Link to an interview with me

[msagara]

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...

Comments

[longlegs21.livejournal.com]

You do give interesting interviews! You started writing so you could continue to work at the bookstore. I would have guessed it was the other way around! I also read the other interviews you have posted on your website.

Question about the West novels: Are they all tragedies?

[estara.livejournal.com]

I never read any of them as tragedies. They're dramatic and some people survive and some don't.

In the Lord of The Rings and even in Harry Potter not all the characters make it to the end, either.

[longlegs21.livejournal.com]

True. Thanks! I haven't read any of them yet, but I thought I was picking up a tragic vibe from what I've read about them.

[estara.livejournal.com]

Let me say that all the characters I really like have survived so far, so I'm fine with where the story's going ^^.

[msagara.livejournal.com]

Question about the West novels: Are they all tragedies?

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.

[longlegs21.livejournal.com]

Well, I suppose I'll have to just read one and see what I think! :-)
Thanks!

[starlady38.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday, Boys' Day or no.

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."