Month: April 2010
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The Man, the Beast, and the Nature of Desire (Raven’s Ladder, Day 4)
The CSFF Tour for this month is officially over, but before we leave Raven’s Ladder, I want to explore one of its themes. I also have a book to give away, so it’s time for a contest! Scroll all the way down to the bottom of this post for contest rules and deadline. Warning: there…
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Interview with Jeffrey Overstreet, Part 2 (Raven’s Ladder Day 3)
And yesterday’s discussion continues, this time touching on editing, plot, fantasy as a genre, and influences. Enjoy! Rachel: You once mentioned on Facebook that copyediting is one of your favourite parts of revision: I think you said you would turn the whole Auralia Thread into a long prose-poem if you could. Can you comment on…
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Interview with Jeffrey Overstreet, Part 1 (Raven’s Ladder, Day 2)
A slight change to the planned schedule: as I revisited this interview, I realized that it is long and rich and worthy of being posted over more than one day. So this week my touring days are going to extend to Thursday, methinks :). Today we discuss allegory, art, religion, and shockwyrms. The interview begins:…
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CSFF Tour: Raven’s Ladder
Raven’s Ladder is the third book in the four-book Auralia Thread, a startlingly poetic, deeply spiritual fantasy series that begins with Auralia’s Colors and Cyndere’s Midnight The story dawns on a displaced people: The people of House Abascar, led by the young king Cal-Raven and his faithful guardsman Tabor Jan, have moved into a network…