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Tardily seeking advice
May. 25th, 2011 08:26 pmWell, maybe I've made up my mind and am only looking for validation.
I'm part of a group reading at Wiscon. The rest of them (David Levine, Seanan McGuire, Sarah Monette, and Cat Valente, it's at four pm on Saturday, do come, because they are all amazing writers!) very kindly let me in even though they had enough people already, but this means that everybody's time is quite limited.
What I would like to do is to read the (new) prologue to the Shrunken version of the Amazing Expanding and Shrinking Novel. It's a letter, in Ruth's voice, so it's fun to read and, I think, funny; it also gives a bit of an idea of what her half of the book is like. However, it contains a tremendous wealth of spoilers for the Secret Country trilogy. I don't want to upset people, but those books have been out since 1989 and were reissued at the beginning of this century, so I'm not sure who all hasn't read them who still wants to.
I am very short of other material because I do not write things that move quickly. I've been through the Amazing Book and also through the partially-written Liavek novel, and even with cuts, there isn't anything else that really has good narrative movement to it.
How upset would you be, o my readers (readers of this LJ, I mean; there's no need for you to have read any of my books) if you were read a prologue like that at a convention? I am going to use a few seconds of my allotted time to provide a warning; how disgruntled would you be at thinking you'd better leave for twelve minutes and come back to hear the rest of the reading?
Pamela
I'm part of a group reading at Wiscon. The rest of them (David Levine, Seanan McGuire, Sarah Monette, and Cat Valente, it's at four pm on Saturday, do come, because they are all amazing writers!) very kindly let me in even though they had enough people already, but this means that everybody's time is quite limited.
What I would like to do is to read the (new) prologue to the Shrunken version of the Amazing Expanding and Shrinking Novel. It's a letter, in Ruth's voice, so it's fun to read and, I think, funny; it also gives a bit of an idea of what her half of the book is like. However, it contains a tremendous wealth of spoilers for the Secret Country trilogy. I don't want to upset people, but those books have been out since 1989 and were reissued at the beginning of this century, so I'm not sure who all hasn't read them who still wants to.
I am very short of other material because I do not write things that move quickly. I've been through the Amazing Book and also through the partially-written Liavek novel, and even with cuts, there isn't anything else that really has good narrative movement to it.
How upset would you be, o my readers (readers of this LJ, I mean; there's no need for you to have read any of my books) if you were read a prologue like that at a convention? I am going to use a few seconds of my allotted time to provide a warning; how disgruntled would you be at thinking you'd better leave for twelve minutes and come back to hear the rest of the reading?
Pamela
