There Really Is No Reason For This Post

[snurri]

Whoa! The book is up on Amazon UK! The date is wrong, and stuff, but hey. GO RIGHT AHEAD AND ORDER.

It's also up on Amazon Japan, which I cannot explain.

Product of random phrase googling: Anti-American Taiwanese Children's Rhymes.

I would hire this attorney.

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Comments

[snurri.livejournal.com]

You'll see it here first!

[devilwrites.livejournal.com]

Can't wait! :)

So here's a question for you, since I feel relatively new to your blog: did you watch the first season of Heroes, and if so, what are your thoughts on it, since you're also writing about superheroes that, according to the Amazon.uk blurb, may very well stop a tragedy?

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Well, first I should say that you shouldn't make any assumptions based on the blurb. The book is about power, but it's also about the limits of power; while real-world events intersect with the story, I wouldn't have felt comfortable changing history.

To answer your main question, though, I haven't really watched Heroes, although I've heard good things about it. I may check it out on DVD when it's available. When I found out that show was coming out, I was sort of worried about overlap, since there are some superficial similarities with the premise, at least. (I fully expect that someone is going to accuse me of ripping off the series, even though I wrote the book four years before it appeared.) So I didn't watch it from the beginning, and I didn't want to pick it up halfway through.

[devilwrites.livejournal.com]

Oh, I totally understand. :)

To be perfectly honest, I never watched Heroes either, simply because it was too similar in my mind to existing shows (like The 4400) and comics (Rising Stars and X-Men come to mind). I might watch it one day, but I want to see where the series goes in the eyes of its fans, and if it trully lives up to its first-season hype.

But one good thing about it, when your book comes out, you can have interesting discussions about when you got the idea for your novel, when you started working on it, when you sold it, etc., and how that compares to the concepts of televisions shows and their production.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Heroes definitely has an X-Men feel to it.

I can certainly talk about all that timing stuff, but I'm not sure how interested most folks will be :-)