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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

[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.

[ewein2412]

wow, that's a very interesting perspective.

I sometimes think that people who don't read The Winter Prince first actually enjoy the other books more honestly. People who read TWP first tend to go bonkers over Medraut and then get all disappointed to discover that he's not the primary focus of the rest of the series.

which bugs me, because I personally think TELEMAKOS is a much more rewarding character to be bonkers about.

[meener.livejournal.com]

perhaps people get bonkers over medraut because he's older? (i know that *i* am madly in love with him, for one. telemakos is love as well, but obviously a different sort - and a sort where it's harder to be wildly fangirly over, maybe, because it demands more articulation.)

[ewein2412]

well, you have a point. Don't worry, he will soon be aged to perfection.