Because talking is hard enough without all those 'st's
Reviewer Saxon Bullock says:
All we need now from her is a full-length fantasy novel that maintains this level of eye-opening quality, and we'll know for sure that a seriously talented new voice has officially arrived.Oh, is that all.
posted by Among Amid While at 8:31 am
I write fiction. My latest novel is Sea Hearts, published by Allen & Unwin in Australia—this novel is published as The Brides of Rollrock Island by David Fickling Books and Jonathan Cape in the UK, and by Knopf in the US, and will soon come out as Seeherzen from Rowohlt in Germany. I've also written Tender Morsels and five short story collections: White Time, Black Juice, Red Spikes, Yellowcake and Cracklescape.
8 Comments:
Of course that's all!! Margo, if you're going to conquer the universe you have to get with the program. Novel first, life later.
Yah, no pressure, Margo!
Tee-hee!
Huh.
The next time I see Saxon I will sit him down and Explain to him, in No Uncertain Terms, why the short story is not a Mere Stepping Stone to the novel.
You just keep writing your exquisitely crafted short stories ma'am and let the more verbose of the world work on their novels.
Go, Farah! *sharpens quill, gazes into trees outside window, awaits short-story muse* :)
What Farah said. I love the compliment half of the comment. But grrr--the dude has little comprehension of the literary forms.
Blimey. I thought my ears were burning.
Okay- never previously had the experience of finding out someone I've reviewed is narked at what I wrote, so this is rather new. All I wanted to say is that it wasn't my intention to denigrate the short story form, and it was intended as a compliment. No offence was meant in any way.
It was just my point of view, and when you're writing for SFX, you've got to approach things from an occasionally slightly blunt commercial perspective. And, having really enjoyed Black Juice, I actually wanted to read something longer- especially with the kind of world building you were doing. Seeing something like that on a larger scale in a framework is something I'd genuinely like to see.
Hi Saxon, and welcome! Actually, I wasn't narked; it's just that I've spent a year bashing away at a novel that hasn't come good, so your phrase "All we need now" sounded a bit cavalier to my ears, as I stood swaying, dazed, depressed and covered in dust from collapsed novel! (What - that didn't come across in those four words?)
I do understand, and even share, the "blunt commercial perspective' that says that novels sell better than short stories, which is why I've been trying to complete a novel(I've written YA naturalistic novels in the past, but nothing in the vein of the Black Juice stories). And I'll keep trying.
I'll also keep writing short stories - because short stories are the form that has done best for me so far, and because they're so quick and so flexible and so much fun.
(Farah, just how hard did you hit this man with your short-story cudgel?)
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