From: owner-glencook-fans-digest@lists.xmission.com (glencook-fans-digest) To: glencook-fans-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: glencook-fans-digest V1 #40 Reply-To: glencook-fans-digest Sender: owner-glencook-fans-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-glencook-fans-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk glencook-fans-digest Tuesday, October 3 2000 Volume 01 : Number 040 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 09:09:22 -0600 From: Eric Herrmann Subject: (glencook-fans) Web site updates The September mail archive has been posted. The Mailing list FAQ v1.0 has been posted. An article from 1990, "Fiction Factory", has been posted. Contains some interesting financial information about how much Glen makes off of books. Also, I received a message from a fan who wrote to Glen. He says that Glen says that "the Science Fiction Book Club is re-issueing the Annals of the Black Company as well as the rest of the series...No dates of releases though." - -- Eric Herrmann ======================================================================= To unsubscribe, subscribe, or access the archives of this list, visit . ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 15:06:48 -0500 From: Stacey Harris Subject: (glencook-fans) talk with Glen Hi, all, I attended Archon this past weekend and spoke at some length with Glen Cook. Thought I'd share a few things. (I don't have my notes right here with me right now, so I may issue an addendum to this note when I locate them.) On the future of Dread Empire series: This sold very poorly except for the two latest ones in the chronical ("Ill Fate Marshaling" and "Reap the East Wind", I think). Glen is very concerned about the fact that he left things in media res (a cliff-hanger), but he's sceptical that his agent will find a publisher for continuance of the series. He will, however, talk to his agent about this in the near future. On the future of the Black Company series: "Glittering Stone" was envisioned as a single 4-volume (million-word!) "book", and it was, indeed, intended as the capstone and finisher of the BC series. However, this series is by far his best-selling one (the first volume still in press, 15 years later!), and his agent is certain to try to get him to write some more volumes. (More on that in a separate spoiler note.) Looks likely. On the Garrett series: There's another book in the pipeline (i.e., due out soon). Present work: He's 8 months into a Really Big crime novel--no fantasy, not even SF (save that it's sufficiently far into the future that cop stations have routine access to networked computers; Glen says 2005, but I have my doubts...). His agent is Really Upset that he's "wasting" his time with such a low-profit item; but that's the advantage of being able to retire: He can afford to write what he wants to! On the line, "Soldiers live. And wonder why.": Glen says this is a line from an unpublished(?) poem on the Vietnam war; he heard it somewhere (TV show? I'm not sure), and it stuck in his head. Survivor guilt, of course: What he says really is the feeling that a grunt gets after a bad fire-fight, assuming he's there to get a feeling. On background of the Black Company: Glen originally intended the cultural background (for the Books of the North) to be something Mid-Eastern. But deadlines got in the way, so he went with that he knew, a European feel. For the Books of the South, he became interested in Hindu mythology (I think unrelated to his fiction writing), with its mulitple namings for many deities, so he decided to incorporate that. On the BC as corporate protagonist: That's the way he envisioned it all along. On novel writing: He usually has some central idea well in mind before he begins--perhaps a crucial scene or some specific development. He then starts at the beginning, knowing part of where he's got to go along the way. Steve ======================================================================= To unsubscribe, subscribe, or access the archives of this list, visit . ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 15:12:18 -0500 From: Stacey Harris Subject: (glencook-fans) Whither the Black Company -- SPOILER Hi, all, Note that there are SPOILERS here for "Soldiers Live". I asked Glen if he had any idea where he might go with another BC novel, assuming his agent persuades him to write another. He has some vague ideas, pretty much along the lines we've been speculating on here: Using Croaker's new position of omniscience to visit the Company past or to explore what happens with his adopted daughters. I got the distinct impression that he fully expects to be writing something along these lines (after his new crime novel is done), but that he hasn't yet solidified exactly which direction he wants to go in. Steve ======================================================================= To unsubscribe, subscribe, or access the archives of this list, visit . ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 14:53:54 -0400 (EDT) From: schew@interzone.com (Steve Chew) Subject: Re: (glencook-fans) Web site updates > >An article from 1990, "Fiction Factory", has been posted. Contains some >interesting financial information about how much Glen makes off of books. > It was an interesting article. Thanks for putting it up. You might consider making a "What's new" section on your home page since it took me a while to find the article. >Also, I received a message from a fan who wrote to Glen. He says that Glen >says that "the Science Fiction Book Club is re-issueing the Annals of the >Black Company as well as the rest of the series...No dates of releases >though." > Excellent! I hope that brings in some decent money for Cook. I have the original SFBC issue but I'll be buying the new ones as well to support him. Steve - -- Steve Chew - schew@interzone.com "Bleating and babbling we fell on his neck with a scream. Wave upon wave of demented avengers march cheerfully out of obscurity into the dream." - Pink Floyd, "Sheep" from "Animals" ======================================================================= To unsubscribe, subscribe, or access the archives of this list, visit . ------------------------------ End of glencook-fans-digest V1 #40 ********************************** ======================================================================= To unsubscribe, subscribe, or access the archives of this list, visit .