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Paul Semel

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Covers:  Video Games, Books, Music, Movies, TV, Home Video
Doesn't Cover: Sports, Politics
Freelance writer for hire: music, movies, books, comics, video games, TV… (he/him)

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Paul Semel’s Biography

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Paul Semel has been writing about music, movies, books, video games, and other fun things for over thirty-five years. During that time, he's worked for, or regularly contributed to, a wide variety of publications, including (but not limited to) Entertainment Weekly, TV Guide, Maxim, FHM, Bikini, Ray Gun, Common Sense Media, Incite Video Gaming, X-Play/G4, Electronic Gaming Monthly, Premiere, Creem, rollingstone.com, Playboy.com, and even, on one odd occasion, the American Bar Association's webs…

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"The Memory Of The Ogisi" Author Moses Ose Utomi ... .

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In many trilogies, the second book picks up right where the first one ends, and the third book does the same for the second. But in Moses Ose Utomi’s epic fantasy trilogy The Forever Desert, he puts hundreds of years between the first book, The Lies Of The Ajungo, and the second, The Truth Of The Aleke, and hundreds more between Ajungo and the third, The Memory Of The Ogisi (hardcover, Kindle).
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"Monsters And Other Tales Of Humanity" Author Carla E. Dash ... .

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We all know you’re not supposed to judge a book by its cover. But what about its title? Take the title of Carla E. Dash’s short story collection, Monsters And Other Tales Of Humanity (paperback, Kindle). Clearly it’s a collection of upbeat stories about the goodness of humanity by someone who’s happy, bubbly, and popular.
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"Infinite Archive" Author Mur Lafferty ... .

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We’ve all heard stories where someone complains that they don’t go looking for trouble, trouble just finds them. Which is not just something people says in the fictional universe of Mur Lafferty’s science fiction mystery series, The Midsolar Murders. It’s something that actually happens to a woman named Mallory, who starts the series by running away to a space station in hopes of ending the specter of death that follows her.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Though unpaid freelance gigs preceded it, my first paying gig was as an editor for "The New Review Of Records."

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes, in junior high. Or maybe grade school. I can't remember.

How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?

Via email please.

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