Comments on: My First Interview as a Science Fiction Author http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/09/20/my-first-interview-as-a-science-fiction-author/ I FORGET WHAT EIGHT WAS FOR Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:11:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Skwid http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/09/20/my-first-interview-as-a-science-fiction-author/#comment-165606 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:16:05 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=8568#comment-165606 Man, do you sound young! I mean, not that you sound like an old codger now, or something, but I think your voice has changed as a result of having to speak so much more frequently and at length.

]]> By: Tim Akers http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/09/20/my-first-interview-as-a-science-fiction-author/#comment-165413 Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:20:42 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=8568#comment-165413 That was my very first con, too. I was much earlier in my writerly trajectory, though, so there was no interviewing and very little meeting of fellow writers. Still, a great time.

]]> By: GregLondon http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/09/20/my-first-interview-as-a-science-fiction-author/#comment-165408 Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:04:25 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=8568#comment-165408 Pretty cool. Only 6 years ago, wow. You’ve come a long way, baby.

Oh, and the “land of the misfit toys” reference made me chuckle.

]]> By: David Scholes http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/09/20/my-first-interview-as-a-science-fiction-author/#comment-165397 Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:29:06 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=8568#comment-165397 It was interesting to listen to your first interview as a science fiction author. I’m not sure that I would have gone so far as to describe you as “amusingly clueless about science fiction”

Certainly I have been an avid fan of yours.

After more than 50 years of reading science fiction I decided it was time to make my own (very) modest contribution:

http://www.StrategicBookPublishing.com/ScienceFictionandAlternateHistory.html

Just to give something back for a life time of pleasurable reading.

Cheers

]]> By: John Scalzi http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/09/20/my-first-interview-as-a-science-fiction-author/#comment-165390 Mon, 21 Sep 2009 04:26:10 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=8568#comment-165390 Well, heh, alas, no. By that time I had written several books, had done a book tour and been on TV and radio for interviews a whole bunch of times. I had practice.

]]> By: shane http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/09/20/my-first-interview-as-a-science-fiction-author/#comment-165389 Mon, 21 Sep 2009 04:19:53 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=8568#comment-165389 Mike Resnick has clarified his comment:
http://www.assortednonsense.com/2009/09/20/john-scalzi-interview/#comment-10551

Otherwise, not a bad interview Mr Scalzi. Some people are just born articulate I guess.

]]> By: Pam Adams http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/09/20/my-first-interview-as-a-science-fiction-author/#comment-165385 Mon, 21 Sep 2009 03:11:04 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=8568#comment-165385 I liked the ‘well, if it works out [writing SF], fine, if not, I’ll move on, especially, when looked at from where you are today.

Today’s LA Times article on Penny Arcade was illustrated in the print edition with the strip showing Zoe’s Tale front and center. I don’t think it made it to the online article, though.

]]> By: John Scalzi http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/09/20/my-first-interview-as-a-science-fiction-author/#comment-165351 Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:56:25 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=8568#comment-165351 I think what Resnick is worried about is that new writers will think the way to get published is to put their novels online and wait around for a publisher to come by, rather than submitting work the usual way.

]]> By: bberburb http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/09/20/my-first-interview-as-a-science-fiction-author/#comment-165350 Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:32:42 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=8568#comment-165350 As a former book dealer, almost 20 years experience and now as a manager of a large IT company I fail to understand how the fact that you serialized your first novel on the internet does a “great disservice” to “emerging writers”.

No offence is intended toward Steve Resnick.

bb

]]> By: Doug http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/09/20/my-first-interview-as-a-science-fiction-author/#comment-165340 Sun, 20 Sep 2009 18:25:52 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=8568#comment-165340 Your very first con was a worldcon? Talk about diving in at the deep end!

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