Ask the Author: B. Cameron Lee
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B. Cameron Lee
Hi Raymond, I thought I'd answered this but it hasn't appeared here. Yes, I'm still writing. I've just published my thirteenth book, Dancing with the Dark, a story which comes from my travels in Australia.
Glad you liked The Final Song, it was my first book.
Cheers, B. Cameron Lee
Glad you liked The Final Song, it was my first book.
Cheers, B. Cameron Lee
B. Cameron Lee
Medical training is really useful Gillian thought, as she noisily sucked the last of the roasted meat from the base of the thumb bone. Hearing a noise, she looked up at the gagged and mutilated boy tied to the chair opposite, her supply of juicy fresh meat for at least the next week, and congratulated herself on her surgical skills.
B. Cameron Lee
I think I'd go to Genebackis or any other part of the Malazan Empire and hang out with the Bridgeburners.
Reading Steven Erikson's Tales of the Malazan Fallen through all ten huge novels is a journey well worth taking. It's like nothing you have ever encountered before.
Reading Steven Erikson's Tales of the Malazan Fallen through all ten huge novels is a journey well worth taking. It's like nothing you have ever encountered before.
B. Cameron Lee
I just bought the complete set of Steven Erikson's 'Tales of the Malazan Fallen' - all ten of them. Have read them years ago but wanted to savour them again. Brilliant!
B. Cameron Lee
I have been to Venezuela twice for two weeks at a time in consecutive years. The first trip I met a veterinarian and we got on okay. The second time I was there I heard he'd been found dead in his car, shot in the head. Apparently he was on his way to visit the Minister of Agriculture.
A mystery which has never been successfully answered.
A mystery which has never been successfully answered.
B. Cameron Lee
My favourite fictional couple are Bren Cameron and his Atevi bodyguard, Jago.
Why? Originally Bren's two main bodyguards, Banichi and Jago, members of the Assassin's Guild, were placed in charge of his well-being to protect him from others in the Assassin's Guild. Over time, as the story progresses through the series, Bren and Jago come together. There is no benefit for either to be involved in a relationship and physically there is quite a difference in size and power between the two. However, despite being alien to each other, they find a place in each others affections.
C.J. Cherryh writes with such authority that the relationship, which has to remain hidden, feels real. Bren and Jago relate to each other without either taking from the relationship and as a side story in the Foreigner series, provide the reader a strangely satisfying love story, even if the two individuals involved are different species.
Why? Originally Bren's two main bodyguards, Banichi and Jago, members of the Assassin's Guild, were placed in charge of his well-being to protect him from others in the Assassin's Guild. Over time, as the story progresses through the series, Bren and Jago come together. There is no benefit for either to be involved in a relationship and physically there is quite a difference in size and power between the two. However, despite being alien to each other, they find a place in each others affections.
C.J. Cherryh writes with such authority that the relationship, which has to remain hidden, feels real. Bren and Jago relate to each other without either taking from the relationship and as a side story in the Foreigner series, provide the reader a strangely satisfying love story, even if the two individuals involved are different species.
B. Cameron Lee
Dream. I don't push it, a story will eventually find a way to get past a stop point. Like water flowing that meets an obstacle, it just gets deeper and eventually carries on. Once, I made myself sit down and write and the act of writing kicked the characters into more storyline.
B. Cameron Lee
Wouldn't know - I'm a Storyteller.
Seriously, for me, its getting to the end of a story which I've knitted together so all the loose ends are taken care of and it makes sense. I take a little pride in originality rather than just rewriting a story.
Seriously, for me, its getting to the end of a story which I've knitted together so all the loose ends are taken care of and it makes sense. I take a little pride in originality rather than just rewriting a story.
B. Cameron Lee
I read this advice years ago and will pass it on.
"Just write. Explore the stories and genres you want to write. After about six books you will find a style and genre you are comfortable with."
Some people are lucky and find a niche straight away but practice doesn't hurt. The other piece of advice is to read a lot of authors in the genre you want to write in.
"Just write. Explore the stories and genres you want to write. After about six books you will find a style and genre you are comfortable with."
Some people are lucky and find a niche straight away but practice doesn't hurt. The other piece of advice is to read a lot of authors in the genre you want to write in.
B. Cameron Lee
I have just finished publishing the True Fire Trilogy but started a story last year which enters the True Fire world from another land. It has been growing in my mind for a while and I feel it would be a good project to write it. There is also the matter of Cringle's family in Cheshwon.
I started two other stories which are also waiting for me and shortly I'll have time to get to all of them.
I started two other stories which are also waiting for me and shortly I'll have time to get to all of them.
B. Cameron Lee
I thought I would like to write a fantasy story and deal with the growth of a character. I didn't have a lot of story but there was a desire to tell one. As with all of my books, once I begin and the character(s) start to take shape, they write the story. I have no idea how that occurs but it's somewhat like a movie in my head. I was reading voraciously when I was six years old and have ever since, I guess it helps imagination flower. I'm more of a storyteller than a writer.
B. Cameron Lee
I find that taking a break for a few days from writing often results in chunks of story just appearing in my head and not necessarily in the correct order. I often dream my stories, lucid dreams. Got a bit weird writing Diary of a Serial Killer. I often want to see where the characters take me which is inspiring in itself.
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