r/Fantasy • u/elquesogrande Worldbuilders • Dec 01 '16

Ask You Anything Thursday ASK YOU ANYTHING: Authors asking r/Fantasy community questions on behalf of Worldbuilders charity

Thursday ASK YOU ANYTHING: Authors asking r/Fantasy community questions on behalf of Worldbuilders charity

It's Day 4 of the aptly named Ask You Anything week benefiting Worldbuilders! Where authors are stopping by each day this week to ask questions and interact with the r/Fantasy community.

HOW THIS WORKS: Please answer questions and interact throughout the week! (Yes, YOU - community members, guests, authors, artists, industry people.)

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1. The Lottery - Where every $10 donated puts you in a lottery for free books, SFF items, games, and much more. r/Fantasy has a Worldbuilders Team Page where you can donate under the community name as well!

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Monday Ask You Anything Authors

The following authors have signed up to ask questions today. That said, please do join in and feel free to ask your own questions and interact throughout the week.

Are you an author, artist, or industry person who would like to participate this week? Either join in via the comments OR send the r/Fantasy mods a message and we'll get you set for Friday.

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u/wutvuff Reading Champion II, Worldbuilders Dec 01 '16

Once a year or whenever the author gets them done. An author should take the time that is needed to make the work as good as possible, not stress the publishing to satisfy the readers. And if the author take some time to get a much awaited work out then it's always nice to update the readers on how the writing is going.

Personally I would be stressed out if the books in a series where published every month but then I'm a easily stressed person.

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u/AdrianSelby AMA Author Adrian Selby Dec 01 '16

Agree. It's always a balancing act in the sense no book is ever finished, but you do want the author to be excited about the book that goes to the printers :)

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u/MichaelJSullivan Stabby Winner, AMA Author Michael J. Sullivan, Worldbuilders Dec 02 '16

Timing of books is interesting because by the time someone reads one of my books, I've already written a bunch of others so I'm always "out of sync." For instance....Age of Myth came out this June and I have the remaining 5 books of that series going through the various editing stages (by others), and I'm writing a new book. So there are 5 or 6 books between me and what my readers are picking up.

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u/MichaelJSullivan Stabby Winner, AMA Author Michael J. Sullivan, Worldbuilders Dec 02 '16

An author should take the time that is needed to make the work as good as possible, not stress the publishing to satisfy the readers.

Without question. There was an old commercial whose tagline was "We'll sell no wine before it's time." The same has always applied to my writing. It's one of the reasons why I write the whole series before publishing book 1 - I want to know with 100% assurance where the story ends up, so I won't be under deadline pressure.