(Erratum: The "Hobbit" sequel is apparently an Internet myth. I'll take the word of Kevin McKeever on this, who is the marketing guy from Harmony Gold who I saw at Otakuthon last weekend. What? Misinformation on the Interweb? Oh nos!)
I've had two Literary Landscape shows since the last post, and I meant to reflect on them. Maybe even post them. But somehow it didn't happen.
I thought when I started hosting the show that 30 minutes would be just fine - more than enough. Now, I'm starting to think as I walk away from an interview that it would have been great to have another half hour to talk about stuff.
For example: I spoke to Marie Bilodeau last night about her latest book, Warrior of Darkness, the second in a fantasy trilogy. I know Marie (we're friends) so interviewing her was a strange feeling, but we got into an interesting conversation about writing in a second language. Marie's first language (could you have guessed?) is French, and in fact she claims her English was terrible when she was in junior high and high school. Now, she writes her novels in English. I'm interested in that, and in how it affects your writing. I was interested in her process: I also wanted to talk longer about French genre writing, which seems to be quite different from English genre writing. And I didn't get to get into the ghettoization of genre.
Ah well. Next time.
