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[ewein2412]

"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 coffeeandink   calls it.

Comments

[sarah-prineas.livejournal.com]

No, you don't sound like an idiot! It makes sense and explains the situation very clearly. To tell you the truth, the ending of Lion Hunter frustrated the hell out of me as a reader, but also made me want to read on to find out what happens.

Thanks for posting the Hunt article--it's very timely for me. I just sent it to my editor.

[sovay]

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.

. . . I still love it, though.

[mhari.livejournal.com]

<3

That is actually a good statement. :D

And as evil as the cliffhanger is, it's not like... Robert-Jordan-style evil. XD

[marguerlucy.livejournal.com]

journalists rarely make people sound coherent. Too bad really, when that is THEIR JOB. You know, unless they work for Enquirer.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's cool.

It doesn't make me resent the as-yet-unpublished status of the Empty Kingdom any less, though. :P

[tiboribi.livejournal.com]

I didn't think the article was too terribly inconvenient, but I read it well past when I ought to have gone to sleep.

I think that calling The Lion Hunter half a book is entirely perfect. Cliff-hangers are maddening when the story is building like it's going to end, and then suddenly the hero is in mortal danger. The Lion Hunter didn't do that at all, so it bugged me far less than a surprise cliff-hanger would have. (I was also completely forewarned that it was coming, so it wouldn't have come as a surprise even if I didn't know how books were supposed to be paced.)

[meener.livejournal.com]

i loved your statement! not just because of the insights you offer for your own books but for your analysis of the golden compass. also, i don't know if i ever told you this, but the first book i ever read of yours was a coalition of lions. i think when i stumbled across it in the library, the winter prince had been checked out - so i didn't even REALIZE a book preceded coalition until much later! but that didn't spoil my reading experience in the least - in fact, it's just the opposite: going back and reading the winter prince while already knowing what medraut would be like as an adult made the winter prince that much more powerful and heartbreaking.