“ King Jaehaerys once told me that madness and greatness are two sides of the same coin. Every time a new Targaryen is born, he said, the gods toss the coin in the air & the world holds its breath to see how it will land.”
I promised myself I wasn’t going to make a post here on the blog about it… but then I got to be part of the coolest house in all of A Song of Ice and Fire lore. So, well… here we are. You may now cower before me.
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I know… I know! Another post about Patrick Rothfuss, brilliant author and hot topic here on A Dribble of Ink, but what can I say? I love the man, the rest of the Fantasy world loves the man, and my interview with him (Part One | Part Two) is still seeing a generous amount of traffic. Today’s edition of the “Patrick Rothfuss Tribune” covers his recent victory at “The Quill Book Awards”. Rothfuss’ first novel, The Name of the Wind, was just named the “Best Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror Novel of the Year“! The best thing about this is that Rothfuss’ novel is automatically eligible for the “Quill” for novel of the year… and it’s a public vote! Definitely a worthy contender for the award, though I’m curious about them being held so early in the year… aren’t there still several great books coming out before 2007 ends?
You can see the whole list HERE.
I thought this was pretty cool. I was checking my blog stats today and noticed several visitors came by way of a french web site named elbalkin.net. Curious how they found my way from there to my blog, I clicked the link and found a nice surprise!
Click HERE!
Yep, that’s my interview with Patrick Rothfuss… but translated into French! Pretty cool, eh? That would take one dedicated Patrick Rothfuss fan, our interview wasn’t short!
Tobias Buckell’s got class.
Not only did he have this interview back safely in my hands only hours after sending him the questions, but he was also kind enough to send copies of his first two novels, Crystal Rain and Ragamuffin, in a nice padded envelope with a handwritten note thanking me for taking a look at his novels.
Buckell has a great personal web site where he runs a wicked blog (that is updated much more often than A Dribble of Ink, I must grudgingly admit…), and has a whole bunch of cool content. The best of which includes the entire first third of Crystal Rain and Ragamuffin (found HERE and HERE, respectively). He’s been a pleasure to work with (and his novel is pretty darn good, too!), so I hope you have as much fun reading the interview as I had conducting it!
Enjoy.
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I’ve always thought of music as a deeply personal adventure: everyone’s tastes differ; everyone has deeply hidden guilty pleasures *coughjustintimberlakecough*; and everyone has strong emotional attachments to certain songs. Music evokes many, many memories for me, particularly about novels I was reading at the same time as I was deeply listening to a particular band or album.
“My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.”
Edith Sitwell (1887 – 1964)
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