Richard Seltzer

Richard lives in Milford, CT, where he writes fiction full-time. He worked for DEC, the minicomputer company, as writer and Internet Evangelist. He graduated from Yale, with a major in English, went to Yale grad school in Comparative Literature, and earned an MA in Comparative Literature from the U. of Mass. at Amherst. At Yale, he had creative writing courses with Robert Penn Warren and Joseph Heller. Five of his recently published novels (Parallel Lives, Beyond the Fourth Door, Nevermind, Shakespeare's Twin Sister, and To Gether Tales) overlap and echo in interesting ways, with stories inside stories and touches of magical realism. This is not by intent, but rather that all of them grew from his life experiences and from exploring themes that matter to him. Two more novels of his that All Things That Matter will be publishing soon (Breeze and to Gether Tales) are of the same ilk. These novels can be read in any order. They are independent stories, with stylistic and thematic overlaps. Each creates a different view of reality, a different way of trying to understand the mysteries of life. He has written a total of two dozen books, including: Why Knot? (essays), Grandfather Jokes (humor), The Name of Hero (historical novel), Ethiopia Through Russian Eyes (translation from Russian), The Lizard of Oz (satiric fantasy), Now and Then and Other Tales from Ome (children's stories), Saint Smith and Other Stories, the novels The Attic (with Ethel Kaiden), Breeze, To Gether Tales, a collection of essays Lenses, a book of word play jokes ASAP's Foibles, and a collection of poems Dark Woods, in addition to pioneering books about Internet business. Complete list at seltzerbooks.com/seltzer.html His personal web site seltzerbooks.com typically gets 50k-100K page views per month. His Twitter account with 13K followers is @seltzerbooks His Goodreads author page is goodreads.com/richardseltzer His Amazon author page is https://www.amazon.com/Richard-Seltzer/e/B000APBTAA You can see videos of him reading some of his stories and excerpts from his novels on Youtube at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLijQxz1ah2H2slnJM9wxmhbnlQNMEfH30