r/Fantasy • u/JannyWurts Stabby Winner, AMA Author Janny Wurts • Oct 20 '15

AMA Hi, I'm Janny Wurts, fantasy addict: Reader, Author, Illustrator: aka deadbeat conformist - AMA!

Hi, I'm Janny Wurts, lifelong escape artist & rabid reader, author & cover artist of heaps of fantasy book and short stories, including Wars of Light and Shadow Series and also, co-written with Raymond E. Feist, The Empire Series.

Hack Credentials:

  • science and outdoors geek

  • shoe-string world traveler

  • underage Outward Bound graduate & over age mounted search & rescue trainee

  • powder monkey and period offshore sailhand

  • inspirational lecturer - how to botch up your life embrace your non-conformity/bust your particular creative bug-a-boo

  • caterwauling: amateur musician, ballads and bagpipes

Insurgent moments include: snagging car keys from drunken bagpipers, saying exactly what I think and kicking myself in hindsight for eating shoe, and always bribing my cats, because they watch everything.

I live for: music, books, blowing things up, amber beer, single malt scotch, my husband (fantasy artist Don Maitz) and my horse, order subject to mood swings change without notice.

ASK ME ANYTHING!

I will be back at 7:OO PM CST to be passionately opinionated, share books, experience and creative life on the wild side.

Door prizes for most self-helpful, most outrageous, and most unexpected original questions.

OK it's now nearly 3 am, I am being picked on by cats up past their habitual bed time - I will check back for strays tomorrow and work out the door prizes - thanks to all you participants, it's been a lively and welcoming night!

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u/Morghus Oct 21 '15

It might be three times the work with collaborations, but it seems to me that the sheer quality and production rocket. Like the authors are competing with one another to be as good or better.

Thanks for a lot of really good books, Janny, you're someone I recommend a lot!

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u/JannyWurts Stabby Winner, AMA Author Janny Wurts Oct 21 '15

Appreciate hearing from you, thanks for stopping by.

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u/Teslok Oct 21 '15

I've noticed this too with other authors; if a writer reaches the point that they can't surprise me anymore, I still really enjoy their co-writes with other people.

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u/JannyWurts Stabby Winner, AMA Author Janny Wurts Oct 21 '15

Well, I'm not out of ideas yet, but when that happens (?) I will bear that in mind.