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Most of his books (and many of his songs) take place in Cornersville Trace, a fictional suburb of Des Moines.<ref>http://sjadamsbooks.blogspot.com/p/cornersville-trace.html</ref>
Most of his books (and many of his songs) take place in Cornersville Trace, a fictional suburb of Des Moines.<ref>http://sjadamsbooks.blogspot.com/p/cornersville-trace.html</ref>


In addition to his book work, Adam works as a historian, tour guide and ghost investigator in Chicago. In 2009, his first adult nonfiction title with a major publisher, ''Your Neighborhood Gives Me the Creeps'', told stories of his life and work as a ghost tour guide and as a skeptic in the ghost-hunting field. He stepped down from his position with Weird Chicago Tours after the Halloween season in 2009.<ref>http://neighborhoodcreeps.blogspot.com/p/tours.html</ref> In 2011, he returned to tour guide work as a guide for [[Ursula Bielski]]'s Chicago Hauntings tour company.<ref>http://chicagohauntings.com/bio.html</ref>
In addition to his book work, Adam works as a historian, tour guide and ghost investigator in Chicago. In 2009, his first adult nonfiction title with a major publisher, ''Your Neighborhood Gives Me the Creeps'', told stories of his life and work as a ghost tour guide and as a skeptic in the ghost-hunting field. He stepped down from his position with Weird Chicago Tours after the Halloween season in 2009.<ref>http://neighborhoodcreeps.blogspot.com/p/tours.html</ref> In 2011, he returned to tour guide work for the Chicago Hauntings tour company.


==List of works==
==List of works==

Revision as of 19:05, 24 October 2012

Adam Selzer (born July 13, 1980, in Des Moines, Iowa) is an author, primarily of young adult and middle grade novels. His first novel was How To Get Suspended and Influence People, a 2007 Random House novel which was included on the Chicago Public Schools 2007 Summer Reading List.[1] It was also nominated for a Cybils 2007 Young Adult Fiction award,[2] and, in 2009, made national news after attempts were made to have it removed from an Idaho library;[3][4] it was included in the American Library Association's Banned Books Week packet in 2010.[5] It was followed in 2008 by a sequel, Pirates of the Retail Wasteland, , it was named a Book Sense Pick for summer, 2008. His Smart Aleck's Guide to American History (Random House 2009) was nominated for a YALSA award for nonfiction by the American Library Association in 2011,[6] and his novel for younger readers, I Put a Spell On You: From the Files of Chrissie Woodward, Spelling Bee Detective (which was based on Watergate) was nominated for a Great Lakes Book Award [7] and short-listed for an Edgar award nomination. It became a notable choice for classroom reading.[8] A 2009 short film he co-wrote, At Last, Okemah!', won awards at several festivals [9]

In 2009, Adam's editor at Random House asked him to write a book based on "I Thought She Was a Goth," a song he had written a decade earlier. The resulting book, I Kissed a Zombie and I Liked It was released in January 2010.[10] to acclaim from trade reviewers, who described it as "smart," "original," "hilarious," and "a scathing parody (of the paranormal romance genre)."[11] Film rights were optioned by Disney Channel Original Movies [12] A follow-up (to both that book and I Put a Spell On You) entitled Extraordinary* was released by Delacorte in 2011,[13] the same day as he published Sparks with Flux under the name SJ Adams.[14]

His first nonfiction book for Random House was The Smart Aleck's Guide to American History,[15] and was selected as a Junior Library Guild selection. Critics frequently compared the humor to that of The Daily Show and Mark Twain.[16][17]

Most of his books (and many of his songs) take place in Cornersville Trace, a fictional suburb of Des Moines.[18]

In addition to his book work, Adam works as a historian, tour guide and ghost investigator in Chicago. In 2009, his first adult nonfiction title with a major publisher, Your Neighborhood Gives Me the Creeps, told stories of his life and work as a ghost tour guide and as a skeptic in the ghost-hunting field. He stepped down from his position with Weird Chicago Tours after the Halloween season in 2009.[19] In 2011, he returned to tour guide work for the Chicago Hauntings tour company.

List of works

Novels

  • How to Get Suspended and Influence People, Delacorte Press, 2007 [ISBN 978-0-385-73369-4]
  • Pirates of the Retail Wasteland, Delacorte Press, 2008 [ISBN 978-0-385-73482-0]
  • I Put a Spell On You, Delacorte Press, 2008 [ISBN 978-0-385-90498-8]
  • "I Kissed a Zombie and I Liked It", Delacorte Press 2010 [ISBN 978-0-385-73503-2]
  • Andrew North Blows Up the World, Delacorte Press, 2009 [ISBN 978-0-375-89375-9]
  • "Extraordinary: The True Story of My Fairy Godparent, Who Almost Killed Me, and Certainly Never Made Me a Princess," Delacorte Press 2011 [ISBN 978-0385736497]
  • "Sparks", Flux 2011 (writing as S.J. Adams) [ISBN 0738726761]

Nonfiction

  • The Smart Aleck's Guide to American History, Delacorte Press 2009 [ISBN 978-0-385-73650-3]
  • Your Neighborhood Gives Me the Creeps: True Tales of an Accidental Ghost Hunter, Llewellyn Press, 2009 [ISBN 978-0-7387-1557-5]
  • Weird Chicago: The Book (with Troy Taylor (author) and Ken Melvoin-Berg), Whitechapel Press, 2008 [ISBN 978-1-892523-59-4]
  • Weird Chicago Presents: The Murder Castle of H.H. Holmes (mini ebook) (editor), Whitechapel Press, 2008[20]
  • "Fatal Drop: True Tales of the Chicago Gallows" White Chapel Press January, 2009 (under the name William Griffith)
  • "Bobcat Nation: Life among the Dylan Fans" A Goon Attack Press (ebook) October, 2004 [ASIN B004GKMP5I]

Screenplays

References

  1. ^ http://www.cps.k12.il.us/aboutcps/departments/libraries/pdf/2007_Summer_Reading_List.pdf
  2. ^ Cybils: 2007 Nominations Young Adult Fiction
  3. ^ http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/10/idaho_mom_protests_how_to_get.html
  4. ^ http://www.idahopress.com/news/?id=27201
  5. ^ http://www.ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/banned/bannedbooksweek/ideasandresources/free_downloads/2010banned.pdf
  6. ^ http://www.ala.org/yalsa/booklistsawards/bookawards/nonfiction/2011noms
  7. ^ http://www.annarbor.com/entertainment/books/great-lakes-book-awards/
  8. ^ [1]
  9. ^ http://www.atlastokemah.com
  10. ^ http://www.adamselzer.com
  11. ^ http://www.ikissedazombie.com
  12. ^ http://literaticat.blogspot.com/2010/05/more-zombiriffic-news-yay.html
  13. ^ http://www.randomhouse.com/highschool/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385736497
  14. ^ http://www.fluxnow.com/product.php?ean=9780738726762
  15. ^ http://www.smartalecksguide.com
  16. ^ http://www.smartalecksguide.com
  17. ^ http://jacksonville.com/news/metro/2010-03-21/story/wacky-us-history-book-will-make-trivia-lovers-chuckle
  18. ^ http://sjadamsbooks.blogspot.com/p/cornersville-trace.html
  19. ^ http://neighborhoodcreeps.blogspot.com/p/tours.html
  20. ^ Weird Chicago: H.H. Holmes Murder Castle Ebook!
  21. ^ [2]

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