eight intriguing author remarks

Tomorrow Thursday is the last day to grab the indie fantasy bundle, so if you have friends who might be interested, let them know. In fact, I have five giveaway codes that I haven't used yet, so send them to comment here (my journal won't allow anonymous comments, but they can sign in with Twitter or Google Plus or Open ID if they're not on LJ)--I'll select randomly from the people who comment. (I'll make the offer on Twitter, too.)



Meanwhile, here is a game: Each of the authors in the fantasy bundle was interviewed by one of the other authors. Can you tell which quote goes with which author? Just take a guess :-)

Here are the authors and their books

1. Brad Beaulieu, The Winds of Khalakovo
2. Sherwood Smith, Lhind the Thief
3. CJ Brightley, The King's Sword
4. Judith Tarr, Arrows of the Sun
5. Francesca Forrest, Pen Pal
6. Scott Marlowe, The Five Elements
7. Blair MacGregor, Sand of Bone
8. MCA Hogarth, The Worth of a Shell

And here are the quotations from their interviews:

A. I got fixated on having to follow the Chosen One through the entire narrative. It took me a long time to figure out that there was no chosen one, not really.

B. When you write in genre, readers have expectations based on the structures and tropes of the genre. You can play around with those, but you seriously have to respect them.

C. writers will often develop much, much more than actually shows up on the page, and that’s the approach I took here. I wanted it to be a rich world.

D. The questions of loyalty and honor and promises kept in the face of moral ambiguity, ethical questions, and brutal combat... All of those remain.

E. I loathe helplessness in real life and in fiction. I enjoy peril only if the threatened characters have a glimmer of agency.

F. I’m intrigued by the different ways throughout history that people and society have dealt with war and the emotional aftereffects of trauma.

G. For example, we all know electrical current travels through a wire. In my world, instead of wires there are tubules, and instead of electricity, a wide array of energy types, such as alchemical, elemental, emotional, magical, and others.

H. The basic story stayed the same: two seemingly helpless people whose friendship helps make them both heroes.

So--which letters go with which numbers? (If you want to cheat, blairmacg has all the interviews linked in this entry)