Failing again. Failing better.
Bestselling fantasy author Patrick Rothfuss gave an interview with an L.A. Times blog about his love of fantasy, and how it needs to grow and move beyond some of the original tropes like dwarves and dragons. Check it out.
Recently, authors Joe Hill (Twitter) and Myke Cole (Twitter) had posts that struck a chord with me–hence the late post today. I’ve been wrangling with these ideas all morning. Hill wrote about self-publishing vs. traditional publishing, and Cole wrote about when he “stopped thinking of a novel as a work of art, and started thinking…
So it’s a short post today, because I’m trying to get a bunch of stuff done this morning so that I can go see Stringer Bell lead a team of kaiju-fighting giant robots. But, despite that, I have some very interesting and exciting news: according to tor.com and io9.com, Fox has optioned Patrick Rothfuss’s Kingkiller…
For many people, it’s the first day back after a long holiday. Odds are, the day is dragging, and you’re surfing the internet, looking for distractions. Well, good news, I found a couple things for you. First up is a 20 minute interview with Brandon Sanderson about how he got started as a writer. An…
I’m a little late on this one (by a couple of days), but episode five of Geek and Sundry’s The Story Board has come out. Entitled “Life Online: Putting the Meme in Memoir,” it’s about writers who blog. Once again, hosted by Patrick Rothfuss, it features John Scalzi (Twitter, blog), Wil Wheaton (Twitter, blog), and…