{"id":4653,"date":"2010-09-30T11:28:58","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T19:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/?p=4653"},"modified":"2010-09-30T11:30:41","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T19:30:41","slug":"an-aside-how-ken-scholess-antiphon-became-liza-desrocherss-personal-demons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/news\/an-aside-how-ken-scholess-antiphon-became-liza-desrocherss-personal-demons\/","title":{"rendered":"An Aside | How Ken Scholes’s ‘Antiphon’ became Liza Desrochers’s ‘Personal Demons’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Antiphon<\/a>From the Tor Newsletter:<\/p>\n

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Readers clicking through the Kindle edition of Ken Scholes’s Antiphon, book three in the Psalms of Isaak, got a strange surprise in chapter 16: the book suddenly became Personal Demons , a new urban fantasy by Lisa Desrochers. Phone calls were made and new files uploaded, but Ken Scholes had a funny thought: how would the gypsy king Rudolfo really deal with the unexpected appearance of Lisa’s teenage trio? Thus was born chapter 15.5, “Intersections and Interlopers.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

And and excerpt from the chapter:<\/p>\n

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A cold wind moaned outside the command tent and Rudolfo blessed the warmth of his small furnace and the warmed cup of firespice he held loosely in his hands even as he considered the girl who stood with Lysias before him.<\/p>\n

She was fetching enough, if young. Her garb was unlike anything he\u2019d seen before and certainly not appropriate for deep winter in the northern reaches of the Ninefold Forest. She was short, with fair skin, long blond hair and blue eyes. And she wore clothing entirely unfamiliar to him. Her top\u2014a sleeveless cotton bit\u2014revealed more skin than was appropriate for winter or for most audiences with a king. And her pants were tight and made from a faded blue material. Her shoes were like nothing he\u2019d seen before. But still, fetching she was despite her odd dress. With a few more summers behind her, she\u2019d certainly become the type of woman he\u2019d have pursued. Of course, since Jin Li Tam had fallen into his life he\u2019d lost his appetite for any others, much to the disappointment of his former lovers. But there was something in the way she stood before him now that reminded him of his red-headed queen.<\/p>\n

His eyes narrowed and he took a sip of the liquor, savoring its burn as it trickled down his throat. \u201cTell me again,\u201d he said slowly. \u201cWho are you and what are you doing in my forest?\u201d<\/p>\n

The slightest trembling of her lower lip was the only telltale sign of her fear. When she spoke, her voice was clear. \u201cMy name is Frannie Cavanaugh….\u201d Her words failed and he watched her find them quickly. \u201cAnd I don\u2019t know.\u201d She paused. \u201cI\u2019m not even sure what forest this is.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Hah, this is absolutely classic. What a fun way for Tor Books<\/em> and the two authors to work through a tough situation! You can read the whole chapter<\/a>, which successfully spawns the broken Kindle version into it’s own spin-off series, on Tor.com<\/a>. It’s good fun even if you’ve never read either of the authors before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the Tor Newsletter: Readers clicking through the Kindle edition of Ken Scholes’s Antiphon, book three in the Psalms of Isaak, got a strange surprise in chapter 16: the book suddenly became Personal Demons , a new urban fantasy by Lisa Desrochers. Phone calls were made and new files uploaded, but Ken Scholes had a… 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-4653","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\n