Category Archives: Interviews

Published: March 28, 2008

Interview part II and a local convention.

Part two of the Peter Hodges interview is now live over HERE, for those of you who are into that sort of thing….

Also, for those of you that are hanging around here in Central Wisconsin, I’ll be at a little one-day convention in Wausau tomorrow. You can find some details HERE.

And lastly, for those of you on Facebook, we’re having a bit of a shindig to celebrate the paperback release of the book. There will be cake* and fabulous prizes for people who are interested in participating. So stop on by if you’re interested.

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* (The cake is a lie.)

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Published: March 24, 2008

Interview with Peter Hodges.

I did another interview. If you’re interested, it’s available for your delectation OVER HERE.

Enjoy,

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Published: January 30, 2008

Interview – Illusion TV

Bravo on yesterday’s SAT questions. While I enjoyed them all, I actually laughed at “Kvothe is to Harry Potter as pudding is to cats.” That was probably my favorite, though I did enjoy the buffy the vampire slayer one as well.

I had a longer post planned for today, but it’s delayed due to a digital camera spasm of a mysterious sort. Hopefully it’ll be sorted out by tomorrow…

For now, if you’re bored, you can go enjoy the most recent interview HERE.

Later,

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Published: December 21, 2007

Fried Rice and a new Interview….

So the other day I order some Chinese food, because having someone bring food directly to your house and eating it in your jammies is perhaps the most decadent pleasure that exists.

I ordered some food for my girlfriend as well. This is partly because I’m sensitive and thoughtful and awesome. But, truthfully, it’s also because if I didn’t, she would just eat half of mine and then I’d be sad and hungry.

Just as the food arrived, my girlfriend called me and told me she’d be late getting home from work. I tell her that I’ll wait dinner for her, again because of the awesome, and resist the urge to open the bag to get at the egg rolls. Instead I set the paper bag on my bed and cover it up with a blanket to keep it warm until she gets home.

Eventually she does, and we eat it, and it’s lovely.

But that’s not the end of the story. The end of the story is that now my blankets smell like chicken fried rice. You’d think this would be a bad thing, but not so much. Truth is, it’s kinda nice, actually.

Ah yes. There you go. Another little peek into my life.

Why am I writing about this? Hell, I don’t know. Why do I write anything? I suppose because it amuses me, and because I hope it might amuse you too.

If you’re looking for more odd ramblings of mine, you can find them in the newest interview I’ve done over HERE at the Book Swede.

We talk, among other things, about monkeys.

Later all,

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Published: December 13, 2007

New Interview: Concurring Opinions.

So last night I had a dream with Neil Gaiman in it. I can’t for the life of me remember the details, but I’m pretty sure it wasn’t a sex dream. Pretty sure.

What does this mean? Well, it’s probably just because I met him recently, and I’m re-reading Sandman at the moment. But if I dream about him two more times… I’m pretty sure that means he’s my spirit animal. Which wouldn’t be too bad, all things considered.

It’s been a while since I’ve done an interview, but a couple weeks ago a fellow named Dave Hoffman contacted me and asked if I’d like to do a Q & A of a slightly different sort for Concurring Opinions, a legal blog.

He asked a bunch of questions about how the legal system works in my world, some ethics and morality stuff too. And, of course, we chatted about other stuff, writing, teaching, worldbuilding, etc. It was fun, and I got to talk about a lot of things that haven’t come up in other interviews.

Anyway, if you’re interested in hearing me ramble on, the interview is OVER HERE.

Share and Enjoy,

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Published: September 6, 2007

My Awfulness…

In the last set of comments, Mr. Puddifoot called me out. He said that the book I displayed was actually a promotional cover slapped over the top of a plain-old copy of The Name of the Wind.

He was right. The photo was nothing but base trickery on my part, a deception born of my dark, tarlike heart. All I can do is ask for your forgiveness.

Believe me, if book two were that close to being done, you’d be seeing it on the shelves a lot sooner than July of 2008.

As a penance for my horrible tricksyness. I offer up the following:

First, a picture of the UK versions of the book. I just got these in the mail a day or two ago. I think they look pretty cool. Apparently over there, they release the hardcover and the trade paperback at the same time. Go figure.

(You can click the picture to make it bigger, if you’re into that sort of thing.)

Can you see the subtle difference in the two covers? I didn’t notice it while I was taking the pictures, only when I was posting them up here afterwards….

You know that the UK hardcover sells for 19 pounds? That’s almost 40 bucks. I guess I won’t cringe so much at the thought of paying 25 for a hardcover here in the states after this….

Also, I’ve got a new multi-lingual set of interviews for a website called Phantastik-Couch. Bringing my four years of high-school German to bear, I can tell you that this translates as “Fantastic Couch,” or quite possibly, “Fantasy Couch.”

They were nice enough to post the interview up both in ENGLISH and GERMAN, depending on which way you swing.

Back to revisions for me, and sorry about toying with your emotions yesterday. I promise it won’t happen again unless… Well, unless I think of something really funny.

Fondly,

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Published: July 16, 2007

New Interview: Straight From the Barrel.

For those of you who are into Q & A interviews, you can find the newest one HERE.

We talk about world building and… um…. Clowns? Honestly I can’t remember what I say on these things after I’m done with them. So your guess is probably as good as mine….

And for those of you that have e-mailing and asking, yes I do have a facebook account. That’s really me on there. So, feel free to ADD ME, if you like. The more the merrier, as far as I’m concerned.

If you’re looking for the deluxe facebook experience, you could sign up for the facebook group someone created a while back… It’s called: PAT ROTHFUSS’S LEGION OF FANATICAL MINIONS.

And it’s back to revisions for me….

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