear and to the point. I am going to check out the examples you gave. You've been a great help.
(Shawn M. on 02/20/04)
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Recent Answers from Richard Seltzer
2008-02-13  Victorian Dialogue It so happens that I publish collections of public domain books on CD and DVD. In particular you would benefit from my British Literature collection, three CDs, with the full text of over 3000 books,...
2006-12-01  2 Q's on research I primarily use the Web. Do Google searches. Go to Wikipedia. For many subjects (but not nobility in Romania/Hungary in the 18th century) the books I publish on CD and DVD are very useful. You might...
2006-12-01  2 Q's on research The answer depends entirely on your personality. Some people spend their whole lives researching a book (and then never get around to writing it). Others dive in prematurely. I suggest starting with...
2005-07-18  writing books on palaces,castle and manors, with emphasis on thier architectural elements First, read Mortal Lessons by Richard Selzer (he's a retired surgeon; he spells "selzer" without a "t"). That's a series of articles about parts of the body. He writes so well that his essay on dull...
2004-09-18  That is not a question. In writing a story or novel, you should go through the following steps (or their equivalent): 1) write brief notes about the the mythic/historic context -- make explicit important elements about everyday...
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