Accepting questions for a Stephen R. Donaldson interview

[pat5150]

Hi there!

To help promote the release of Fatal Revenant, I'll be interviewing Donaldson next month. Feel free to submit your own questions, and the most interesting ones will be chosen to comprise the Q&A.

By the way, I just started Fatal Revenant and it's pretty good thus far!

Patrick
www.fantasyhotlist.blogspot.com

[balon!]

Do you want us to PM you, or just post them here?

[pat5150]

I guess you should post them here. That way, everyone can see what questions you guys came up with!

Patrick

[Ur Dead]

Will we read about any of the Land's long past dead returning to interact with the living?

[balon!]

Any chance of further interactions with the wider lands of the Land? The Brathair or the Giants?

[emotional leper]

We have already seen three 'elemental creatures' -- the Sandgorgons, the Fire-lions, and the Merewives. Will we get to see an air-ish one, to complete the set?

[dlbpharmd]

Hi there!

To help promote the release of Fatal Revenant, I'll be interviewing Donaldson next month. Feel free to submit your own questions, and the most interesting ones will be chosen to comprise the Q&A.

By the way, I just started Fatal Revenant and it's pretty good thus far!

Patrick
www.fantasyhotlist.blogspot.com

Where/when will we see the interview?

[wayfriend]

I'll get back with a good question when I can think of one.

But in the mean time, I'm not too sure that SRD is gonna give out a lot of spoiler information.

[Cameraman Jenn]

EL, wouldn't the air-ish creature be the elohim?

[renny]

has he started writing the next book yet?

if not,why not ?

[High Lord Tolkien]

Hi there!

To help promote the release of Fatal Revenant, I'll be interviewing Donaldson next month. Feel free to submit your own questions, and the most interesting ones will be chosen to comprise the Q&A.

By the way, I just started Fatal Revenant and it's pretty good thus far!

Patrick
www.fantasyhotlist.blogspot.com

I have a question.

Who are you?



I see you've been a member since 2005 but I don't recognize your name.
You will be interviewing him in what way and for what reason?
Just wondering.

[pat5150]

Well, somehow I've become one of the most popular SFF bloggers in the world! Don't ask me how that came to be, though. . .

The interview will appear on my blog, and then will be added to sffworld.com.

I'm still discussing this with Putnam, but the interview should be done via email. As to why I'm interviewing Donaldson, well he's one of my favorite fantasy authors of all time!

I've interviewed authors such as George R. R. Martin, Robin Hobb, Tad Williams, Orson Scott Card, Guy Gavriel Kay, and many others in the past, and I'm thrilled to have the opportunity to do a Q&A with Donaldson.

Cheers,

Patrick
www.fantasyhotlist.blogspot.com

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I have a question.

Who are you?



I see you've been a member since 2005 but I don't recognize your name.

Because the only place he really posts is in the "What sci-fi / fantasy book are you reading now?" thread.

--A

[balon!]

Kay, I thought of a better one with no spoilers.

"When you were a youth what books or authors inspired you to read and write?"

[Stutty]

What does SRD have to say to us proud THOOLAHs?

[High Lord Tolkien]

What does SRD have to say to us proud THOOLAHs?

I think when he was told about THOOLAH a few months ago he thought it was pretty funny.

[SoulBiter]

Question: What ideas do you have for future books or stories that you have in the back (or front) of your mind that you want to start working on when you are done with the new Covenant novels?

[wayfriend]

Put's on dick hat.

Pat5150:

For many of us, any time we think of a question for SRD, we ask SRD! He has this thing called the Gradual Interview on his website. He's been answering fan questions for a long time now ... since before Runes of the Earth. (Forgive me if you already know.)

This makes it rather awkward for me, at least. I already asked the questions that I had. And, if I had a new one, why not ask it there.

If you were so inclined, you could go to the Donaldson website, download the Gradual Interview (its two clicks to download it to a file), and then look at all the questions Donaldson already answered. As research.

Of course, I realize that most of the world doesn't read the Gradual Interview (as appalling as I think that sounds!) and so would very much like to hear Donaldson's answers certain questions, regardless of whether he already answered them on his website. Then again, maybe you'd like to proceed from what is there and go into new territory. Like this: "Mr. Donaldson, on your website, (StephenRDonaldson.com, ding!) you said you aren't capable of planning farther than the end of the Final Chronicles. But perhaps you could tell us ... " Like that.

P.S. to Soulbiter: he really did say that. So that answers your question I think.

Certainly you'd engage the target of your interview with better questions, right? And if he's more engaged in the interview ... you get better results, I would think.

Certainly the GI points out to you all the things that Donaldson doesn't like to answer. That could be helping you to not waste time, as well.

Meanwhile, it remains true that most of the people who like to ask SRD questions have already asked SRD their questions. So you may not have come to fertile ground for interview material.

I hope that your prompting us for questions out of a desire to foster inclusiveness with the fan base ... not, as sometimes happens, in order to get others to do your work for you. If you're really stuck for ideas, perhaps a more honest appeal might yield you some better results.

Thanks.

[A Gunslinger]

Here's a quick Q:

At the beginning of the 2nd Chronicles, Joan could only soothed by drinking Covenant's blood. Meanwhile, the denizens of the Land had to shed blood to the earth in order to survive the sunbane in the absence of earth lore. In the 3rd chronicles, we discover that the Caesures seem to be caused by Joan striking herself in the temple.

In both cases, it seems that Joan and the land are intimately linked..almost as though the land itself is a metaphor for the health of Joan.

Will this link be explainined further, and can Linden heal Joan and therefore the land?

[Rocksister]

Interesting topic. I wouldn't ask for any spoilers. But here's one thing I have been dying to know: how does SRD keep up with the thousands of details that he must incorporate in this continuing storyline, from 30+ years past to the present? He can't mess anything up; people like us will rip him to shreds. Is he a genius that remembers everything forever, or does he have a system? I can't remember why I walked into a certain room most of the time until I have already walked back out of it. No way could I do what he does. Ask him THAT and I'll be happy.