ysabel, a cranky musing on (high) fantasy

[mimesere]

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.

Comments

[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.