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Selina j

@ofselina.com

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Author of SAND OF GOLD (as Bree Tandy) & BINGO CUSTARD : A CLITTY TELLER ADVENTURE Owner of a dysfunctional website & brain 🧚🏻🌙⚒️ www.ofselina.com

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Selina j @ofselina.com · Nov 12

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Selina j @ofselina.com · 2d

I maybe 3 episodes down already

Maybe

Selina j @ofselina.com · 2d

Hey @hackintimseeley.bsky.social

Guess what?

REVIVAL is on UK TV

I repeat REVIVAL is on UK TV

Very exciting

I might watch it

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Selina j @ofselina.com · 12d

So I had this really long and boring Teams meeting which I should have been paying attention to but instead I made this promo

Nothing like what the book is going to be like

But anyway… sound on

Selina j @ofselina.com · 15d

No I just hugely underestimated this pass

Selina j @ofselina.com · 16d

“Only a light polish is needed for this story before I release it”*

*spends a day totally rewriting a fight scene

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Selina j @ofselina.com · 17d

It will hopefully be released soon

Selina j @ofselina.com · 17d

Mistakes was made when I wrote BINGO CUSTARD

I think, on reflection, I got the balance just a tad wrong

With LIVE LOVE LAUGH DIE! I think I have the balance just where it needs to be

Selina j @ofselina.com · 24d

A weathered, vintage-style poster is prominently displayed, its edges slightly frayed and surface dampened as if exposed to rain. The poster advertises an event at the Winter Gardens in Margate, featuring a performance by "Clitty Teller," billed as "Britain's Fabulous Spy Star." The text indicates the show will occur on Friday, October 3rd, with two nightly showtimes at 6:30 PM and 8:45 PM. Presented by "Selina j," the event promises "Mysterious Illusions of The Magician." The poster is riddled with several jagged bullet holes, adding a dramatic, action-packed aesthetic, while contact details for the Entertainment Manager, Peterson Leigh (telephone: 2375148), are listed at the top. The overall tone suggests a blend of espionage thriller and magical spectacle

Selina j @ofselina.com · 26d

If you read BINGO CUSTARD and fell in love with Clitty Teller then with LIVE LOVE LAUGH DIE! you will love her even more and want to marry her

Selina j @ofselina.com · 27d

I had 3 rules when writing Clitty Teller

It had to be ridiculously British

It’s a pastiche and not a parody of Bond & 1960s pulp spy novels

Clitty is not the idealised competent woman in a male dominated genre

She instead represents a real woman stuck inside the genre

Selina j @ofselina.com · 27d

2 down. Fuck loads to go

Selina j @ofselina.com · 27d

It’s taken longer than I have anticipated but structurally LIVE LOVE LAUGH DIE! is now sound

It’s been such a fun story to write

Got to polish it up and then maybe I’ll let you read it

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Selina j @ofselina.com · Aug 28

Working on v6 of Live Love Laugh Die has led me to want to do a very mini reboot of the Clitty Teller Universe

Nothing major but if you did pick up a paperback version of Bingo Custard it will soon become a limited edition

Which of course sounds cooler than it actually is

Selina j @ofselina.com · Aug 28

Been so busy writing I am so far behind my comic book reading I still think it’s 2023

Anyway - this looks fantastic and going on my pile of comics
I will reward myself with reading

The Kovacs Report @kovacsreport.bsky.social · Aug 28

Red Vector #1 Review - A New Space Opera for Star Wars Fans
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Red Vector #1 Review - A New Space Opera for Star Wars Fans

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Selina j @ofselina.com · Aug 28

The problem is the noise it’s creating

As an Indie writer it was hard work to be seen and now with AI written books there is an extra layer of noise you have to get through

It can just be exhausting

Selina j @ofselina.com · Aug 22

I kinda do now

Selina j @ofselina.com · Aug 22

My Writing Process

1st draft - bare bones
2nd draft - the meat
3rd draft - the sweet beautiful draft
4th - 24th draft - yeh I’m gonna keep on going till I get bored