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Link to an interview with me
John Ottinger at Grasping for the Wind has just let me know that an interview he conducted has just gone live. It's here.
I have eaten too much cake because, yes, it's that time of year again. I explained to my younger son that the correct number of candles would ruin the cake because by the time they were all lit the icing would be covered with wax.
And now, because people are finally in bed, I am going to try to write a few words...
I have eaten too much cake because, yes, it's that time of year again. I explained to my younger son that the correct number of candles would ruin the cake because by the time they were all lit the icing would be covered with wax.
And now, because people are finally in bed, I am going to try to write a few words...
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It's something I try to forget every year...
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I.e. sparklers and this toddler would be a disaster.
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When I was growing up, my parents put up this big paper carp to celebrate Boys' Day.
Oh, I liked the interview. Actually, I like reading your interviews in general.
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I grew up knowing that I was born on Boy's Day. It probably had a large hand in shaping my character.
Oh, I liked the interview. Actually, I like reading your interviews in general.
Thank you -- I actually liked the way that one turned out, although there was one question which made me feel a little bit under-brainpowered.
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It was. I was born on Boy's Day, and only later discovered that it was associated with any other festivities. (I think Boy's Day was eventually renamed to Children's Day, but, well.)
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Question about the West novels: Are they all tragedies?
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In the Lord of The Rings and even in Harry Potter not all the characters make it to the end, either.
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I admit I don't think of them as tragedies, although possibly Sea of Sorrows has some element of that form. I can't tell -- from the inside of the book, as the writer -- if the rest would be read in the same way as John Ottinger read Hidden City, though.
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Thanks!
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I thought it was interesting that Ottinger read The Hidden City as a tragedy--nothing particularly tragic happened, in my opinion and understanding of the classical definition of the term. It was hugely grim, and while I liked Rath quite a lot I agreed with the statue that he was a fool, but the book itself was not what I would call "tragic."
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Oh and may you enjoy the writing process, too.
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Hidden City and House Name form the thematic half of House War set in the 'past'. The subsequent two volumes are the House War in the present. I'm working on House Name now, but a bunch of little things in the Sun Sword were groundwork for the House War; the latter two books will probably take place entirely in Averalaan, though.
And then I have some 200 pages of the first book in what I think of as The Black Gauntlet, and that book starts, as Hunter's Oath did, in Breodanir, with Cynthia's son. It doesn't stay in Breodanir, though.
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Anything which keeps the story going on past the events in the last published Sun Sword novel is highly appreciated ^^.
If my birthday wish runs out in another twenty years, I'll just renew it then, that should help :D.
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-- Graydon
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Thank you :)