Dave Puckett
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Mark Lawrence:
Hi Mark, I just bought your "Impossible Times" trilogy starting with the "One Word Kill" I can hardly wait to start them. I already read the preview on the first one and love your style. Well, my question for you today is: I know you wrote short stories, (actually, it was you recommending "Quick" to me that introduced me to your writing) So do you think short stories prepared you to write Novels?
Mark Lawrence
Hi Dave - always good to see the Impossible Times books getting a read.
Short stories definitely taught me (& many other authors) to write. It's harder to write a good short story than a book chapter of similar length.
One good thing about short fiction is that the writer can experiment and take risks without staking a whole novel's worth of effort into the exercise.
Short stories definitely taught me (& many other authors) to write. It's harder to write a good short story than a book chapter of similar length.
One good thing about short fiction is that the writer can experiment and take risks without staking a whole novel's worth of effort into the exercise.
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Will Daggett
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Mark Lawrence:
Hey Mark! So it looks like you have a crazy life outside of just writing, what with being some kind of rocket scientist and what not. How did you manage to make time to write? Also, how old were you when you started? I'm looking to start writing soon, but there always seems to be something demanding too much of me to really make time for it (right now the CPA exam). Thoughts? P.S. You should visit Boston sometime!
Steve Kimmins
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Mark Lawrence:
Looking to the future are you tempted to write anything that’d fall more into the Horror category? You seem to enjoy Stephen King, for example. I think there’s often not much difference between darker, realistic, fantasy and the horror genre. Maybe the main difference is the world in which it’s set, with ‘conventional horror’ being more contemporary, in our world?
Rob
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Mark Lawrence:
I've looked but I haven't been able to find a place where I can buy a poster of the map of the Broken Empire, something like this Middle Earth map: http://www.amazon.com/Rings-Middle-Earth-Poster-Print/dp/B000MUJCDY. Do you have any plans to release such a poster in the future?
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