tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post4005279049149043834..comments2024-03-28T19:58:31.110-05:00Comments on Bayou Renaissance Man: Writing my fingers off . . .Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10595089829300831372noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-15255694628296172682013-10-30T19:40:17.211-05:002013-10-30T19:40:17.211-05:00I want steampunk. Nyah. I want steampunk. Nyah. On a Wing and a Whimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00754595334684845895noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-81975173669229388102013-10-30T13:42:32.880-05:002013-10-30T13:42:32.880-05:00Yay to the third Maxwell book being up for purchas...Yay to the third Maxwell book being up for purchase soon! Also, I read your prison memoir, even though it's not my usual thing, and I think you did a very good job with it. I plan on buying and reading every book that you publish, when I get the time to read them.naletahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09364644712313728721noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-9834489900277099702013-10-29T15:58:30.068-05:002013-10-29T15:58:30.068-05:00Urban fantasy/city guard - Yes Please!
The fantas...Urban fantasy/city guard - Yes Please!<br /><br />The fantasy series would be fun too, but it's less attractive to me. I've bought 'em all to this point, though, so it'd be fair to say I'm hooked! <br /><br />Patrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09015310389786063118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-92053434207275876792013-10-29T15:25:53.546-05:002013-10-29T15:25:53.546-05:00Hey Peter,
I have bought and read all of your...Hey Peter,<br /><br /> I have bought and read all of your books. Keep writing if you like it, do what you enjoy. That being said, Don't do to the maxwell or any others like the "dragonlance" books on the fantasy genre. I used to buy them, but they kept coming out with trilogies and sub trilogies and I quit buying because the original got diluted and it was a money tree for the publisher. I enjoyed the heck out of your books soo far and have recommended them to others.MrGarabaldihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05768774166065615995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-25528250591691866052013-10-29T14:59:06.874-05:002013-10-29T14:59:06.874-05:00I enjoy both genres, so I'd definitely read a ...I enjoy both genres, so I'd definitely read a fantasy series of yours too. I especially like the idea of each novel being stand-alone instead of the reader being jerked along by one dangling carrot after another. <br /><br />Cliff hangers are OK to help move a story along (e.g., with two alternating story lines within one novel), but not when the reader knows that the author and publisher are only using them to get you to buy the next book. <br /><br />I think it's much more appealing when I grow to care so much for recurring characters that I want to be immersed in their lives again and again <i>without</i> cliff hangers. When an author can get me to do that, that's the sign of a good novel in my book. (Pun intended.) <br /><br />Purple Magpie (too lazy to sign into Wordpress)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-26068830777400731952013-10-29T12:44:11.465-05:002013-10-29T12:44:11.465-05:00The city guard story sounds promising. May I sugg...The city guard story sounds promising. May I suggest you apply the current diversity of public opinion on the on-going US "War on Drugs" to magic users? Not having the focal character be a "drug warrior", but having him and colleagues dealing with societal members having differing viewpoints about magic drawn more-or-less directly from current viewpoints regarding drugs should make for entertaining reading.<br /><br />There is the danger of having the story be subsumed by a particular viewpoint, but the opportunity to confront different aspects of the use of magic as drug use commonly is ought to permit fairly impartial social commentary along with comedy and action.Will Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13454533450309633627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-78451229614390727812013-10-29T09:22:16.659-05:002013-10-29T09:22:16.659-05:00Don't worry about getting typecast - if you li...Don't worry about getting typecast - if you like writing about it, keep doing so. If you keep doing it well, people will buy the books. <br /><br />I've never understood this fear of being typecast, unless the person with the fear doesn't like what they're doing. Why would someone quit doing something they like doing, that they're getting well-paid for, with good job security? Doesn't make sense to me.Dirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04353273036394049597noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-24243456600033279102013-10-29T09:11:03.625-05:002013-10-29T09:11:03.625-05:00The single-volume fantasy series sounds appealing ...The single-volume fantasy series sounds appealing to me. Rather like the Discworld books, where each story is a stand-alone tale, but with familiar characters who reappear here & there.Rev. Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04588179227576383679noreply@blogger.com