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Interviews: Superstars Writing Seminar - Mark Grayson
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Date
May 2nd, 2012
Type
Paraphrased
Location
Las Vegas, NV
TourCon
Superstars Writing Seminar
Reporter
Mark Grayson
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Mark Grayson
I talked to Brandon last week at a quick signing he did for locals on his newsletter list after he was done with a writing seminar in Las Vegas.Brandon Sanderson
He indicated that [Bayrd's POV] was not the part of this prologue that RJ wrote. Meaning that scene was his.
MARK GRAYSON
I thought he did a really good job with it. Very RJ-esque in my opinion.
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Terez (8 May 2012)
Can you supply date, town, and bookstore?
Mark Grayson
This past Wednesday May 2nd in Las Vegas in the lobby of the Golden Nugget hotel. He was in town as one of the guests/teachers of a writers convention. He squeezed in a quick signing for local fans. If you signed up for his newsletter and gave your location as in the Vegas area you got an email from Peter about the signing. There were 8 or 9 of us there so it was pretty cool.
Brandon Sanderson
He let us ask some questions but didn't give any new details that aren't already out there. The info on the prologue came up as he was talking about his progress revising the book and how the ending was pretty much all RJ and didn't even need to be polished. He then mentioned that parts of the prologues of all 3 books had been written or dictated by RJ but the scene that was released was not one of them.
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Mark Grayson ()
I'll try to sum up a few other things I remember:
Brandon Sanderson
We talked about if he laughed when fans were guessing who wrote what and getting it way wrong. He said the story he could tell about that was someone looking at the chapter titles to tGS and saying they could tell that Brandon wrote those when of course Harriet has named all the chapters since the start.
He was disappointed that DKS couldn't finished the last cover even though he really thinks Whelan is the best fantasy artist around. He likened it to the same as it being too bad that he had to finish the series instead of RJ.
He talked some more about how he felt Mat was the hardest character to get write because he's pretty complicated. His thoughts don't always match up with his actions and it was hard to strike the right tone.
He knows that his action sequences don't sound like RJ's. He said he just doesn't have the real world experience that RJ did as a combat soldier so he just writes them as the best action scenes that he can.
He said Perrin was his favorite character so one of his goals was to redeem the character a bit and make him awesome again.
I asked about his Alcatraz books and he said there will be one more but it's not high on the priority list and will be several years. He also said the Scholastic distribution wasn't great and he's working on buying back the rights and bringing the series to TOR for wider distribution and ebook release.
Mark Grayson
Stuff like that. Nothing that hasn't been covered before.
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