Well, I know it sounds funny -
I ain’t in it for a pile of dimes.
I just want a best-seller,
Wanna see it in the New York Times.
Want a best-seller, yeah.
I’m gonna be an Overnight Sensation.
Thanks, and perhaps apologies, to:
And if you wonder what on Earth I’m talking about (have you met me?) let me direct you to a modest little fantasy novel I like to call The Dinosaur Lords. And it ain’t on Earth.
By the way, I am progressing a bit slowly yet, yet surely, on the second book, currently entitled The Dinosaur Princes. It’s been taking some expansion of my existing synopsis, and (thanks, Leo!) some restructuring based on a sudden Mad Insight as to the flow and intrinsic coolness of the book.
It is cool. Please have no doubt of that. It’s knights riding dinosaurs.
Let me reiterate that.
Knights. Riding dinosaurs. Riding armored freaking dinosaurs.
(And thanks to the excellent Ian Tregillis – buy his book! – and pre-order his next one! – because they’re awesome! – for flipping me that phrase in the first place.)
You want it. I want it. A I was reminding myself today (I am working hard to break the habit of suppressing this little fact): it’s fun. It’s all about the fun.
Well, we’re getting there. Now if I can just persuade The Editor to disgorge the damn notes on the first book….
You’re welcome, sir. I tell it like it is!
I still hold out hope that you’ll write the scene where Karyl shreds some sick riffs on an air guitar.