Talking About Writing, 8/29/08
Posted on August 29, 2008 Posted by John Scalzi 11 Comments
Hey there — I’m in Lexington. Writing in a coffee shop. Don’t worry, I’m not fooling anyone.
On the subject of writing, I did an interview with the site Eat, Sleep, Publish, talking about the state of publishing and whether writers will continue to make a living in the future (short answer: Sure hope so). The interview is here.
I hope you’re at Common Grounds – that’s the best coffee shop around.
I’m sitting right next to him, he sure isn’t fooling me!
Yeah, well, I don’t think you’re too easily fooled, Toby.
OT, I just finished Sly Mongoose last night (actually, early this morning). Man, that Pepper is one serious badass!
Wow, so Jason Preston thinks you’re a supergenius. Not bad, John. How do you plan to top that?
@Laurie – Following the Microsoft logic of naming things, he’ll have to become a Supergenius 360 ;)
On the subject of making a living writing books, I was wondering if you had an opinion on what the publishers are doing to our Canadian friends, John?
I picked up a copy of The Last Colony last week and was startled to notice that it’s listed at US$8 in the US and CDN$10 in Canada. And yet the Canadian dollar has been equal to or stronger than the American all year. Any thoughts, or is that just not your bailiwick.
P.S. I enjoyed the book immensely.
Oh hell–I’m kinda nervous to go read the interview for fear that it’ll make my heart hurt. I’ll do anything to avoid returning to a cubicle. However, the state of some of the writing that I see out in the wild reassures me that, in one way or another, the world will always need peeps like us.
Scalzi, what the heck is it with you, traveling, and coffee shops? Once you get out of Dark County they just seem to attract you.
Glad you enjoyed it Hugh! :)
Eat your heart out, Scalzi. I just got back from In-n-Out five minutes ago.
Chocolate covered Bacon?