{"id":3183,"date":"2010-03-08T10:06:23","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T18:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/?p=3183"},"modified":"2010-03-08T10:06:23","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T18:06:23","slug":"an-aside-sam-sykes-interviews-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/news\/an-aside-sam-sykes-interviews-me\/","title":{"rendered":"An Aside | Sam Sykes Interviews… Me!"},"content":{"rendered":"\"A<\/a>\n

Sam Sykes, author of the soon-to-be-released Tome of the Undergates<\/strong><\/a>, has been rounding up some of his most hated<\/del> favourite bloggers and pinning them down for a few questions. Last week, I was the victim.<\/p>\n

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So, let\u2019s talk about your blog for a bit. You\u2019re pretty connected to the news of the fantasy world, able to get interviews with such greats as Blake Charlton and even deign to speak with such no-names like Joe Abercrombie, your reviews tend to be viewed as honest and affable and you\u2019re a writer yourself. You\u2019re officially one of the big names in blogging. Do you think your success is undeserved? And if not, don\u2019t you think you should? What\u2019s next for A Dribble of Ink?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Okay, first I should clear some things up about Abercrombie. He came to me. Both times, on hands and knees, no less. I don\u2019t know why he was so desperate, his books are pretty popular, but he hounded me excessively, begging me to allow him on the blog.<\/p>\n

One night, at three in the morning, I got a phone call. On the other end, through the static of the trans-atlantic phonelines, I could hear heavy breath, like the person was breathing only through their mouth, and the gentle scrape of a comb running through a well-tended neck-beard.<\/p>\n

He uttered a single phrase, which I will not appear here, that sent a chill down my spine and haunting my dreamscapes with visions of Logen, Friendly and Ferro having unending threesomes. Ever since then, he\u2019s been allowed to come on my blog and rant, in hopes that the dreams may one day cease.<\/p>\n

As for the success of my blog, well, I work hard on it and pour a very substantial part of myself into it, so in that respect, yeah, I think the success is deserved. That said, my official answer is: \u2018I\u2019m nothing more than a humble guy just doin\u2019 his thing. I didn\u2019t even know people read my blog, I guess that\u2019s kinda neat!\u2019. There, now I don\u2019t sound like an asshole.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s next? Onwards and upwards. This year I hope to cover more short fiction and conduct more interviews. Hopefully there\u2019s good news on my own writing, also. Then I can turn A Dribble of Ink into a platform to shill my own material. That would be good, no?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

You can read the full interview HERE<\/a>. Alternatively, the tables were turned when I interviewed Sykes HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sam Sykes, author of the soon-to-be-released Tome of the Undergates, has been rounding up some of his most hated favourite bloggers and pinning them down for a few questions. Last week, I was the victim. So, let\u2019s talk about your blog for a bit. You\u2019re pretty connected to the news of the fantasy world, able… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n