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Michael Guillebeau's book MAD LIBRARIAN won the 2017 Foreword Reviews Indie for Humor Book of the Year. He has published seven novels and two anthologies and over thirty-five short stories, including three in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. ...more

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Michael Guillebeau Celebrate writing crap. All good writing starts as crap. If you can't accept that writing crap is something good, you'll spend your writing life sitti…moreCelebrate writing crap. All good writing starts as crap. If you can't accept that writing crap is something good, you'll spend your writing life sitting at a computer waiting for a sentence that's good enough to appear (hint: it never, ever will).

Write crap every day. Believe it or not, this is very, very hard to do. Anytime I get a good review, it is hard to write the next day for fear that I won't live up to expectations. But the advice on those hard days is the same for the good days: Write crap every day.(less)
Michael Guillebeau I'm tempted to say it's having a job where I can drink in the morning, but the appeal for me is the characters. Sometimes you're working along, follow…moreI'm tempted to say it's having a job where I can drink in the morning, but the appeal for me is the characters. Sometimes you're working along, following the outline and telling the characters what to say, and they come alive and write themselves and all you can do is type as fast as you can to keep up. The most important character in my JOSH book (Marci) and in STUDY (Rue) were minor characters who took over the book. Having characters like that drop from the sky into your world is like love at first sight.(less)
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“Carl Sagan said we are all made of stardust.

She was made of book dust.”
Michael Guillebeau, MAD Librarian

“Serenity took a sip of her rum. "You have a soul?"

"Yeah. Tattooed on my ass. Want to see?”
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“She took a deep breath and inhaled as much of the dust of paper and ink as she could and wished she could disappear into the two-dimensional world forever.”
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