Foreword to the ebook edition of Tarnsman of Gor, Copyright © 1966 by John Lange
Published by e-reads, New York, ISBN 1-58586-224-X

Warning! Warning! Please put away all cats, coffee and other beverages, fasten your seatbelts and return your tray tables to the upright position - we have Author Sign!

( John Norman says John Norman is the warmest, kindest, most wonderful human being John Norman's ever known )

aka "Tarnsman of Gor," © 1966 John Norman

[raps podium] Hey! Anyone here never ever hear of Barsoom before? No hands going up at all? Anybody out there who didn't already know that everyone knows that Gor is a total rip-off of John Carter, with added testosterone & misogyny? --That's what I thought ( Read more... )

aka "Tarnsman of Gor", by John Norman, © 1966Make sure you have your antacids handy for this, the ride gets even bumpier ( Read more... )

aka "Tarnsman of Gor", by John Norman, © 1966

::waves:: to furikku et al: a big shout-out to all my fellow truculently-critical Amazons in the trenches - there's a special treat for you at the end, I'm saving up John Norman's special new ebook preface containing John Norman's all third person description of John Norman's heroic stand against the ( Read more... )

aka "Tarnsman of Gor", by John Norman, © 1966

The city of Ar must have contained more than a hundred thousand cylinders [ie towers], each ablaze with the lights of the Planting Feast. I did not question that Ar was the greatest city of all known Gor. It was a magnificent and beautiful city, a worthy setting for the jewel of empire, that awesome ( Read more... )

Part I: In Specific

The germ of this rant* came from my discovery of the later volumes of The Wheel Of Time on the dollar table a few months ago - I had given up on the series finally with A Crown Of Swords in 1996, having faltered in my resolution to stop when book 5, The Fires of Heaven, took almost the length of War And Peace to cover about a ( Read more... )

Don't set a story in the reign of John Lackland if you've done no more research nor intend to, than to read the Encyclopedia Americana entry on the Magna Carta.

It really does show.

--Particularly if you're writing a romance, but you leave out all mention of Eleanor of Aquitaine let alone courtly love....

Okay, Anna, D - I went and did it. You guys should be getting invites to join "looneysofnobber" LJ comm, with complete control access, - I'm not doing anything fancy, w/r/t formatting or anything, yall can change what you like as you see fit. Nath, ES, Nenya, Rosie, Saija - anyone else who thinks they'd like to take a stab at writing a Paranormal ( Read more... )