Where is fantasy going with market expectations of constant pace and action?
I’m not necessarily sure the entire market expects constant action. A section of it does, certainly but it always has. Hopefully there will always be room for more reflective tales building towards more gradual revelation. At the moment I see both ends of the [...]
Where is fantasy going with market expectations of constant pace and action?
I think the desire for pace and action has always been there among a good proportion of the genre readership. While there are notable exceptions, most authors of fantasy understand they cannot dither around, even if writing massive epics. But there is, and will [...]
March 17th sees the Write Fantastic crowd coming down to Forbidden Planet Bristol for a signing which includes Stephen Hunt and Diana Wynne Jones.
I had some questions on my mind so I posed them to the Write Fantastic mob, fully
intending to collate them as one post. Sigh best laid plans and all that.
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I blogged a link to Jeff Vandermeer’s article on Bookslut about comparing graphic novels and novels. I wholeheartedly agree with Joe Gordon that you must read the while thing before cheering or throwing any toys out of the pram because Jeff comes from a position of respect and love for both forms.
His thesis is that the two [...]
Just caught site of this new online zine, Dark Matters, which has short fiction and an interview with Douglas Adams made up from rediscovered tapes.
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Joe Gordon over the FPI blog has an interesting take on Jeff Vandermeer’s Bookslut article. More when I’ve read the original but it still amazes me that story telling is over looked. Why? The reason why collections such as the Sandman collection are so loved is down the old-fashioned story telling. What happened? When did [...]
Last night’s episode found the brothers looking into twins: one evil and one good. Again the brothers are being mirrored and their characters given some depth as they react differently to the twins.
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Joe Hill’s Heart-Shaped Box is an extraordinary debut. On the surface its about a ghost and the perils of eBay (trust the author on this - never buy a ghost) but what comes out of this is a fantastic novel of growing up in more senses than one.
Judas Coyne is an aging rocker, still [...]
The Cat in the Hat is 50 years young this month. The Observer has an interview with Audrey Geisel, Ted Geisel’s widow. Its an intriguing look at the world of keeping an artist’s vision. She also has some news of the animated version of Horton hatches the egg which Fox is currently making (though live [...]
I’ve known John Jarrold for a few years and he’s one of the interesting people in genre ( as well as being a good person). Its heartening to see that he’s getting some good sales through his agency. He represents Stephen Hunt who is about to have Court of the Air published.
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