By the way, the positive reviewer didn't read the book because, he said, he's read so many just like them "on steroids." I guess they are Matrix on steroids, as well as Constantine on steroids, Star Wars on steroids, Star Trek on steroids, Battlestar Galactica on steroids, Ghost Adventures...

I've received two reviews on Vella, one positive and one negative. A third review that is positive has failed to go through on two attempts. I think it's because this person read the entire book on another platform. So she will buy the book and review it there. Disappointing that a positive review w...

White Buffalo: Tales of a Warrior-Prophet has now been published on Amazon in paperback format. The hard cover format is still under review by Amazon. You can buy the paperback here:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BDXSL6L5

"The outside explanation might be easier to accept. It goes like this. [...] We're unconscious. And while we're unconscious, we're dreaming. We're sharing a dream." [...] "It's not as farfetched as you think. Deep down in their minds-down where dreams come from-most people have a lot...

Events? Covenant had decided on the beard strategy to discover whether the Land was a dream or was real. But he didn't follow through. He shaved his beard to show that his commitment to Elena superseded his need to resolve his dream/reality issues. "I've made another deal - like the one I made...

What's an example of being tested by evil? The Giants' hope that the prophesied birth of triplets would lead to their return home was turned to horror when the Ravers used shards of the Illearth Stone to possess them. Okay, good. But my question is, what did that do to Covenant? What did Lord Foul ...

Fist and Faith wrote:Nothing specific. Just however you're being tested by evil. The characters were all tested in different ways.

What's an example of being tested by evil?

I know that you're the author of the amazing White Buffalo novel. Reading it changed my life. But what have you written recently? I'm so glad you asked! I currently working on the sequel to White Buffalo called Elijah: Black Crow. Here is an excerpt from chapter 13: “No! Take it! You’ll know wh...

Since it cannot stand on its own as an independent story, GILDEN-FIRE will surely not be read by anyone unfamiliar with 'The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever.' And those readers know that the question of whether or not the Land is ultimately 'real' (whether or not a character like Korik...

By "de trop," I gather that Donaldson was saying in a nice way that it's an ugly cover, or that he doesn't like it for some other profoundly aesthetic reason. We know from the GI that he doesn't like the original covers to the First Chronicles. Even beyond the fact that the Giants are huge...

It doesn't come down to a choice between believing or not believing in the Land's reality. It comes down to a choice between loving or not loving the Land. There's some psychology mixed into this, with Covenant especially. He came to see Lord Foul as his "inner Despiser," the part of himse...

Allison's summoning song:

Allison, O Allison sweet daughter, warrior-princess, love of mine. O daughter thou wilt come to me as I please. O daughter Allison come to me!

Do people even like your novel? You say that nobody has read it. I did say that. In fact, nobody has read White Buffalo all the way through. I'm working on getting more readers. However, I can say this much. Those who have read over half the book report that they are enjoying the reading. I've foun...

Who is White Buffalo? (Note: The keepers of American virtue are telling me that "Native American" is going out of style, and that I'm to write "Indigenous Americans" or something like that.) Whachichun Tatanka, aka White Buffalo, is a member of the Arapaho tribe of Native America...

Seeing Lord Foul's "carious" fangs in the fire at the ritual sacrifice in the real world was pretty telling as to the Land's reality. Yes, but events in the Land always managed to return him to his original state prior to his return, so the test was neutralized. If I remember correctly, th...

Just FYI I hope to read when I have time - but it may be awahile got a lot of balls I am juggling Well, make the time. Someone (not here) pointed out that chapter 2 was so much better in its beginning that I should just delete chapter 1. I think my idea of merging chapter 1 and chapter 2 worked out...

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I don't recall anything like that. I found what I was actually thinking of in The Illearth War: "He had available three easy ways to create a definitive discontinuity: he could destroy his clothes, throw away his penknife- the only thing he had in his pockets- or grow a beard. Then, when he aw...

It's another one of those things that I had and lost many years ago. Donaldson chose this particular scene to read from due to its "serendipity." He had no idea what to have the questors doing between returning to the Northron Climes region and making it back to the Land. This is all expla...