I don't know if I like authors telling you in an interview stuff about the characters that was not in their texts. My highly entitled impulse is that if they want to tell stuff that is not their existing works, write some more damn stories... And I'd be curious to see JKR tackle the short story form anyway,
Can't drink, smoke, diddle my willy. Doesn't leave much to do other than watch you blokes stumble around playing Agatha Christie.
Spike ,'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Typo Boy - Apr 16, 2011 8:55:43 am PDT #14479 of 28293
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
le nubian - Apr 16, 2011 9:00:56 am PDT #14480 of 28293
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Ah, ok. I can buy the sorting hat magically bestowing the sword
Is it the sword or the phoenix that arrives when you show great allegiance to Dumbledore?
Laga - Apr 16, 2011 9:06:32 am PDT #14481 of 28293
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
That's Fawkes.
le nubian - Apr 16, 2011 9:15:02 am PDT #14482 of 28293
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
of course.
sumi - Apr 16, 2011 10:40:17 am PDT #14483 of 28293
Art Crawl!!!
Table of Contents for the new Bordertown anthology.
Also, GRRM responds to the response to the NYT review of Game of Thrones:
I am not going to get into it myself, except to say
1) if I am writing "boy fiction," who are all those boys with breasts who keep turning up by the hundreds at my signings and readings?
and
(2) thank you, geek girls! I love you all.
Pix - Apr 16, 2011 10:43:47 am PDT #14484 of 28293
The status is NOT quo.
Aww, GRRM just made me love him a lot. Game of Thrones is an incredibly good book. Well written, involved, and very appealing to geek girls like me.
§ ita § - Apr 16, 2011 10:50:13 am PDT #14485 of 28293
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
He remains dodgy on fanfic. I think that's...well, then again, Jo Walton said she'd stop writing if anyone wrote fic of her stuff, so I guess he's tame compared to what some people have said.
I just don't get it.
DavidS - Apr 16, 2011 11:09:15 am PDT #14486 of 28293
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I just don't get it.
Do you feel proprietary about your sketchbook? Would you like somebody else inking over your pencils?
I'd guess that's something close to their perspective and objection.
Even though from our perspective the original work remains untouched.
§ ita § - Apr 16, 2011 11:14:57 am PDT #14487 of 28293
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Would you like somebody else inking over your pencils?
If they could do it and leave me with my pencils, I wouldn't care.
Anything I don't want other people to touch I don't let other people touch. If that means keeping it out of their reach, then so be it. But I guess that's what Walton is threatening to do. It just seems weird not to see your work taking root in people's brains as the natural result of it getting out there.
Amy - Apr 16, 2011 11:59:21 am PDT #14488 of 28293
Because books.
I can understand authors or artists being weirdly proprietary about their own work in the hands of others, but I can't understand why so many authors out there seem surprised by it. People have been doing this FOREVER. Shakespeare used others' characters and basic stories to write some of his plays. This is not new.