panel discussion of The Curse of Chalion
The 4th Street Fantasy Convention, a long-running literary spec fic convention here in Minneapolis, took place this past weekend. Being virtual this year, panel discussions were via internet, and thus recorded and more widely sharable than the rather more intimate/ephemeral conversations of the before times.
Anyway, they took on Chalion in honor of its 20th anniversary since publication, here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2JPy...
Pat and I figured out, in discussing it later, that the sequence of events was that I took the Spanish history course in the summer or fall of '97, the abortive letter game was in the summer of '98, and the novel got its start (in the shower, one of the few inceptions I remember clearly) in February of 1999, two months after I'd turned in the manuscript of A Civil Campaign and was scratching around for something different to write.
If you have never attended an SF con, this is a fair sample of what the panel discussions are like.
Ta, L.
Anyway, they took on Chalion in honor of its 20th anniversary since publication, here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2JPy...
Pat and I figured out, in discussing it later, that the sequence of events was that I took the Spanish history course in the summer or fall of '97, the abortive letter game was in the summer of '98, and the novel got its start (in the shower, one of the few inceptions I remember clearly) in February of 1999, two months after I'd turned in the manuscript of A Civil Campaign and was scratching around for something different to write.
If you have never attended an SF con, this is a fair sample of what the panel discussions are like.
Ta, L.
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Jun 20, 2021 10:48PM
I love hearing the backstory!
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20th anniversary!? that was yesterday!A day later: now I can listen to this lovely panel discussion. Extremely interesting discussion - these are literary insights by people who were there for the writing process, in a way, and know Lois personally ....o.0!!!! Now this is a new way to study literature, not historically, exactly, and by multiple interpretations, from afar, but by studying hard fact very close up and through knowing the author who, happily, is also very clear on her motivations and writing process.
I know this is random, but I LOVE your profile picture!! <3
Softness wrote: "I know this is random, but I LOVE your profile picture!! <3"Thanks!
I'm not especially fond of the purple shirt, but all the other factors -- background, framing, focus, expression -- came together. I'll play around with more, as I can con family or friends into operating my cell phone. Because it's digital, and development costs nothing...
Ta, L.
I like the shirt color. It's kind of a smooth mulberry wine. :) Yes, more pictures!
