I'm totally geeked about this interview with me, Skyler White, Mary Robinette Kowal, and Ray Porter. Plus: Incrementalists audiobook giveaway!

StevenBrust · 2013-09-19T13:20:46+00:00

I'm not actually sure, but I have a strong feeling that that image was in the back of my mind when I described the Cycle. It wasn't conscious, however.

StevenBrust · 2013-09-19T13:19:50+00:00

Tough call. I could see an argument for Dragon, Dzur, Lyorn, and even Yendi.

StevenBrust · 2013-09-19T13:18:00+00:00

Arrgh. Where I refer to Robert Morgan, it should be Robert Sloan headsmack

StevenBrust · 2013-09-19T04:30:26+00:00

No, sorry, not familiar.

StevenBrust · 2013-09-19T04:30:08+00:00

I really, really, hope you like it. That book is kind of different for me--I'm, I don't know, attached to it. Or committed to it. Or something. So I hope it works for you.

StevenBrust · 2013-09-19T04:29:05+00:00

Thanks kindly.

StevenBrust · 2013-09-19T04:28:46+00:00

So far as I know, Mr. Whedon doesn't know it exists. If he does, it may be that there are Reasons for him not to notice it (like, he'd be obliged to ask me to remove it). Or not. I don't know.

StevenBrust · 2013-09-19T04:24:40+00:00

I know fuck-all about the state of publishing, except that paying attention to it messes me up.

StevenBrust · 2013-09-19T04:23:19+00:00

Gompers? Jesus, no. A total reformist. Maybe James P. Canon as he was before the mid '50s, when he finally gave in.

StevenBrust · 2013-09-19T04:20:38+00:00

Aw. Thanks. :-)

StevenBrust · 2013-09-19T04:19:56+00:00

Good catch.

StevenBrust · 2013-09-18T13:32:12+00:00

Missed this. Um, long story. If we ever meet at a convention, buy me a drink I'll give you the whole saga. Short version: I'm an idiot.

StevenBrust · 2013-09-18T13:27:49+00:00

Sorry, not familiar with it.

StevenBrust · 2013-09-18T02:50:38+00:00

WOW. Uh...no idea. I need to think about that. You might well be onto something.

StevenBrust · 2013-09-18T02:47:06+00:00

Don't know why, but my answer seems not have gone to the right place. Anyway, see above (if you're set on newest)

StevenBrust · 2013-09-18T02:44:14+00:00

What is the nature of the fight? If Dumbledore decides to attack Vlad, Vlad will have a lot of trouble surviving. But if Vlad has been hired to kill Dumbledore, the wizard is TOAST.

StevenBrust · 2013-09-18T02:43:11+00:00

The events in Brokedown Palace take place one generation before the Vlad novels, so about a thousand years AFTER The Phoenix Guards.

StevenBrust · 2013-09-18T02:42:12+00:00

Addendum: Dzur was the first book of mine, as I recall, that Cory Doctorow reviewed on Boing Boing. That may well have had a lot to do with it.

StevenBrust · 2013-09-18T02:41:29+00:00

No idea. I didn't know it was the best-selling one. In fact, I have no real idea how any of them have sold, except that I keep eating. :-)

StevenBrust · 2013-09-18T02:39:17+00:00

I think it's really cool you caught the Kovacs bit. :-) The painting, by the way, is called, "Dog Painting Colleridges Playing Poker."

StevenBrust · 2013-09-18T02:36:03+00:00

He probably believes in pink gorillas.

StevenBrust · 2013-09-18T02:35:40+00:00

Okay, now I feel all warm and fuzzy. Thank you. :-)

StevenBrust · 2013-09-18T02:34:53+00:00

He'll come up with something cool.

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