Richard Seltzer

Author of two dozen books, Richard has been writing stories for 70 years. He's been editor, novelist, Russian translator, parttime spy, Internet evangelist, and ebook entrepreneur. He's published children's fantasies, historical novels, and pioneering books about how to do business on the Internet. Now he's ancestor surfacing — discovering that he's descended from Eleanor of Aquitaine; kings of England, Scotland, and France; princes of Kiev; Byzantine emperors; Atilla the Hun; and Charlemagne; and finding out that you probably are as well. We're all one family. He wrote about that in One Family

Four of his recent books are set during the Trojan War: Let the Women Have Their Say, We First Met in Ithaca or Was It Eden? Trojan Tales, and Breeze. Five 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.

Richard 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.

His personal web site typically gets 50k-100K page views per month. He has accounts at Blue Sky, Twitter, and Goodreads. He has posted early 700 stories, essays, and poems at Medium You can see videos of him reading some of his stories and excerpts from his novels on Youtube.