Agents, if your clients have manuscripts that deserve to be published, but are gather dust because of today's tight market for fiction and poetry, please contact me at seltzer@samizdat.com Within the limitations of the disk space available to me, I'd like to help out -- linking avid, articulate readers with writers in search of an audience.
The Eyes of a Child, a short story by Michael Seltzer
Life, the complete text of a new novel by Michael Seltzer. Rianoc, a demon from Hell, wants to live, but he doesn't know what life is. With the aid of a tormented soul named Jennifer, he sets out on a quest to find Earth, and figure out what life is about. Satan and his fallen angels, who rule the work-a-day demons of Hell through ignorance, use all their powers to stop him. But when Rianoc escapes, and inadvertently opens a portal to Earth, they use that portal to invade Earth, and Heaven's armies rush to block them. With the help of Jennifer, Rianoc learns about life on Earth, while Heaven and Hell wage war for the second time. Feedback welcome. Also, please let us know if you know of an editor/publisher who might be interested in this work. seltzer@samizdat.com
Behind Locked Windows, a novel in three parts. Part One (a self-contained story) is posted here, together with chapter one of Part Two. If you'd like him to post the rest, and/or are interested in seeing his second novel (Life), please let us know. Feedback welcome. You can contact the author at: Michael Seltzer, 33 Gould St., West Roxbury, MA 02132. or seltzer@samizdat.com (He's an undergraduate at Northeastern University.)
Rex Sexton is a Surrealist painter represented by Gruen Gallery, Chicago, Illinois since 1986. His art has been televised on PBS, written about in newspapers, reproduced in magazines, and included in national and international exhibitions. They are a prominent part of numerous private and corporate collections. Throughout his career, the artist has also published an extensive body of Poe-like stories and poems. Desert Flower is a noir novel set in the Badlands of South Dakota. A hustler Indian and a roadhouse beauty (Desert Flower) team up for a drugs and money heist against local gangsters. Desert is as lethal as she is alluring. Greenleaf is an ex-con drifter who falls into her trap. The dark tale of their destiny is a journey through a nightmare.
Desert Flower excerpt from the beginning of a novel by Rex Sexton
I am Alive and I am Real , a short story by Rex Sexton
Surrealist paintings by Rex Sexton
Poetry by Diane Croft
Jimmy Fortune's Way a short story by Helen Estes Seltzer
Poetry by David Hodges
From Village Green (an epic poem about Plymouth, New Hampshire) by David Hodges
Art and children's books by Christin Couture
The House on the Hill and A Walk in the Woods, children's books written and illustrated by Christin Couture also (who illustrated The Lizard of Oz)
Humor by Kay Kelley
Grandma Minutia = cartoons and humor by Kay Kelley
Literary criticism by Laszlo Tikos
Gogol's Art: A Search for Identity by Laszlo Tikos (the full text of this authoritative analysis of Gogol's complete works.)
October 5, 2000 -- Patrick O'Leary, author of Door Number Three, The Gift, The Impossible Bird, and Other Voices, Other Doors.
September 21, 2000 guest = Michael Joyce (translator of Good Soldier Svejk) review of his book
September 7, 2000guest = Bob Zwick, talking about his eBookIt project and other ebook alternatives.www.cottagemicro.com/ebooks. Check The Lizard of Oz, for an example of an audio book made using eBookIt. To hear the narration, you need to use Microsoft Internet Explorer and you must have RealPlayer.
July 13, 2000 -- Punktown, with Jeffrey Thomas, author of "Punktown" a powerful collection of short stories that creatively pose age-old questions through bizarre and intriguing circumstances on another planet in the future. See review atwww.samizdat.com/isyn/punktown
June 22, 2000, June 29, 2000 guests: Jeff Edmunds, author of the novel Metro, and Jeff VanderMeer from the publisher, Ministry of Whimsy Press. The complete book is available online for free at www.mindspring.com/~toones/ministry.html). See review at www.samizdat.com/isyn/metro.html
May 18, 2000 guest: Jack Trout, author of Differentiate or Die You can see his profile at www.tenagra.com/ips/private/Wiley/differentiate/profile.html , an excerpt from the book at www.samizdat.com/diff.html, and a related article at www.samizdat.com/raging.html (edited transcript not yet avaliable)
May 11, 2000 Terry Pearce, co-author with David Pottruck of Clicks and Mortar: Passion Driven Growth in an Internet Driven World related article www.samizdat.com/startups.html
April 20, 2000 Greg Helmstetter and Pamela Metivier, authors of Affiliate Selling: Building Revenue on the Web. For details and an excerpt see www.samizdat.com/affil.html
February 3, 2000 Feb. 10, 2000 Christopher Locke, Rick Levine, and David Weinberger, authors of The Cluetrain Manifesto. For a review of this book see www.samizdat.com/clue.htmlrelated article www.samizdat.com/listen.html
December 2, 1999 Joseph Sinclair, author of eBay the Smart Way
Africa World Press/Red Sea Pressrecently published a print edition of this book which you can buy from Amazon.com.
Heresy on Mt. Athos: Conflict over the Name of God Among Russian Monks and Hierarchs, 1912-1914 by Tom Dykstra (complete book)
Letters from Princess
Mary Orbeliani (sister of Alexander Bulatovich) to Richard Seltzer
(author of The Name of Hero)
Transcripts of tape-recorded
conversations with Princess Mary Orbeliani, sister of Alexander Bulatovich,
June 3- 4, 1973
Chapter 2 Aunt Rachel and the Wizard of Oz
Chapter 3 Charlie's Coming of Age
Chapter 4 Recruited
Chapter 5 The Pictures from Charlie's Wedding
Chapter 6 Irene in Munich
Chapter 7 Irene at the Beach
Chapter 8 Sixtieth Anniversary
Chapter 9 Romance in Camelot
Chapter 10 Traffic Jam
Chapter 11 Ghosts
Chapter 12 Frank and Marge
Chapter 13 Giving Thanks
Chapter 14 Mistakes
Chapter 15 California Dream
Chapter 16 The Reverend Schumacher and Son
Chapter 17 Modelling for Charlie
Chapter 18 Rebirth
Chapter 19 Cabin Fever
Chapter 20 Dreams are Contagious
Chapter 21 With God
Chapter 22 Pair of Dice
Chapter 23 Voices from the Past
Chapter 24 Charlie's Daughter
Chapter 25 Camelot's Ghost
Chapter 26 Alarms
Chapter 27 Dream House in the Woods
Chapter 28 How to Build a Roof
Chapter 29 Time to Tell
Chapter 30 Sharing Sandcastles
The book is available on diskette from Amazon.com
This is a new, expanded version of the underground classic, originally published in 1974. This edition (which includes new episodes and changes throughout) is not available in print. You can buy the original print edition at Amazon.comYou can also buy the second edition (seen here) on diskette, together with the play version (see below) and other children's stories by Richard Seltzer from Amazon.com
Library Journal -- "An intriguing and very entertaining little novel"
Aspect -- "Carroll and Tolkien have a new companion"
Lancaster (PA) Independent Press -- "a work so saturated that the mind is both stoned with pleasure and alive with wonder"
Philadelphia Bulletin -- "A commentary on our times done delightfully"
Audio-book version of The Lizard of Oz(complete text, plus illustrations by Christin Couture and audio narration by the author). To hear the audio, you need to use Microsoft's Internet Explorer and must have the RealPlayer.
Text-only version of The Lizard of Oz:
"1101. K-12 (+) Seltzer, Richard, The Lizard of Oz. CAST: 6f, 14m, u. ACTS: 1. SETTINGS: Bare stage. PLAYING TIME: 50 min. PLOT: Two fish, in a fishbowl in a basement classroom, remark on the boredom of the students. One of the fish, Mr. Shermin, explains to the other, Mrs. O'Rourke, that the boredom is caused by the Humbug's tune, which can only be changed by tghe Lizard of Oz. One of the children Eugene, overhears the conversation and conspires with the fish to travel to Oz in a little green VW with several classmates. On the way, the car falls into a pothole, and encounters a witch who gives them directions. They meet the potheads, people with pots for heads, who help them with more water for the fishbowl. The witch reappears at various times, and the group meets Sir Real, who has a cereal bowl for a head; eggheads, including Humpty Dumpty; a wallflower; an empty-headed pothead with blue eyes (Mr New Man); Mr. Francis Bacon, the librarian; Mr. Charon, the ferryboatman/undertaker; Lewis Carroll; William Shakespeare; Mark Twain; and Plato and the Muses. Mrs. O'Rourke swims off and Mr. Shermin becomes a human teacher. The gang reaches Oz and a bevy of further odd characters and returns to the classroom, refreshed, and with a new teacher, Mr. Shermin. RECOMMENDATION: The adventures and the characters are out of Alice in Wonderland, but the overall effect is comic and interesting."
The full text of the play in HTML format is available here. You can get it in pdf, with the illustrations embedded here. You can buy this playscript from Amazon.com.
Boston Globe -- "A highly original collection of short stories -- sometimes humorous, sometimes profound."
Philadelphia Daily News -- "Seltzer has produced four charming stories for, he suggests, children around the age of nine. Adults will find the book has its appeal too: My favoite story is the one about the little princess who had a nice mother and was very happy and therefore very unhappy because how could Prince Charming come and rescue her if there was nothing to rescue her from?"
The complete book, including all illustrations
Separate files for each story, no illustrations (quick loading):
This play has not yet been been published in paper form. It will be produced for the first time by High Impact Theater at the Met Performing Arts Center in Spokane, Washington. They first found the play at this site. If you have any suggestions on how we could get this produced elsehwere, please let us know.
This play, together with other plays by Richard Seltzer, is available on a single diskette, which you can buy from Amazon.com
Making sense of the myths behind Greek tragedy, in particular the mythos of Pelops/Atreus/Agamemnon, article by Richard Seltzer
Both Burgoyne and Mercy Warren were playwrights. After the Revolution, Burgoyne wrote several "hit" plays for the London stage. In 1775, during the British occupation of Boston, he wrote The Blockade of Boston. Mercy replied with a play entitled The Blockheads.
These two historical figures are natural antagonists who should be made to meet on the stage.
(If you have any suggestions on how we could get this produced, please let us know.)
This play, together with other plays by Richard Seltzer, is available on a single diskette, which you can buy from Amazon.com
Home page for Mercy Otis Warren, conscience of the American Revolution
The action focuses on the strategic importance of the ferry crossing that would one day become Columbia; situated between Congress in York and the army in Valley Forge. The fates of the town-to-be and the nation-to-be are interwoven, with local historical figures playing significant roles in a plausible confrontation with Conway and Mifflin.
Conway, plotting to overthrow Washington, tries to seize the ferry. But he underestimates the determination and resourcefulness of old Susannah Wright, the owner of the ferry, and her nephew Sam, the future founder of the town of Columbia.
(If you have any suggestions on how we could get this produced, please let us know.)
This play, together with other plays by Richard Seltzer, is available on a single diskette, which you can buy from Amazon.com
Acrobat (.pdf) version of Spit an Polish, in standard movie-script format
Spit and Polish (AKA "The Barracks", AKA "The Summer of Our Discontent") has never been produced nor published. The setting is basictraining at Fort Polk, Louisiana, in the summer of 1970 ( just after the invasion of Cambodia and the Kent State shootings). The trainees are reservists, national guardsmen, and four black draftees who have been "recycled." The draftees want nothing to do with the war. They have been through basic before and deliberately failed in order to postpone being shipped to Viet Nam. For the others, basic is a brief, but painful interruption in their normal lives. So long as there is no major foul-up, they'll return to their school or job in a few weeks. But the disappearance of one of the blacks threatens them all.
(If you have any suggestions on how we could get this produced, please let us know.)
This play, together with other plays by Richard Seltzer, is available
on a single diskette, which you can buy from Amazon.com
An ordinary ride down a crowded superhighway becomes surreal when the drivers realize that htey have no control over their vehicles. (10 pp.)
Advice for shopping for books, music, and videos online
Recommended movie books: books about movies, writing for movies, and the film industry which I found useful.
Dialogue about the implications of epublishing and print on demand for authors and publishers
Let books grow -- implications of electronic books and print on demand
The Internet and books -- transformation of an industry
Further thoughts about the Internet and books
Many of today's "online publishers" are really just "online printers"
Alternative to ISBN for electronic books?
Advice for authors about electronic opportunities
Who owns what? (chapter 4 from The Social Web)
Suggested Tactics for Building an Electronic Library
An Author's View of Electronic Rights and the Public Domain
Susannah Wright, the wright stuff
The Name of Hero by Richard Seltzer. an historical novel based
on the life of Alexander Bulatovich, a Russian who was an explorer in Ethiopia,
and a cavalry officer during Russia's conquest of Manchuria in 1900. Later,
as a monk at Mount Athos, he led a group of "heretics" who challenged the
hierarchy of the Russian Orthodox Church, asserting the divinity of the
Name of God. Hard cover.
Everything
But the Internet gathers the complete non-Internet works
of Richard Seltzer on CD, in plain text, with software that lets you listen
as well as read. It includes: The Name of Hero, Ethiopia Through Russian
Eyes, The Lizard of Oz, Without a Myth, Spit and Polish, Mercy, Rights
Crossing, short stories, articles, book reviews, and poems.
Ethiopia
Through Russian Eyes by Alexander Bulatovich, translated by Richard Seltzer.
Unique and detailed first-hand account of Ethiopia in 1896-98 -- at the
change of an era -- by a Russian officer with remarkable understanding
for the many varied people who lived there and keen insight into their
destiny.
This site is Published by B&R Samizdat Express, 33 Gould St., West Roxbury, MA 02132. (617) 469-2269. seltzer@samizdat.com
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