Was that it? I recall something about how she was preparing to fuck him to death (or perhaps simply kill him) for intruding onto her turf, but he impresses her with his burgeoning yet powerful proto-wizard skills of seeing into the true nature of things and commanding the elements. Subsequently, she takes him under her wing and he ends up spending a lot of time with her.
I can see how if you are cranking out “thrillers” some might expect a book each year. Yet I don’t see people bitching about not enough Thomas Pynchon. OTOH, if you know how to write then 5, let alone 10, years ought to be enough to write a novel. Trilogies and such should be more or less planned out from the beginning, lest the author decide in the middle that he or she be unenthusiastic about the whole thing.
Now, Bernard Cornwell, that’s an author with work ethic, you can rest assured you’ll have a new Uthred book in your hands every single year.
Yeah, I had a momentary reaction of “Oh no—what about him?” when I saw the thread title.
And I also thought, “Yeah, speaking of people who really need to write the next book in their fantasy series…”
Not quite as egregious, but Jasper Fforde also has several series that I’m waiting for the next book in.
Yeah, pretty much this.
The first book is standalone enough that I’m tempted to advise people to read just that one and stop there, at least until the rest of the series appears.
Although, work ethic doesn’t necessarily mean that series get finished quickly. Doesn’t he kind of jump around from series to series?
No one can fault Stephen King’s level of productivity, but it took him awhile to get the Dark Tower finished.
I, for one, am starting to suspect that Harlan Ellison is never going to release The Last Dangerous Visions.
Harry Turtledove is another example of an author who sticks to a schedule and publishes the books he promised.
He works hard, but unfortunately for me, I feel like his Stormlight Archive masterwork is his least interesting series.
He’s going to dedicate himself to a big “thick book epic” series I don’t want. I prefer Mistborn series books by a mile.
To be fair, it’s very heavily implied that he’s an unreliable narrator.
I think that’s what I settled on at some point, that he was really this useless little dweeb making all that shit up. It amused me, but wasn’t really satisfying.
Damn, that was eight years ago. sob
So, just ftr, Steven Erickson is an author who writes books that can fell a wildebeest and he does it in a thoroughly brisk fashion. You can expect a few thousand words from him every year or two. For those who like that sort of thing.
Also, the entire Malazan Book of the Fallen is available as one Kindle book, for $80, which is a deal but also sort of terrifying. Worth it though.
she actually made a second? which she swore shed never do…
Erikson is an absolute animal with the pen, a big reason why Malazan was (borderline) coherent over ten books [some might disagree with that, but it never unravelled].
There was a character in Neil Stephenson’s reamde who was a parody of an Erikson fantasy word machine that was a close-ish anagram, I wondered if he was taking the piss a little bit with it.
From wiki - Devin “Skeletor” Skraelin, an absurdly prolific pulp fantasy author under long-term contract to fill in narrative details of T’Rain.
He had a long Twitter feed about it (I can’t link to it, because I gave up Twitter) in which he talked about the breakup of his marriage and how his success overwhelmed him to the point of panic and depression. I too, and eagerly awaiting Thorne of Emberlain. Go Locke Lamora!
My complaint is that I read the first two.
Well I pretty much gave up on Lynch ever publishing anything else. Seems like he did publish a prequel novella - Locke Lamora and the Bottled Serpent, in late 2024 and early 2025 split between issues #40 & #41 of Grindmark Magazine, which you can purchase online on Amazon. It’s on my list.
And apparently he also announced last year that he will also publish, sometime in 2025, three other novellas, collectively titled The Road to Emberlain, which will serve as a taste before his 4th novel The Thorn of Emberlain is released.
So I guess, I need to pay more attention.