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Interview with Bitter Seeds author Ian Tregillis – The S&L Podcast #033
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Wow, you guys are really churning out the podcasts now!
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Sweet. This was a great episode. I hope you guys keep being able to get authors to interview. I enjoy those a lot.
I really liked this interview, even if I wasn't all that enamoured with the book. ;) Though I do want to clarify something you guys mentioned about my saying that the characters were underdeveloped....I didn't know, when I started the book, or really until I finished it, that it was intended to be the first in a trilogy. But even that drives me nuts, because I felt like it was an incomplete story, RELYING on the reader to read the others in the series...which I have no desire to do. Actually, books in series that don't stand on their own in a satisfying way really drive me bonkers. GRRM doesn't make his books as stand-alone as I'd like. Robert Jordan seemed to, though left you wanting more. Raymond Feist does a GREAT job of making each book in his various series a good work of standalone fiction.
Each their own, though. Still was a great interview, can't wait to see what book is next.
Great interview, Tom and Veronica! (Churning, of course, necessitates a few more weeklies in a row, perhaps?). ()I really thought the novel did stand on its own -- he made each character understandable in the context of the story.
And -- since I had not searched him out on the web, I was completely surprised when I heard his plain old USA accent!
Knowing you had done this interview and podcast helped inspire me to finish. I was left thinking "That's it?" at the end, although it wasn't clear to me that this was the first book in a trilogy until you guys said so! I love that Trelligis doesn't write for his "day job," since the mystery of his day job is kind of fun really.
I'm a huge fan of the idea of more podcasts, and finishing up books more quickly than one every two months. It makes for a far more dynamic group! Way to go.
Jenny wrote: "I love that Trelligis doesn't write for his "day job," since the mystery of his day job is kind of fun really."Sadly, few authors can write for a living. From what I've read, a first time novelist is lucky to make as much as a part-time Wal-Mart employee.
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Ian Tregillis