“This one has everything you’d expect from epic fantasy—magical swords, dragons, an elvish race, a dwarvish race, love of a princess, internal mythology, and strong drink spread over three books and several thousand pages. And it’s easily the best in the genre—if you want to read a classic epic fantasy series that is not the Lord of the Rings, start here.” Continue reading
“At present, the full last piece (two volumes, now) is at about 1300 pages ms., with another two hundred perhaps to come. That means about 750 pages each in first draft for the new, split books.” Continue reading
“Jell-o brain, Night Two. Just got back from New Jersey and a story conferencing day. All good work, but it’s now three a.m. and my brain…well, you know. Wibble-wobble-wibble.” Continue reading
Tad’s short story, “Child of an Ancient City†is included in the new anthology, By Blood We Live, “33 of the most haunting vampire stories of the past three decades, from some of today’s most renowned authors of fantasy, science fiction, and horror.†Continue reading
“The other reason my books tend to be long is that I have my own ideas about how you make people immerse themselves in an environment, and one of the ways is that you have to give the environment a certain amount of credibility in itself, and that means you have to spend a certain amount of time introducing it and acquainting people with it as you go along.†Continue reading
Tad Williams and Deborah Beale on The Dragons of Ordinary Farm Continue reading