Sunday, March 22, 2009

Piers Anthony!


Hi Guys,
Was rereading some fantasy novels from my collection (Golem in the Gears, Vale of the Vole) and did a Google search for "Piers Anthony" (Writer of the awesome Xanth Series 34 novels and growing).
At 74 he's written some amazing books and has an EXCELLENT newsletter about the process of writing and editing your own work:
http://www.hipiers.com/newsletter.html

I also sent him this e-mail:

Hi Piers,
Love your work!
Just finished reading your newsletter Feblueberry 2009 it was great, I'm a film maker but I find it's the same creative process as writing a book.
Your diamond in the rough metaphor was excellent, I spent 6 years working on a feature length film that ended up with a rough draft edit of 6 hours!!!
But SLOWLY bit by bit i have it down to 1 hour and 45 minutes and am currently sending it off to Festivals.
Lately I've been writing/directing/producing online web shows, recently I've been working on a Fantasy Action web series and would ABSOLUTELY LOVE your opinion of it!
http://www.spellfury.com

A HUGE fan,

Travis Gordon
www.spellfury.com

HE RESPONDED!!!

Thank you for your note. We have printed it for Piers Anthony and he gave us the following answer for you:
I'm on dialup. It took 15 minutes just to get your site loaded, and more time to get any images. But it does look like fun. I was Visitor #5235.

Piers Anthony
www.HiPiers.com

It's great he took the time to go to my site, nice to be in communication with a writing LEGEND!!!

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