What will happen next in The Rifter? discussion
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orannia wrote: "@Barb/whitney - enjoy! It's a great book!"And if you have the print version, it also makes a great coaster!-- Which, I just realized is what I'm doing with my battered old author's copy! :D
Em-nat wrote: "Barb wrote: "Sure is:-) weird with Whit ( my reading buddy! ) and def great orannia :-D"Wicked Gentlemen was the first Ginn Hale book I ever read oh-so-many years ago! I was a but youngin’ back..."
AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
( My keyboard is not on caps lock, I'm just that excited about the movie in your brain!)
Ginn.. I really really LOVED it!! Dammit but I wanted more! I have bought all your books now.. unless a sneaky little one has evaded me! LOTWH 1&2; WK; FM..is that it? what am I missing? I think I will do Feral Machines next :-D
.. tracked the last one down, and wouldnt you know it was a Shy one HA! HA!
I really loved Wicked Gentlemen too! I kept pushing the next page button on my NOOK when it was over. I wanted more!!! Any plans to write more from that world? I would love to read it :)
whitney wrote: "I really loved Wicked Gentlemen too! I kept pushing the next page button on my NOOK when it was over. I wanted more!!! Any plans to write more from that world? I would love to read it :)"There is a plan, but it's more like a five year plan than a next week plan... Which means that I am writing it but slowly.
Barb wrote: ".. tracked the last one down, and wouldnt you know it was a Shy one HA! HA!"I suspect you've gotten everything... There's Hell Cop 1 & 2 which is an anthology but I don't know if it would be to your taste... The novellas I contributed are probably most like Shy Hunter in tone.
(I'm feeling a little guilty for not writing more or faster... Maybe I should enroll in some speed writing course... Or study under Josh. Not only is he fast but he's great!-- Or better yet, maybe I can get Josh to write for me! heheheh)
Ginn wrote: "Barb wrote: "I'm feeling a little guilty for not writing more or faster... Maybe I should enroll in some speed writing course... Or study under Josh. Not only is he fast but he's great!-- Or better yet, maybe I can get Josh to write for me! heheheh..."Getting classical with clichés: good things come to those who wait!
Besides, it took Susanna Clarke 10 years to write “Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell”. And another of my all-time favorite authors, Meredith Ann Pierce, has been a published author for 3 decades and only has 8 novels to her name : two trilogies, and two stand-alone novels (and a short story anthology thrown in on the side). Every single one of them is an amazing piece of writing. There are several vaunted mainstream authors (I will not name them here! D: ) who release 3 books a year and all of them are poorly written, rushed nonsense. Sometimes speed is the enemy of quality.
Though, I’ve never read one of Josh’s books. I’d like to, since he comes so highly recommended, but I don‘t know where to start. XD
I have read Hell Cop.. and I LOVED Hell Cop :-D
...and what I see in you and Josh is an economy of words - I want more in the story; I want more stories.. BUT in your books every single word counts; I have read sooooo many books where you get the feeling the author wanted to pad the book out with descriptions and dialogue that do nothing but weigh the story down..so basically I am happy to wait for books that are worth rereading :-D
Oh.My.God. ... I just read all of Em-nat's post.. and I do hate you, in the nicest possible way of course...you haven't read any of Josh's work? I am rationing myself on 2 a month to make them last to Xmas! I would love to live Groundhog day in Joshlandia and every day read a book for the first time :-D
Em-nat wrote: "Ginn wrote: "Barb wrote: "I'm feeling a little guilty for not writing more or faster... Maybe I should enroll in some speed writing course... Or study under Josh. Not only is he fast but he's great..."My personal favorite is a novella called Snowball in Hell, but he's written so much that is good that you probably can't go wrong.
Barb wrote: "I have read Hell Cop.. and I LOVED Hell Cop :-D"It was really fun to write because I got to read Nicole's and Astrid's takes on the same world that I was writing about And of course they brought out aspects that I would never have thought of.
I tend to shy away from reading my own work after it's done, but I can go back to those books and re-read because I'm always delighted with the other authors.
Barb wrote: ".. and I do hate you, in the nicest possible way of course...you haven't read any of Josh's work?"I know, Blasphemy, right? XD I am wicked.
And I'd love to read some, there's just so much to choose from! I'm glad to have suggestions on where to start.
Ginnwrote: "AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!( My keyboard is not on caps lock, I'm just that excited about the movie in your brain!) "Hey, I have a strong personal belief that Showtime should invest in the Rifter as a miniseries. :D I dream big.
" Hey, I have a strong personal belief that Showtime ..."I would get Showtime for that!!
Em-nat wrote: "Barb wrote: ".. and I do hate you, in the nicest possible way of course...you haven't read any of Josh's work?"I know, Blasphemy, right? XD I am wicked.
And I'd love to read some, there's ju..."
I LOVE his Adrien English series. Well, I love all of his work but that series became an obsession! Ooooh, The Darkling Thrush too!!
Ginn wrote: "I suspect you've gotten everything... There's Hell Cop 1 & 2 which is an anthology but I don't know if it ..."I'm just happy to get more! Thanks :)
whitney wrote: "" Hey, I have a strong personal belief that Showtime ..."I would get Showtime for that!!"
I would get a television for that!
whitney wrote: "Em-nat wrote: "Barb wrote: ".. LOVE his Adrien English series..."They are wonderful books, but I feel that I should warn any reader that he or she MUST buy all the books at once because once you start you won't just want them-- you will NEED them all! :D
I am soooo looking forward to the next collaboration of yours with Josh in the mix too :-)
Ginn wrote: "And if you have the print version, it also makes a great coaster!-- Which, I just realized is what I'm doing with my battered old author'..."That's pure heresy! But knowing you, you do it deliberately...
Anyway that copy of WG should be put behind glass in a museum!
@Em-nat: You have a great talent to pick music matching exactly a book or the scenes of a book!
And you do have to read Josh!
There was a little discussion about the importance of first paragraphs and Nicole just posted an interesting post about the first pages of ''The Rifter'':http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/3...
I just wanted to comment that this is an excellent example of hooking the reader: I remember reading this excerpt some years before Ginn would publish the book and keeping hoping she would finish it ;-).
Antonella wrote: "There was a little discussion about the importance of first paragraphs and Nicole just posted an interesting post about the first pages of ''The Rifter'':http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/3......"
That's so kind!
It looks like a lively, interesting conversation going on there too!
OK, there is much too much calm around here. Am I the only one who's starting to get antsy for Tuesday? This is going to be the biggest, best, most exciting one yet, right? If only there were a thread open already for the Rifter 6 book (who's name I DON"T EVEN KNOW YET!!)....
I will join you in your antsy state of mind!!! my reread will start on Saturday :-D
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the name is:
Broken Fortress
ns wrote: "OK, there is much too much calm around here. Am I the only one who's starting to get antsy for Tuesday? This is going to be the biggest, best, most exciting one yet, right? If only there were a thr..."I’ll be on an island in the Pacific Ocean when Book 6 comes out (who knows, I may even be ON A BOAT), so my enthusiasm is tempered by the fact that I wont be able to read it the instant it’s downloadable x.x
I’ve been assured that there will be an internet connection but I mightfall into a volcano. Or be eaten by a shark. I like to THINK POSITIVE.
ns wrote: "OK, there is much too much calm around here. Am I the only one who's starting to get antsy for Tuesday? This is going to be the biggest, best, most exciting one yet, right? If only there were a thr..."I'm excited!! The BOAT!
Nicole wrote: "ns wrote: "OK, there is much too much calm around here. Am I the only one who's starting to get antsy for Tuesday? This is going to be the biggest, best, most exciting one yet, right? If only there..."Thanks Nicole :)
A group reread may be fun.
oh my God... I am thinking John is the fortress, and he is broken *waaaaah!*
Barb wrote: "oh my God... I am thinking John is the fortress, and he is broken *waaaaah!*"I'm going to say that you could just be right... could be...
Barb wrote: "oh my God... I am thinking John is the fortress, and he is broken *waaaaah!*"That's deep, Barb. Real deep. @,@
who I knew I had it in me....God this is going to be a good book!!! I just know it - I feel it in my bones, youse guys!
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Wow. You know, you're right. I didn't get that before, but... yeah.
I've been trying to find the titles for books 7, 8, 9, but haven't been able to -- are these available somewhere?
no I don't think so..I think we only get them just before release..all part of the torture - which I kinda like ;-D
Nicole and Ginn . . . I have added a photo or 2 to your photo section - a Kyle magnet and a Ginn coaster - hope you don't mind - they will be prizes for the release party ;-D I am working on more!!!
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We have a photo section?
Oh wait! We DO have a photo section. Those are AWESOME!!!
I want one of those magnets.
you are too kind... but I do like to trade, could think of 7-10 things ;-D only joking!!when it is all done I am sure I will be sending you and ginn a memento or 2 (you may want to ask Josh..forewarned and all that..I tend to do loopy rather well!)
ns wrote: "I've been trying to find the titles for books 7, 8, 9, but haven't been able to -- are these available somewhere?"I do have the titles but don't look if you don't want to know!
Book Seven: Enemies and Shadows
Book Eight: The Silent City
Book Nine: The Iron Temple
Book Ten: His Holy Bones
Barb wrote: "no I don't think so..I think we only get them just before release..all part of the torture - which I kinda like ;-D"Ignore my previous post! Or just peek a little, if you like! ;)
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when it is all done I am sure I will be sending you and ginn a memento or 2 (you may want to ask Josh..fo..."
Yeah, that's what Josh said. :)
Ginn wrote: "ns wrote: "I've been trying to find the titles for books 7, 8, 9, but haven't been able to -- are these available somewhere?"I do have the titles but don't look if you don't want to know!"
Ah, thank you so much, Ginn! I don't consider them a spoiler in anyway, so I'm good. FWIW, interesting and cool titles, all...
Barb wrote: "Nicole and Ginn . . . I have added a photo or 2 to your photo section - a Kyle magnet and a Ginn coaster - hope you don't mind - they will be prizes for the release party ;-D I am working on more!!!"Lovely!
I wants to sees more!!!!
Hi everyone! It seems like it's been awhile :( While I'm waiting on more Rifter I'm reading Hell Cop!
What will happen next in The Rifter?
Books mentioned in this topic
Wicked Gentlemen (other topics)Lord of the White Hell, Book 1 (other topics)
The God Eaters (other topics)
Maybe you two are secretly linked through a magical bond that synchronizes that actions of the defenders of the earth, preparing them for the moment when they--as one-- will be called to battle! yeah!!
... or I guess it could just be a coincidence... (you guys would tell the rest of us if it was the whole 'guardians of the earth thing', right?)