>> 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. :) Sorry. I realize that sort of construction is often more economical of words than a subordinate clause but I can never restrain myself >from at least *thinking* stuff like the above. >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? Can't help you with that one. >> 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.) I think we are talking slightly at cross-purposes here. I have no reason to believe that Tor would *not* buy a sequel if and when Jo writes it. She's the one who wants to do something different at the moment. I interpreted Jo's statement as saying that if Tor really wants _Breaking the Ward_ now, they should specifically request it. (And give her a contract and an advance.) >[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 setting of the new book (which seems to have acquired working titles of either _Lifelode_ or _The Back of Elfland_) is much more conducive to it. -- David Goldfarb <*>|"Tom?...I don't get you." goldfarb at ocf.berkeley.edu | "Nobody does. I'm the wind, baby." goldfarb at csua.berkeley.edu | -- Mystery Science Theater 3000