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glencook-fans-digest Tuesday, October 3 2000 Volume 01 : Number 040
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Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 09:09:22 -0600
From: Eric Herrmann <shpshftr@xmission.com>
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."
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Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 15:06:48 -0500
From: Stacey Harris <harrissg@SLU.EDU>
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
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Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 15:12:18 -0500
From: Stacey Harris <harrissg@SLU.EDU>
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
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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
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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"
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