Jule Selbo

NEW BOOK RELEASE!! The FOURTH (4th!!!) book in the Dee Rommel Mystery Series: 7 DAYS, A DEE ROMMEL MYSTERY is schedule for release March, 2025. The e-book is available for PRE-ORDER NOW! Reviews are coming in, here's one: “In 7 Days, Dee Rommel’s past comes back to haunt her when an eccentric purse thief is found dead, and Dee’s boss’s friend dies under suspicious circumstances. Thus begins an exquisitely multi-layered plot that comes together seamlessly to deliver a spinetingling and startling climax. If you’re missing Sue Grafton’s Alphabet series like I am, you’ll want to read Jule Selbo’s Dee Rommel books—they’re as comforting as they are exciting. I’m a big fan!”—Holly West, author of the Mistress of Fortune mysteries and the Anthony Award-winning editor of Killin’ Time in San Diego

And the good news is: The Dee Rommel Series has been chosen as a finalist for the CIBA Mystery Series Award, 2024.

Review of 8 DAYS (3rd in the series - we are counting downwards!)

"Jule Selbo delivers yet another superb book in the Dee Rommel series. Filled with complex and diverse characters, and with a hero unlike any other in crime fiction, 8 DAYS will have you turning the pages well into the night. Selbo handles taboo subjects with a deft, nimble touch, and delivers a final showdown that you won’t see coming. Impressive does not even begin to describe how good this novel is!" JOSEPH SOUZA, acclaimed author of Neighbor and Pray for the Girl.

LA TIMES BOOK REVIEW states: 8 Days is a fantastic, suspenseful thriller that fans of Lisa Jewell and Lisa Gardner will enjoy.

The second in the series, 9 DAYS, received a STARRED Kirkus Review: "A twisty, entertaining whodunit with sharp sleuthing and a lot of heart." (October 31, 2022) Paperback, hardback and ebook. 9 DAYS has been up for several awards and the review have been great. Example; Kristi Elizabeth, in the San Francisco Book Review wrote: “9 Days, Book Two of Jule Selbo's Dee Rommel Mystery series reads well as a stand-alone novel. Fast-paced with a fantastic, strong-willed, likable main character... a really well-written storyline….”

The first in the series 10 DAYS, A Dee Rommel Mystery garnered many kudos and awards: Starred Kirkus Review, Kirkus List of 2021's Top Five Mysteries, Foreword Review Finalist, Clue Award Nomination, Maine Literary Award Finalist, Honorable Mention (top 5) Foreword Independents and more. Here's one: “10 DAYS” is a complex, well-constructed mystery that hooked me on Day 1. Selbo’s characters, good and bad, are emotionally satisfying, well sketched out, and the pacing of the plot is spot on and full of surprises. Dive into “Ten Days” and enjoy the ride.” from John Lansing, bestselling author of The Devil’s Necktie

Jule Selbo grew up in Fargo North Dakota. She is a novelist, playwright, screenwriter and academic in film history. Her mystery/romance FIND ME IN FLORENCE (Pandamoon Publishing, Fall 2019), inspired by the art, beauty, romance and history of Florence Italy was written while working with students in Florence Italy and was award FIRST PLACE in the Chatelaine Awards for best women's fiction/romance. Her book BREAKING BARRIERS, based on the life of 18th century scientist Laura Bassi was released in April 2020 and is a finalist for the Goethe Award. Her historical fiction book, DREAMS OF DISCOVERY - BASED ON THE LIFE OF JOHN CABOT, was released Fall 2018 by Mentoris/Barbera Publishing. She is an award-winning American screenwriter and playwright with work in feature film, television and animation. She has worked with filmmakers and producers such as George Lucas, Michael Newell, Aaron Spelling, Roland Joffe as well as with all the major Hollywood studios; produced credits include projects for Disney, Columbia Pictures, Paramount, Universal.

She has also written for theater, with productions in New York and regional theaters around the United States).

As an academic, she has contributed to numerous journal with essays on the History of Screenwriters, her book (co-written/edited with Jill Nelmes) WOMEN SCREENWRITERS, AN INTERNATIONAL GUIDE delineates the rich past of female screenwriters from the 1890s to today. Jule was co-editor for eight years of the successful "Journal of Screenwriting" (Intellect Press) and has written extensively on film history, screenwriting and film genre. She holds writing seminars around the world and is a script consultant for production companies and writers in Hollywood. As a professor in the Cinema and TV Arts Department at California State University, Fullerton, she has written two books on Screenwriting Structure that include information on the business of screenwriting: SCREENPLAY: BUILDING STORY THROUGH CHARACTER (Routledge) and REWRITE: FIRST DRAFT TO MARKETPLACE (Gardner); her book is FILM GENRE FOR THE SCREENWRITER (Routledge) explores all the main film genres, their components and uses for film narratives. She has been an invited guest lecturer on film genre and screenwriting at New York University, Moscow's film school VGIK, Oxford Bridges University in Oxford, England, Bournemouth University in the UK, Disney Writers Program, Emerson College in Boston and other venues and is a member of Screenwriters Research Network. She has earned her Ph.D. with her work in Film Genre, its historical components and how a knowledge of film genre can be used by the screenwriter in the constructive stages of a screenplay.