The lack of research, it burns...

[tenaya-owlcat.livejournal.com]

I don't know if any of you have had the misfortune to see this, but LKH has an interview in the latest issue of Writer's Digest. I, being curious (which as we all know, killed the kitty), read this interview. Pretty standard LKH fare, until I got to an answer she gave concerning the Merry Gentry series.

Now, I don't have the mag, so this isn't an exact quote, but she said something to the effect that when she wrote the first MG book, she was doing research into the mystery genre, because up to that point, there were no fantasy series that had gotten to five books.

Um, excuse me? One trip to the bookstore (or one logon to Amazon) would show you differently. The first MG came out in 2000, I believe. At that time, there was the Wheel of Time series, the Myth Adventures series, the Dragon and the George series... and if you allow series/trilogies that continue stories from earlier series/trilogies, you can add in all of Tamora Pierce's Tortall books, Robin Hobb's Farseer and Liveship books... The list goes on. I suppose she needed to feel that she was breaking new ground or something.

And worst of all? She said that she found out that the series with the most amount of books in it had gotten to 70 novels... so that's what she wants to beat.

Comments

[meerycat.livejournal.com]

"I like huge works."

Maybe that WAS her attempt to explain Micah?

[terrie01.livejournal.com]

Well, Micah is a piece of work.