Comments on: Surprise Me http://bordersblog.com/scifi/2010/03/20/a-lee-martinez/surprise-me/ Just another Bordersblog.com weblog Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:51:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Terry http://bordersblog.com/scifi/2010/03/20/a-lee-martinez/surprise-me/comment-page-1/#comment-3743 Terry Tue, 23 Mar 2010 21:00:42 +0000 http://bordersblog.com/scifi/?p=1955#comment-3743 I agree with Dane. Great post. Last month, Locus Magazine ran an interview with Jo Walton in which she said pretty much the same thing. She says that she doesn't want to write the same book twice because she'd get bored, so she tends to write books that are very different but have common threads - like world-building or connections to history. You can read excerpts from the interview at the link below. http://www.locusmag.com/Perspectives/2010/02/jo-walton-feral-writer.html I agree with Dane. Great post. Last month, Locus Magazine ran an interview with Jo Walton in which she said pretty much the same thing. She says that she doesn’t want to write the same book twice because she’d get bored, so she tends to write books that are very different but have common threads - like world-building or connections to history. You can read excerpts from the interview at the link below.

http://www.locusmag.com/Perspectives/2010/02/jo-walton-feral-writer.html

]]> By: Dane http://bordersblog.com/scifi/2010/03/20/a-lee-martinez/surprise-me/comment-page-1/#comment-3715 Dane Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:54:41 +0000 http://bordersblog.com/scifi/?p=1955#comment-3715 This was a great post. As an aspiring writer, it's always good to hear tales of the trade from established authors. I have plenty of ideas in my head that I want to get on paper, but the anxiety of failure has locked me up a bit. Quick question re: sequels and your hesitance to write them...Has your publisher ever applied a full court press to try to get a sequel from you? If so, how do you weather that storm? Kudos to you for taking the risk and sharing your craft with us. One of these days I may just take the plunge...soon I hope. This was a great post. As an aspiring writer, it’s always good to hear tales of the trade from established authors.

I have plenty of ideas in my head that I want to get on paper, but the anxiety of failure has locked me up a bit.

Quick question re: sequels and your hesitance to write them…Has your publisher ever applied a full court press to try to get a sequel from you? If so, how do you weather that storm?

Kudos to you for taking the risk and sharing your craft with us.

One of these days I may just take the plunge…soon I hope.

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