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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.

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Date: 2008-07-06 02:06 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] cupiscent.livejournal.com
The trilogy question is something near and dear to my heart, since my novel is a single-volume fantasy, and although it will be both very long and of three movements, I am going to resist any and all suggestions that it be split into a trilogy because it's a single-volume story.

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)
From: [identity profile] mimesere.livejournal.com
See, the problem for me with trilogies (and especially with first-time published) is that a) I'm not inclined to trust the author enough to invest that much time and care if I haven't read them before, b) I hate having to wait a LOT, c) if it's going to be a trilogy then I kind of feel like the whole thing should be *done* by the time the first book is published. So maybe it is less the trilogy thing than it is the WIP thing. I um. Was one of the many who got burned by Robert Jordan as a wee me.

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!
Edited Date: 2008-07-06 03:53 pm (UTC)

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Date: 2008-07-06 11:14 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] cupiscent.livejournal.com
Heh. In Australia, if you haven't finished the trilogy when you're selling it to the publisher, they don't want to know. At least, if you're a first-timer. So the books hit the shelves one book every six months, regular as clockwork. (Now if they could just make them good...)

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.

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