Joseph L. Selby

Already browsed The Inkwell? Curious what other stories Joe has rattling around in his brain? Be sure to check out his journal and check back on this page from time to time to see what new projects have been added. Periodically, he also adds word counts for works-in-progress so you can see what's going on.

You may see all the stories below and wonder if they're all finished. Far from it. Most are seeds planted and left to sprout when the time is right. Unlike some people who do not select a title until the very end, Joe cannot write without a title, even if that title later changes. So all the ideas he's had that he thinks have merit enough to pursue later are given a title.

NOVELS
Black Magic and Barbecue Sauce Finished: 110,500 words
The House on Sandwich Notch Road (2,585 words)
Jehovah's Hitlist (2,174 words)
The Seventh Sacrifice (27,028 words)
Wanted: Chosen One, Now Hiring Finished: 149,111 words

The Reliarach Societies
The Triad Society (34,285 words)
The Red Sock Society
The Hook and Hammer Society

Books of the Third World
The First Triad
Cause and Conviction (40,554 words)
Sojourner
What Know You of Peace

The Second Triad
A Circle of Crimson Stone (37,531 words)
Stone House
The Well of Infidelity

The Third Triad
The Lost Legion (249 words)
Damini
Like Lions to the Slaughter

NOVELLAS
The Bureau: Clandestine Dealings of the U.S. Census Bureau
Life in Apartment B
Perpetuality

SHORT STORIES
"Black Magic and Barbecue Sauce" Finished: 13,931 words
"Decimation Agenda"
"Galileo Rocks the Baby" Finished: 5,045 words
"Global Warming in the Garden of Eden"
"My Name is Jay McKay" (819 words)
"The Sleeper"
"The Tragic Death of the Snark?"

Stories of the Third World
"Taking the Bastard Children" (157 words)
"The End of Bliss" Finished: 11,632 words
"The End of Nothing"
"The Stone House"