In message <[email protected]>, Raymond E. Feist <[email protected]> writes > >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. > > > > > > > > Ah Ray,
You kept that book quiet, now if only I had the isbn number, another book to add to my cross-stitch collection :) Other than Reading, Cross-stitch is great quiet way to spend a day. So with this book I get the best of both world's reading a book by my favourite author and cross-stitching, oh heaven. :) -- Best regards Tammy 'Fantasy is a small step of the imagination, Only limited by your own mind.'
