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In case you hadn’t noticed, I’ve got a new Mailing List Signup box on the right (below my picture). This is the way I’ll be cluing in my friends and fans on upcoming plans and cool promotions – the first of which is likely to be a story giveaway (probably before Valentine’s Day — [...]
On the Author-Editor Relationship
I edited a number of Ed’s early novels, including Crown of Fire, Elminster: Making of a Mage, and The Temptation of Elminster (once entitled Elminster in Hell), as well as a trimmed-down edition of his first novel, Spellfire. But he’s also worked with many other editors over time. I asked him what [...]
On the Virtues of Escapism
“Escapism” is a dirty word for many critics of fantasy, but it is not to Ed. He echoes the sentiments of Tolkien and Lewis, who saw fantasy as a means of “moral recovery” and the release of imagination from its everyday chains. Here’s what Ed had to say:
The hardest element of [...]
Sex Scenes and Censorship
I asked Ed for a funny story that involved publishing personalities, and he regaled me with this hilarious gem:
Some years back, I collaborated on a semi-secret rescue job, for free, finishing a novel by a prominent male writer who’d died suddenly (so his widow and family could get the royalties from his [...]
Portrait of the Writer as a Young Man
All the years I have known Ed, he has exhibited a kind of free-floating delight, a zest for life that I have always admired. I asked Ed whether this gusto was simply a character trait, or whether it was a conscious decision. Here is Ed’s illuminating response:
Ah, this [...]
On World Building and Storytelling
Ed is both a world builder and a novelist—which are kind of opposite roles. A world builder has to work primarily with setting and situation while a novelist works primarily with story and plot. I asked Ed how he shifts gears from one role to the other:
I don’t find much difficulty [...]
On Character Creation
As well as being a character in his own right—Ed Greenwood looks like a wizard and sounds like a smooth-jazz DJ from the seventies—Ed has created some of the most iconic characters in fantasy gaming and fiction. For him, character creation isn’t a matter of stats and profiles, but of hearing a character [...]
Origins of the Forgotten Realms
In 1966, a young man named Ed Greenwood was writing adventures about a certain moneylender named Mirt. Over the next forty years, the private world of this private young man became one of the most public role-playing worlds every created: The Forgotten Realms. In this installment, Ed tells us about the [...]
So the weekend ‘net has been alive with comments about the latest Macmillan and Amazon shenanigans. Here’s the short version – Big Six publisher Macmillan (which, among other imprints, controls TOR books) and online book colossus Amazon are in a urinat…
It is election time again, and if you’re in King County, you’ve received your ballot and Voter’s Guide.What, so soon? Didn’t we just have an election four months ago?Yeah, but democracy never sleeps, and thanks to the arcane nature of how we do things …