What do you want me to write about TPOTS for Suvudu's "25 Years of Spectra" List?

[ellenkushner]

This month my US publisher, [Bantam] Spectra, celebrates its 25th year of publishing a truly scrumptious & distinguished array of sf & fantasy titles.  I remember how cool I thought they were when smart young SF editor Lou Aronica founded Spectra in 1985! And how I dreamed of being someday amongst them . . . . Lou & I were pals, and when I finished Swordspoint I sent it to him.  I still have his rejection letter explaining that while he loved reading the novel, it was just too "neither fish nor fowl" for him to publish as a genre novel [paraphrasing from memory here, as I'm at Clarion w/o access to my files].

So you can imagine how thrilled I was when Spectra Senior Editor Anne Groell acquired our new Riverside novel, The Fall of the Kings, for Spectra in 2002 - along with the reprint rights to Swordspoint . . . and then brought out the Swordspoint sequel, The Privilege of the Sword, in 2006.  In between, she also put my Thomas the Rhymer back into print - and in print all 4 of them remain, thanks to Spectra's generous policies.

That's what they're celebrating in their 25 Years of Spectra online; as Anne blogged on June 7th:  Over the next 25 days, we will be presenting you with a classic title or titles that appeared under the Spectra colophon in a given year, and which still remain in print today. . . .  Some of these are genuine classics. Some are books we just plain love. And some are both.

I'm honored to have books featured twice on this list - along with colleagues including Ursula K. Le Guin, Connie Willis, William Gibson, Sheri S. Tepper, Kim Stanley Robinson, Katherine Kerr, Paula Volsky, Lynn Flewelling, George R. R. Martin . . . . They've gotten each of us (or our editors) to write a little something about the works in question.  The List is here, and gets refreshed as each new one goes up over the 25 days - you'll want to keep an eye on it to see what these fine folk and more have to say about their work.

 

So the piece deliasherman  & I just wrote for them (and you)  about how we wrote The Fall of the Kings goes up tomorrow, June 30th (along with Robin Hobb's on her Fool's Errand, yay!).

And now I've got one due for The Privilege of the Sword.

So here's my question for you:  What should I write about for TPOTS?  

Anne simply "beg[ged] a few words or a small essay, talking about the book in question . . . whatever you want to write about the book that you think readers would be interested in. How it came about, or a funny story that happened during the writing or editing... Whatever strikes your fancy, really!"

O Gentle Readers:   You tell me!

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[heartofoshun.livejournal.com]

Edit: Or maybe it was her, a few years later? Huh.

I was thinking that the Black Rose could have been talking about herself as an older girl (still very young). I figure they could have been going to Rosalie's for a few years at least before Alec becomes Duke. (I'm out of my mind! Supposed to be working on something with a hard and immediate deadline. Nevermind me.)

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Oh, what fun it would be to write about all this for you someday. For now, all I can tell you is that Rose is *not* Rosalie's granddaughter (so glad you noticed that bit! I love that kid, too). You'll see a bit more of R&A from other Riversiders' p.o.v. when St Martin's gets around to publishing the Datlow CITIES anthology with "The Duke of Riverside" in it - that might also answer Ann's question - a little....

[heartofoshun.livejournal.com]

I cannot wait to read "The Duke of Riverside."