I'm part of an article in The Writer
...from an email interview collected some time ago, but this is the first time I've seen it online. The journalist interviews several writers on the ins and out of trunk stories. I talk a little about "The Flowers of Vashnoi" and Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen.
https://www.writermag.com/writing-ins...
(Note the article is divided over 3 screens, which one must click through sequentially.)
Ta, L.
https://www.writermag.com/writing-ins...
(Note the article is divided over 3 screens, which one must click through sequentially.)
Ta, L.
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Aug 17, 2021 03:54PM
Thanks ... that was an interesting article.
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> “A few chapters in, and it kept refusing to grow any kind of genre action-adventure-intrigue plot, despite my dangling several possibilities in front of it.”Hah! That's a fun glimpse into the creation of Gentleman Jole.
> “A few chapters in, and it kept refusing to grow any kind of genre action-adventure-intrigue plot, despite my dangling several possibilities in front of it.”I just reread GJatRQ this past week, before I saw this interview, and was trying to explain to my wife (who hasn't read it) that this ^^ is exactly what I love most about it. The stakes aren't life-or-death, but one-kind-of-life-or-a-different-kind-of-life.. which is, ultimately, a much bigger thing. I love the sense of curiosity and wonder, shared with science more than grounded in it, that permeates the book. And it means that the ending feels like an opening up to more things instead of a closing off. It's the best kind of character-driven fiction. So it was interesting and timely to read more about its genesis.
