Spencer Seidel's Blog

Sure, you read my last post on why self publishing fiction on Amazon is probably not a great idea, but you’re still convinced thatyour book will be different. You’ll be a smash success despite all …

In this post, I’m going to write a bit more about literary agents. While this not a comprehensive guide, hopefully you’ll walk away with a better idea of how an agent might help (or potentially …

In this post, I’m going to write a bit more about literary agents. While this not a comprehensive guide, hopefully you’ll walk away with a better idea of how an agent might help (or potentially …

Let me be the first to congratulate you. Completing a novel-length manuscript is a big deal. In many ways, it can be a life-changing event. I know sometimes it feels like everyone has written a …

Let me be the first to congratulate you. Completing a novel-length manuscript is a big deal. In many ways, it can be a life-changing event. I know sometimes it feels like everyone has written a …

A little over 10 years ago, I was reading a horror novel by an author whose name I won’t mention (no, it’s not that horror author, but someone very well known), and I thought: Jeez, …

I’ve had some good Lovesick activity lately, and I just wanted to let any new visitors here that your support for the book is greatly appreciated!

A couple of years ago, I had great fun visiting with and talking to book clubs about my books. If you are part of a book club and live anywhere on the East Coast between Washington, D.C. and Bangor, ME, chances are I’ll be happy to come and sit with your group to discuss my books.

So what if you live in Pittsburgh or L.A.? No sweat. We can use Google Hangouts or Skype and chat virtually.

If you’re interested, contact me on one of the few social-media sites I belong to (see the left sidebar) or...

And just one more. One day while cutting my lawn, I came upon a patch of some dubious (and very smelly) mushrooms that kept coming back no matter what I did to them . . . Yard Work is now available on Amazon.

The only thing left of Rose Lavelle was a pink shoe with a drop of blood on it. Bedminster, NJ detective Lou Bentley had always suspected her husband, Frank, but what was the motive?

Then, Bentley is called to the Lavelle place by an angry neighbor. Frank Lavelle has developed a bizaare ob...

Hal Grafton and reality are on shaky terms. He is half of the Tug the Bug Man Pest Control team. His other half, Franklin “Tug” Tuggle, is nowhere to be found. Worse, Hal has awakened in a mental institution with the hangover of his life. No memories survived his epic blackout–at least, not at first.

Slowly, Hal begins to piece together the terrifying events that brought him to Greywoods Hospital, but were they real?

And what about those bugs that seem to have followed him to the hospital?

Years...