On Apr 13, 2012, at 3:28 PM, e-mail pj.hope wrote: > Hi Ray, > > All those years ago when you started out with magician you had a good > deal of source material that was developed during your years of > gaming. I was wondering will you be able to jump right in and start > writing the first book of the new series or will you need to take some > time to develop the new universe and any possible back story or > mythology before you can start.
I'l need a little world building, but not much really. It's funny, but the lesson I learned from Midkemia was you didn't need an entire world. It's like writing a contemporary novel. You really don't need to know much about what's going on in Singapore or what the history of Bali is if you're writing about something going down in Philadelphia. > > I was also wondering about a writer’s freedom in choosing their > artistic direction, was your desire to start a new series in a new > universe met with any resistance from your publishers or editors i.e. > would they have preferred a continuation of stories set in Midkemia? I've been a New York Times Bestseller seven times, a London Times Bestseller ten times. As long as it's a fantasy, they'll publish it. Now, my book on Quilted Cross-Stitch patterns . . . not so much. Best, R.E.F. ---- www.crydee.com Never attribute to malice what can satisfactorily be explained away by stupidity.
