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Books / Re: What are you reading, part 3
« on: January 09, 2010, 06:59:42 AM »
I just finished rereading The Hobbit and am now on to a reread of The Lord of the Rings.
"Magic is what makes fantasy fantastic," someone says, "you can't apply rules to them or else it loses wonder!" I respond, "Sure, but if you want to write them you will certainly want to know how they work." Writing is all about execution, and I find applying some basic laws of physics to magic systems make them more understandable and realistic. Here, I'm going to outline my basic method for developing a magic system.
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My hardback cover of Name of the Wind split on me before I had even read it once. Man, I wanted to scream at that. Inferior binding on hardback books absolutely sucks.
Finished American Gods about 10 minutes ago.... one word.... AWESOME!!!!
Do that many people really buy books from Walmart and other such stores, though? (I'm not criticizing you; I genuinely don't know the numbers.)
Even if they do, if the choices are between selling less books and selling a whole bunch of books at a horrendous loss, which would be the worst proposition?
Also, this is why I will never, ever buy books from Wal-mart et all.
Anyone know how much he makes when he sells a kindle/ebook version vs a dead tree version. (Since I paid $10, and there were no real production costs past the usual copyediting, I'm hoping that he and TOR get a good portion of this. Anyone know numbers?