Martin Selle

Martin Selle (born September 25, 1966 in Linz ) is an Austrian writer.

Martin Selle, writer

biography

In addition to his school career, elementary school, secondary school, vocational high school, commercial academy with Matura, later Technical University of Vienna (academic real estate consultant), he learned the writing trade through technical schools in the USA, graduated from 9 leading academies for creative fiction writing.

Since 2000, Martin Selle has placed his literary focus on literature for children, youth and young adults from 7 to 17 years of age and on the practical teaching of the craft of writing. He orients his works and interactive readings on the contemporary reading wishes of these age groups. The aim is to offer multi-value through IQ books (exciting entertainment literature combined with everyday useful expert advice) and thus to produce self-motivated, meaningful readers. The IQ books are the result of 2 years of reading research, student interviews, technical discussions with educators and expert reports on reading today.

In 2007, Martin Selle won 1st place in the “ Book Favorite 2007” in the 10 to 14 year category with the crime series CodeName SAM . In 2008 he was awarded 3rd place. In 2000 and 2001 works were awarded the feather rabbit prize. His books are also translated into languages ​​such as Chinese, Vietnamese, Ukrainian. In 2018, Martin Selle was the subject of the master's thesis Authorship Concepts in the 21st Century at the Faculty of Linguistics and Literature at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich.

In addition to his work as a writer, Martin Selle motivates children and young people to read and write with interactive workshops (Tatort Desk) and readings (Das Krimi-Duell).

With Von Null Auf Autor (VNAA) , Martin Selle also teaches adults the craft of writing using the 7-phase VNAA method.

Martin Selle writes and lives in Wesenufer in Upper Austria.

Works (selection)

Instructions

• The 7 Steps to How Grisham, King and Co. Write Best Sellers - FREE E-Book on the VNAA Writing Method
• Strong texts - proofreading, language, style: the professionals' secrets to success (eBook)
• Methodically developing short stories (eBook)
• How To Create Immortal Figures (eBook)
• Tension, Tension, Tension (eBook)
• Writing strong dialogues (eBook)
• Writing the perfect beginnings of a novel (eBook)
• Story building made easy (eBook)

IQ thriller with specialist knowledge

• City of Masks - Venice, Tintoretto
• The Grail of the Death Monk - Tibet, Potala
• The zombie elixir - Haiti
• The Dragon Puzzle - China Shang Dynasty
• The Invisible of Notre-Dame - Paris
• In the sights of the killer basilisk - Vienna
• The Alien Experiment - Swabian Alb, Biosphere
• The Curse of the Ghost Pirates - Caribbean
• Deadly Secrets - Zurich, Henry Dunant
• The million pupil - Salzburg, Mozart
• The merciless one - Frankfurt Main
• X-TEAM 1: What happened at 9:07 p.m.? (Topic: History of the art of painting from antiquity to today - with Mag.Sabine Fürnkranz, art historian, Vienna)
• X-TEAM 2: What happened to Daniel Moody? (Topic: Healthy and fit - with Mag. Paulus Schwarzacher, ÖSV trainer, men's fitness and technique, Olympian, world championship participant)

thriller

• DARK NIGHT - Camp Baumkronenweg (with outdoor manual)
• The Truth About Derek Foster (with Survival Manual)

Fantasy '

• The magic quill (novel)

IQ crime thrillers with tutoring effect German

• The Shadow Man (Series: You Are The Commissioner)
• The Hooded Men (Series: You Are The Commissioner)
• The Masked Man (Series: You Are The Commissioner)

IQ books for children 7 to 8 years

• The incredible journey into the self (explorer & time travel adventure - discover the human body)
• Madagascar - island of special animals (explorer & time travel adventure - the endemic wildlife of Madagascar)
• Mr. Bogomil & Mister Pumbuli 1: The secret of the black mummy (discovery of the child pharaoh Tutankhamun)
• Mona, Max and the moon walker

Web links

• Literature by and about Martin Selle in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage of Martin Selle