Dusty Chalk
alberngruppenführer
Yeah, I read the first two, still need to get around to the third. Definitely not YA. I was referring to the Darkest Powers and Darkness Rising series. I ended up not liking them as much as Women of the Otherworld -- love the way she would adopt a different voice depending on who was the main character. I actually read books 3 & 4 first (Dime Store Magic and Industrial Magic), the two written from Paige's perspective. It was just wonderful to go back and read what happened in Bitten and especially the events of Stolen to see that there were actually discrepancies between the stories because Paige had only heard about what happened in the compound second hand. And also how she perceives herself versus how she is perceived by, for example, Elena, Savannah, and Hope.
When Neal Stephenson wrote Cryptonomicon, he went on a speaking tour, and I went to hear him speak. He told a story about how the book blew up. As is normal, he submitted an interim manuscript to the publisher, and they actually told him to stop writing. "You're done." "What?" "You can't write any more, otherwise you'll break the binding." So he went off and did a bit of research and found out that paperback books had a hard limit. Which was too bad, because he wasn't done writing -- there were supposed to be four storylines in Cryptonomicon, not three (the fourth being in the future).
He actually went on a lengthy aside -- as he is wont to do -- while he was doing his research, he found this wonderful press that would bind his books with torn edges and everything. "I'm definitely using them for my next book." I have first editions of the Baroque Cycle in hardback -- he did indeed. Also, if you followed the transition of the Baroque Cycle to paperback, he actually rearranged things so that it wasn't three volumes like it was in hardback. For example, Confusion separates the interleaving storylines into two separate books, Bonanza and The Juncto. So he actually wrote to that limitation.
When Neal Stephenson wrote Cryptonomicon, he went on a speaking tour, and I went to hear him speak. He told a story about how the book blew up. As is normal, he submitted an interim manuscript to the publisher, and they actually told him to stop writing. "You're done." "What?" "You can't write any more, otherwise you'll break the binding." So he went off and did a bit of research and found out that paperback books had a hard limit. Which was too bad, because he wasn't done writing -- there were supposed to be four storylines in Cryptonomicon, not three (the fourth being in the future).
He actually went on a lengthy aside -- as he is wont to do -- while he was doing his research, he found this wonderful press that would bind his books with torn edges and everything. "I'm definitely using them for my next book." I have first editions of the Baroque Cycle in hardback -- he did indeed. Also, if you followed the transition of the Baroque Cycle to paperback, he actually rearranged things so that it wasn't three volumes like it was in hardback. For example, Confusion separates the interleaving storylines into two separate books, Bonanza and The Juncto. So he actually wrote to that limitation.