An excerpt from FALTER KINGDOM’s first half was published recently over at Luna Luna Magazine. Click here to check it out.
An excerpt from FALTER KINGDOM’s first half was published recently over at Luna Luna Magazine. Click here to check it out.
First time I’ve ever published poems and they’ve landed over at Public Pool. Click here to check them out.
J David Osborne and I chat for two hours on the JDO show. Topics discussed: I don’t remember.
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“Maybe Falter Kingdom isn’t YA, or maybe it’s a daring evolution into what YA could be.”
Ilana Masad reviewed my latest, FALTER KINGDOM, for The Rumpus.
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Joanna C. Valente interviewed me about important stuff like death and gender and GIFs for Luna Luna. Click here for the interview.
Falter Kingdom received a great review over at the YA/teen literature blog, TeenReads. Click here for the review.
In celebration of FALTER KINGDOM, I comprised not a music list but a YouTube video list for Largehearted Boy. Herzog, Cyanide & Happiness, pizza, owls, speedruns, we’re coping. Click here for the list.
Michael J. Seidlinger is not your typical YA author. Case in point: after unboxing the first copy of his new book Falter Kingdom, he set it on fire and lit a cigar with the flames. That and he writes fiction from midnight to 4 a.m., in between his three other literary jobs (publicity director at Dzanc Books, reviews editor at Electric Lit, and publisher-in-chief at CCM).
Falter Kingdom is the first-ever young adult novel from the Los Angeles-based independent publisher Unnamed Press. Bucking the YA trends of the past decade, Seidlinger’s seventh book does not feature a post-apocalyptic dystopia or a lovable protagonist. Instead, it’s about a lazy, misanthropic teen named Hunter who is obsessed with unboxing videos. And after exploring a mysterious tunnel in the woods on a dare, he’s possessed by a demon. I recently spoke with Seidlinger about how he finds time to write fiction and why he infused a young-adult novel…
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I wrote about how I went on a roadtrip to nowhere as part of the #7daysofcoping series over at Hypeable. Click here for the essay.