FNN Interviews the author of WOTAN'S DILEMMA

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Today, Marcia will interview an author who has just released a new book.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span> <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QjKhoVLPW8o..." imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="248" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QjKhoVLPW8o..." width="320" /></a></div></div><div class="Body" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: 18.0pt;"></div><div class="Body" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Marcia Hammerhead:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Today, I'm interviewing a virtually unknown writer named Hank Quense whose latest book is Wotan's Dilemma.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Mr Quense, I must warn you that I love literary works such as Milton's Paradise Lost and Melville's Moby Dick plus artistic masterpieces like Ravel and Respighi symphonies and most operas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>I also despise genre </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;">fiction and I'm afraid the very title of your book smacks of some horrid little genre story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Am I correct in my analysis?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> Hank Quense: Yes, you are to a certain extent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Wotan's Dilemma is a blend of scifi and fantasy, but it's not horrid.</span><br /></div><div class="Body" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: 18.0pt;"></div><div class="Body" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-oIUqQnMzZMM..." imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-oIUqQnMzZMM..." width="266" /></a></div></div><div class="Body" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;">MH: Oh dear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Two trashy genres in one book?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>This could be even worse that I first imagined.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>And I'll decide if it's horrid or not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Can you gives a brief synopsis of this wretched story.</span></div><div class="Body" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;">HQ: Wotan's Dilemma is a retelling of an ancient story known as the Rhinegold Myth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Basically, I used the storyline the opera composer, Richard Wagner, used for his Ring Cycle of operas, reset it in the future instead of the Dark Ages, changed the fantasy creatures to aliens and transformed the morbid tale into comedy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Other than that it's pretty much the original myth. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pvlnZea9KZ8..." imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pvlnZea9KZ8..." width="320" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="Body" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: 18.0pt;"></div><div class="Body" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;">MH: I can't believe your chutzpah!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>You dare to change a classic masterpiece into genre claptrap.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>You should be flogged.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>The Ring Cycle is a classic and my favorite series of operas and yet you desecrated it?</span></div><div class="Body" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left; text-indent: 18pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;">HQ: Well, not exactly. I didn't rewrite the music, I only changed the storyline.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Especially the ending.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Wagner composed great music, but his story-telling skills left much to be desired.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>I had to change the ending, because Wagner's doesn't make sense.</span> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5SloIomDlrs..." imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="270" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5SloIomDlrs..." width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></div></div><div class="Body" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: 18.0pt;"></div><div class="Body" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;">MH: I am shocked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Shocked, that you haven't been denounced by opera lovers everywhere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>How dare you change the ending the of the world's greatest set of operas?</span></div><div class="Body" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;">HQ: It had to be done, Martha.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>I also made Brunnhilde the main character and gave her a quest: to understand and experience mortal love. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span> <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IwsAvV_oqgE..." imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IwsAvV_oqgE..." width="131" /></a></span></div></div><div class="Body" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: 18.0pt;"></div><div class="Body" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;">MH: It's Marcia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>How can Brunnhilde be on a quest when she dies in the last scene?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></div><div class="Body" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;">HQ: She doesn't die in my story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>She lives to go on with her quest.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></div><div class="Body" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-A1p17Lt8o9s..." imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="224" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-A1p17Lt8o9s..." width="320" /></a></div></div><div class="Body" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;">MH: Obviously, your genre drivel must be withdrawn from publication and all copies destroyed before it damages Wagner's reputation.</span></div><div class="Body" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;">HQ: I see no reason to un-publish it, Mary.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span> <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ysC_olDS4G4..." imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="178" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ysC_olDS4G4..." width="320" /></a></div></div><div class="Body" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: 18.0pt;"></div><div class="Body" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;">MH: It's Marcia, not Martha or Mary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You must un-publish the book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Ring Cycle has no humor in it. It isn't meant to be a comedy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>It isn't meant to be scifi.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>It's meant to be a turgid piece of horror, bloodlust and godly vengeance filled with great music.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>It can brook no mockery such as your novel.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;">HQ: Have you read my book, Martina?</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span> <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cF7DOVh2WVU..." imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cF7DOVh2WVU..." /></a></div></div><div class="Body" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: 18.0pt;"></div><div class="Body" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;">MH: My name is Marcia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Of course I haven't read it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>I told you earlier, I despise genre fiction.</span></div><div class="Body" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;">HQ: If you haven't read it, how do you know I didn't improve Wagner's story?</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span> <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div></div><div class="Body" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: 18.0pt;"></div><div class="Body" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Q2jgQPxhESw..." imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="357" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Q2jgQPxhESw..." width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;">MH: It's impossible to improve on perfection.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Since this interview has degenerated into quibbles, my readers will learn nothing of importance and it may actually insult their intelligence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>This interview is over.</span></div><div class="Body" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;">HQ: Thanks for interviewing me, Madeline.</span><br /></div><div class="Body" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: 18.0pt;"></div><div align="center" class="Body" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SGb6BNMobS0..." imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SGb6BNMobS0..." width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;">~ ~ ~</span></div><div align="center" class="Body" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center; text-indent: 18.0pt;"></div><div class="Body" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Faux News Network: despite Ms Hammerhead's prejudice, FNN is thrilled that the author agreed to be interviewed and insulted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>To learn more about <a href="http://strangeworldsonline.com/wp/?pa... style="color: #000099;">Wotan's Dilemma</span></a> click on the title.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span> <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-E5JxYd7c_fI..." imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="21" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-E5JxYd7c_fI..." width="320" /></a></span></div><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;">TWEET #1 - FNN's revealing yet weird interview with Hank Quense. 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