From: GaertK at aol.com: >In a message dated 2/28/2003 2:47:02 AM Eastern Standard >Time, David Goldfarb <goldfarb at OCF.Berkeley.EDU> writes: > >[Jo Walton's great novels] As opposed to all of her terrible boring novels? :-) >> According to Jo's LiveJournal, > >Link? A quick Google turned up several other people's LJs >mentioning her, but not her own. And Jo's old website >( www.bluejo.demon.co.uk ) is disappearing fast. Well, you can find her easily enough by going to groups.google and finding her email address, and then going to LiveJournal and searching on that, so I feel comfortable in posting this: http://papersky.livejournal.com/ >> (Quoth she: "If they want me to write a sequel to Prize >> they can tell me so and give me some money. > >I'm surprised (borderline shocked) that Tor hasn't remedied >this yet. Don't even bad sequels make money? (Not that Jo >would ever write a bad sequel.) Tor's attitude seems to be that they publish authors rather than books. I.e., if Jo wants to write something different, they won't push her to write in-series. >She does seem to be at least thinking about it, since she >asked us on rasfw for title suggestions (and was surprised >when we asked what the book was about). True enough. >> Meanwhile, I want to fiddle about with the edges of fantasy >> and perception.) > >What's wrong with doing both at the same time? I get the impression that she finds it hard to work on more than one book at a time. >> The thing she's currently doing doesn't have a title yet so >> far as I know. > >_Tooth and Claw_ is expected to be published this fall. I >don't know if that's what you're talking about here. She >described it as "a comedy of manners where all the characters >are dragons" and I commented that I expect that description >to match parts of _Lord of Castle Black_ as well. No, no -- _Tooth and Claw_ is done and delivered. (And is lots of fun.) This is an entirely new novel. I might note that while many of the characters in _The Lord of Castle Black_ will be Dragons, the characters in _Tooth and Claw_ will be small-d dragons, with wings and scales and fiery breath. -- David Goldfarb <*>|"Ah, Amerikanski humor. Is most funny. goldfarb at ocf.berkeley.edu | goldfarb at csua.berkeley.edu | We bomb now." | -- J. Michael Straczynski