In a message dated 2/28/2003 8:34:25 PM Eastern Standard Time, David Goldfarb <goldfarb at OCF.Berkeley.EDU> writes: > 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? :-) Okay, the "great" was redundant. :) You know, I think the quality of her novels is the first topic here that's received unanimous agreement. At least, no one has disagreed, which is as close as we'll ever get. I wonder if I can go 2 for 2 by reccommending Barry Hughart. >>> 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/ Well, I didn't know you could do searches like that. (I've never actually seen a LiveJournal before.) Now where am I going to find time to read all this? >>> (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. Okay, and good for them, but I don't understand why they'd buy unrelated works and not buy a sequel. (Unless they know (or suspect) that she's more interested in the non-sequels and don't want to pressure her.) [still quoting Jo's LJ] >>> 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. I meant fiddling with fantasy and perception in _BtW_. >>> 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. I didn't know it's exact status (expecting it to be in the gray area between Submitted MS and Final Revision) and so it might still be a work in progress. > 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. Of course, but that ruins the joke :P --KG