I am starting to feel like a cee-leb-ri-tee with all these interviews going up at once! But the very lovely cynthea has posted her interview with me as part of her "Authors on the Verge" series ( Read more... )

Here I've been burbling excitedly about all these other author interviews, but now I have one of my own!

Chandler Craig kindly interviewed me for her blog Fumbling With Fiction today, and you can check out the interview right here.

Thank you all so much for contributing questions to my interview pile! As soon as I stop barfing (yes, really -- there's a nasty stomach bug going through our house, and I seem to be its latest victim) I will start compiling and answering ( Read more... )

As I'm struggling through the opening chapters of First Draft in 30 Days I find myself more and more drawn to the idea of interleaving Karen Wiesner's method with Randy Ingermanson's snowflake method, especially as the former seems highly plot-driven and I like the more character-centric approach of the latter ( Read more... )

Eeeeeeee!

I know the soundtrack composer they interviewed for this month's Infuze Magazine! He's one of my brother's best friends!

Check it out: Interview with Mychael Danna.

Now I want to hear that soundtrack he did for The Nativity Story. The Medieval and Renaissance influences he describes make it sound quite cool.

Having been tagged by Cheryl and seen both her answers and melissa_tlc's, I figure I might as well knuckle down and do it too...

( Meme, Myself, and I )

What did I say in comments the other day about not putting too much stock in anything JKR does or doesn't say about Snape? Here she goes again -- the left hand giveth and the right hand taketh away. In a conversation about wacky fan theories:

( Spoilers from Part Two of the Leaky Cauldron/MuggleNet interview with JKR )

So back in 1998, Jo Rowling claims that as a child she would read and re-read the Narnia books and that "even now, if I was in a room with one of the Narnia books I would pick it up like a shot and re-read it." There are numerous other interviews from the early years of HP in which Rowling claims to be a fan of Lewis and makes specific references ( Read more... )

Gacked from cesario, and posted in the vain hope that answering it may stir some deep-buried ember of creativity to life again, it's:

Ask me a question about my writing. Any story, or no particular story, general or specific, addressed to me or one of my characters. And then if you're a writer post this in your own journal.

I love JKR madly. I really do. Especially for this (which is not a book spoiler, so I feel no guilt about not lj-cutting it):

I have no spare time at all. [Laughter]. When I’m not writing or looking after the children, I read and sleep. To be totally honest with you, at the moment sleeping is probably my very favourite thing in the world to do. ( Read more... )