FAQ
Commonly asked questions are answered here. If you can’t find your answer then you can always ask it using the contact form and we will get back to you as soon as possible.
How can I find out if Seth is doing any book signings or appearances near me?
Book signings and/or appearances are announced on Seth’s website and social media.
Who represents Seth? (How to hire Seth to run his mouth for my audience/ students/ mother-in-law?)
Michael Signorelli at Aevitas Creative Management:
https://www.aevitascreative.com/agent/michael-signorelli
https://www.aevitascreative.com/
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When did Seth first begin writing novels?
Seth began researching how to write a novel in 2021, wrote a “test novel” in 2022, and began researching Antique in 2023, completing the first draft that Fall. It was sold to Grand Central Publishing in May of 2024.
So, Seth did not attend a fiction training program?
Not necessarily. I have been training in the art of storytelling throughout my theatre and film careers, as well as in academia. I think there is great value in a challenging and supportive academic environment for writers, but this was the pathway that beckoned.
Why novels, then?
That was always my dream as a little boy. I’d always had an overactive imagination, and initially, it was acting that allowed me to harness it and focus it into something more useful than staring off into space every other minute. When I was thirteen, my mother gave me an old typewriter of hers, and I began typing out the kind of adventures I wished I could have, not to see it on the page, but to go there – at least in my mind. When I first changed majors to Theatre in my Junior year of college, I hoped it would assist my writing, more than anything else. Doors opened, I barged through them, and I woke up in 2021 realizing I had strayed pretty far off course from those first short stories on my mother’s typewriter (she saved them, incidentally, so I can still read them, and still wince). I had reached the point that I felt a shift coming, am opportunity to begin a brand-new chapter (or a very old one, I suppose). So, I don’t look at my novel writing as a new leaf, so much as finally getting back to a very old one.
How many drafts of a novel does Seth write?
I love to write, and I like to re-write, but I know most of the work happens after the first draft. I wrote three drafts of Antique before showing it to Michael, six further drafts before going to market, and three with Grand Central. The first draft, for me, is always where I feel most transported, but it tends to emerge with a good deal of flab, so much of the drafts are either sculpting what I have into something compelling, or just swinging a scimitar at the parts that don’t work.
Do writers have a responsibility to their readers?
I have had a legion of instructors over the years, from teachers to colleagues to students, who have taught me the true value of creativity – that we work in a service industry, we storytellers, on stage, on page, and we have a solemn responsibility to bring a measure of magic to the people who yield up a portion of their precious day to listen to what we have to say.