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Jeff VanderMeer interviews me
A few days ago I discovered that Jeff VanderMeer (yes, the two-time World Fantasy Award winner: that Jeff VanderMeer) was running an interesting survey on his blog, Ecstatic Days, in which he had posted several examples of book cover art and then asked his readers several questions about, such as what kind of book they thought it was, who it was meant to appeal to, if they’d be willing to be seen reading it, that kind of thing.
One of the images he chose was the cover of Marseguro, which didn’t fare all that well with his readers (although I still like it), most of whom guessed it was military SF, which it isn’t…exactly. Jeff noted that some of the authors might be about and were stoically stopping themselves from commenting, so I posted a comment in which I…stoically stopped myself from commenting.
Jeff’s obviously a great guy, because he’s now posted a whole interview with me. Read it here!
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That would be J.M. McDermott with Last Dragon. I won a ARC of his book in a poetry contest a while back.
Kind of early to tell.
Who’s your other friend who attracted Jeff’s attention? (He seems to have lots of attention to go around, which is great.)
Wow. I had two friends have books come out on the same day and both attracted Jeff VanderMeer’s attention. I’m just kind of basking in all the reflected happiness. Hope your sales are coming along nicely.