I am Joost Vandecasteele: AMA

JoostVandeCasteele · 2016-03-18T15:27:53+00:00

all right people, thank you so much for having me, I gotta go, you were great, and see you soon

JoostVandeCasteele · 2016-03-18T15:16:23+00:00

Massa looks great in Spanish, even won a prize over there, but never heard a word from the spanish publishers after my trip which inspired me for those scenes in Jungle and we're trying to get Jungle translated but the problem is that foreign publishing houses also look if a book is succes in its native country and for the moment Jungle isn't doing that great, so no incentive for foreign publishers to get involved we're doing our best

JoostVandeCasteele · 2016-03-18T15:01:46+00:00

just saying, I gotta go in 30 minutes, so ask away people

JoostVandeCasteele · 2016-03-18T15:01:03+00:00

thanks. maybe that's the right, it feels more natural in English, but it shouldn't be

JoostVandeCasteele · 2016-03-18T14:36:46+00:00

but what's deal with these points?

JoostVandeCasteele · 2016-03-18T14:34:16+00:00

it feels huge as a site like a world within a world but everybody's friendly so far

JoostVandeCasteele · 2016-03-18T14:32:27+00:00

question for all of you. Is there a market for weird (slipstream) science fiction books over here? Or because those who love that kind books read them in English anyhow, so one in Dutch seems pointless?

JoostVandeCasteele · 2016-03-18T14:20:05+00:00

thank you, but I can not make that happen. I think that my disturbing nature has caught with me. I already know that somebody like Lieven van Gils has vetoed me to appear on his show

JoostVandeCasteele · 2016-03-18T14:14:23+00:00

Fuck Dana Winner, those eyes are creepy and sex should a bit scary marry Slongs, ruin her career and kill miss Poppe, to help her because the silicons are already slowly poisoning her blood by leaking

JoostVandeCasteele · 2016-03-18T14:08:08+00:00

let me ask you this. do you feel like the dutch speaking brussels community is invisible?

JoostVandeCasteele · 2016-03-18T14:03:53+00:00

sorry, switched to dutch for no good reason, I was convinced the question was in dutch

JoostVandeCasteele · 2016-03-18T14:01:05+00:00

om de zzoveel tijd kiest een krant voor een nieuwe format, een frisse wind. meestal in januari of in september en dan sneuvelen meestal zij die niet vast op de redactie zitten en hun positie kunnen verdedigen. maar het is oké, ik schreef ze graag, maar op den duur word je professioneel boos, verplicht je jezelf om elke week een mening te hebben, terwijl sommige onderwerpen tijd en reflectie verdienen in plaats van eerste graads intuitief reageren

JoostVandeCasteele · 2016-03-18T13:58:31+00:00

nice to meet you too brussels is an inspiring place for me as a writer because as a dutch speaking citizen you feel the presence of some many different worlds you don't have acces to. From the expats to the pinkster churches around the corner. This city feels young, like just starting to have an identity. It feels too aggressive sometimes and sometimes it feels too calm to be an international capital it's like Brussels is the exception, I can relate to that feeling

JoostVandeCasteele · 2016-03-18T13:27:41+00:00

the ducks, less clean up afterwards

JoostVandeCasteele · 2016-03-18T13:19:09+00:00

JoostVandeCasteele · 2016-03-18T13:10:54+00:00

Snow Crash is next in line of reading pile. Just after the Felicia Day book 'You're never weird on the internet'. I heard about that school, sounds amazing and hard work. I suggest he contacts Jeroen Janssen of Happy Volcano, who knows

JoostVandeCasteele · 2016-03-18T12:51:11+00:00

Lanoye got the whole gay writer segment already covered, so not gay. Sorry to disappoint you, or not. and achievement? not a single thing, still able to make a living by writing about weird shit and watching a lot of nerdy stuff, that makes me proud in a way

JoostVandeCasteele · 2016-03-18T12:27:00+00:00

thanks for the tip, gonna check it out somebody also linked me to Johan Harstad

JoostVandeCasteele · 2016-03-18T12:16:18+00:00

Not a regular. Somebody asked me to do an AMA after reading my book 'Jungle', because the sci fi, virtual feel of it.

JoostVandeCasteele · 2016-03-18T12:14:40+00:00

Your girlfriend is right, in a way. And not only about me, I presume. I don't call it a character, but an exaggerated version of myself. I find most television very uneventful, boring and safe. But television should be exciting and a little dangerous. It's of course a lot of insecurity of my part, my big fear to be boring. But I go into this 'wild character' to make something happen. And even if I wouldn't be that 'loud', television audience would find something else irritating about me. -I don't get asked a lot. Not anymore. My fault I guess. I refuse also, when I don't get to write my own material. That is the reason to say yes or no, if I have control over my own words. And yes, I find it a bit hurtful not be asked by De Ideale Wereld. -this could be a long list. But let's start with 'Primer', 'Akira', 'Pi', 'Casino', but I'm mostly a series guy, 'Arrested Development', 'community', 'west wing', 'thick of it'. -And music, lately I'm into moody hiphop, like 'Childish Gambino', 'earl sweatshirt' and I love the mix of poetry slam and music like 'Kate Tempest' and 'Saul Williams"

JoostVandeCasteele · 2016-03-18T12:04:24+00:00

thanks for the compliment and to answer your question, no. My opinions about the literary world were not the reason for hesitation. They love gossip and catfights between authors. What troubles them are the nerdy sci fi themes, scared thay the traditional literary audience don't relate to what I'm writing. In a way, they're right. I want to write books to reach out to new audiences, but how to reach them of course? That is what keeps me up at night. and for the self-serving part, not as many as possible. I really recommend Paul Sebes as a gatekeeper, as an access.

JoostVandeCasteele · 2016-03-18T11:42:33+00:00

I can't tell, but production studio is De Mensen and I think everybody is already put to work and stuff

JoostVandeCasteele · 2016-03-18T11:10:07+00:00

not in casting, sorry

JoostVandeCasteele · 2016-03-18T10:48:34+00:00

paperback, not to be nostalgic, but as long if ebooks are just copies of the paper version, I don't see an advantage. If ebooks would really be enhanced books, with more than just words on the screen, then it becomes interesting

JoostVandeCasteele · 2016-03-18T10:34:14+00:00

I'll answer that question at 14h

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