ysabel, a cranky musing on (high) fantasy
Jul. 5th, 2008 07:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
read ysabel. was somewhat disappointed, though two of my all time favorite characters from another of GGK's books show up.
Unrelatedly:
now I am all grumpy, though, because dammit, I'm *tired* of reading the same old fantasy novel over and over and over again. Kingkillers, amazing prodigious boy-children(-of-prophecy), darkness to shadow the world, elves/fae, amazing never-before-seen-uses-of-magic, orcs/trolls as the armies of darkness, cruel beautiful women.
just. seriously. there's NOTHING ELSE to be done in high fantasy now? REALLY?
Also, whatever happened to WRITING A GODDAMN NOVEL? WHY IS IT ALL TRILOGIES AND SERIES AND WHATNOT? TELL A GODDAMN STORY AND HAVE DONE.
eta: totally unrelatedly - a CCI 2008 update - 4 day and Saturday is totally sold out, Friday is almost sold out, Thursday is getting there, and Sunday is lagging behind. They all sold out last year and look well on their way to selling out this year.
Unrelatedly:
now I am all grumpy, though, because dammit, I'm *tired* of reading the same old fantasy novel over and over and over again. Kingkillers, amazing prodigious boy-children(-of-prophecy), darkness to shadow the world, elves/fae, amazing never-before-seen-uses-of-magic, orcs/trolls as the armies of darkness, cruel beautiful women.
just. seriously. there's NOTHING ELSE to be done in high fantasy now? REALLY?
Also, whatever happened to WRITING A GODDAMN NOVEL? WHY IS IT ALL TRILOGIES AND SERIES AND WHATNOT? TELL A GODDAMN STORY AND HAVE DONE.
eta: totally unrelatedly - a CCI 2008 update - 4 day and Saturday is totally sold out, Friday is almost sold out, Thursday is getting there, and Sunday is lagging behind. They all sold out last year and look well on their way to selling out this year.
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Date: 2008-07-06 02:06 pm (UTC)It's a publishing thing, though. More books = more money. It's more or less a fact that unless a first book is a freakish success, it does not make money. What makes money is back-catalogue, and a trilogy is instant back-catalogue. Fantasy publishers in Australia want trilogies, and I am still uncertain how I'm going to overcome this.
It's an interesting point that I read and have always read fantasy for the epic of its scope, but in recent years I, too, have been yearning for something solid and finite.
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Date: 2008-07-06 03:35 pm (UTC)And I do totally understand the publishing thing and I'm absolutely willing to buy back catalogue for series and such, but the funny thing with trilogies and stuff like it is that if I can't buy the first book, I won't buy the trilogy *at all*. What's the point? I will have missed all the good stuff! (I am usually a fan of the 1st 2 in a trilogy, not so much the 3rd. IDEK) It just all makes me very grumpy.
eta: when your book comes out here, I will buy it and make everyone else I know who reads fantasy buy it. Just sayin'. Built in audience of 3!
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Date: 2008-07-06 11:14 pm (UTC)The funny thing about the fantasy-back-catalogue publishing ploy is that it's frequently foiled by bookshops and their crazy stocking plans. I was in a store the other day, and they had books 1 and 3 of GGK's Fionavar, but not 2. I don't know how this made sense to them. (And they didn't have Al-Rassan at all, which I need a new copy of, because my old one had just about been loved to death. Fie.)
Also: Hee. Thanks. *G* Although if I manage to sell it to the States, I will be set.