Author Interview: Hal Duncan
Posted on February 28, 2007 Posted by John Scalzi 15 Comments
The taunting is over: The author interview with Hal Duncan is now up over at By The Way. Hal talks about his books Ink and Vellum, the state of the fantasy genre, and why he writes such long entries over at his blog. It’s a really excellent interview. Enjoy.
Is it just me? or does Mr Duncan look a lot like Peter Patrelli from Heroes? How cool is that?
Off to read the interview.
Interesting interview. I’ll have to look his two books up.
Jim, is this a gold watch day? Congrats!
Steve: Not quite Gold Watch day, but definitely getting there. I’m on detached duty for the next couple months, teaching a specialized form of war fighting doctrine at various places around the country. Then out on Terminal Leave in June, retirement is official in August. But for all intents and purposes, I’m done going to work on a regular basis today. Whoohoo! I foresee some George Killian’s in my very immediate future. Thanks for the warm thoughts, Steve, which considering the -20 temps outside is the only warm thing in sight.
Steve: Not quite Gold Watch day, but definitely getting there. I’m on detached duty for the next couple months, teaching a specialized form of war fighting doctrine at various places around the country. Then out on Terminal Leave in June, retirement is official in August. But for all intents and purposes, I’m done going to work on a regular basis today. Whoohoo! I foresee some George Killian’s in my very immediate future. Thanks for the warm thoughts, Steve, which considering the -20 temps outside is the only warm thing in sight.
Steve: Not quite Gold Watch day, but definitely getting there. I’m on detached duty for the next couple months, teaching a specialized form of war fighting doctrine at various places around the country. Then out on Terminal Leave in June, retirement is official in August. But for all intents and purposes, I’m done going to work on a regular basis today. Whoohoo! I foresee some George Killian’s in my very immediate future. Thanks for the warm thoughts, Steve, which considering the -20 temps outside is the only warm thing in sight.
I really liked Vellum. Now I’m off to find Ink…
Ace interview. Wow, can Mr Hal blather. Though is it actually blather if it’s to the point and makes sense? Hmmm . . .
Are you going to blather as much when I interview you, Justine?
Scots are famous for their loquatiousness; Aussies steer laconic.
Thanks for the interview – I’m at least going to stop over on Hal Duncan’s blog a few times soon.
Though I have to correct him on a small thing and say it’s not the Dutch cartoons of Mohamed that sparked the controversy, they were Danish.
He is wasting his time and energy on those multi-thousand-word blog entries that he should be using to write his books. Tsk, tsk, poor writing discipline.
Lugo, people say that all the time about writers who blog. It might be true for some, but it’s definitely not true for the logorrheacs of the world like Scalzi and Hal. I particularly get the sense with Hal that his blogging gives him a place to work out his ideas and theories that than feed directly into his novels. His novels would suffer if he quit.
Plus, you know, we’d miss out on gems like “The Protocols of the Elders of Sodom”. And that would be a sad, sad thing.
Oh, and good interview, John.
A rather scathing review of Vellum here:
http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue445/excess.html
I guess it can’t hurt to check it out of the library and see for myself…