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"I really feel it’s important that each of my books stand on its own."
Not only I am gushy and incoherent, but I'm UNGRAMMATICAL. I could DIE. This is published in this month's Horn Book Magazine. A rare chance to hype my own book, and I sound like an idiot. I have about four really's in three paragraphs, most of them in the final sentences.
The quotations from authors are a sidebar to this article, "Epic Fantasy Meets Sequel Prejudice," by Jonathan Hunt.
Anyway, my humiliatingly puerile statement will tell you a little more about why The Lion Hunter is only "half a book," as![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
coffeeandink calls it.
Not only I am gushy and incoherent, but I'm UNGRAMMATICAL. I could DIE. This is published in this month's Horn Book Magazine. A rare chance to hype my own book, and I sound like an idiot. I have about four really's in three paragraphs, most of them in the final sentences.
The quotations from authors are a sidebar to this article, "Epic Fantasy Meets Sequel Prejudice," by Jonathan Hunt.
Anyway, my humiliatingly puerile statement will tell you a little more about why The Lion Hunter is only "half a book," as
coffeeandink calls it.
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However, I got a really nice note from Jonathan Hunt yesterday after I'd posted this (and I don't *think* he reads my blog, although I suppose he might) apologizing that one of my "really's" hadn't been removed! That's definitely what I call customer service. And he isn't really a journalist anyway. GOD, there I go, "really" again. I am going to have to purge the word from my vocabulary.
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