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For the first time in 14 years, the Eagles are looking for a head coach. According to Howard Eskin of FOX 29 and WIP radio, owner Jeffrey Lurie's initial list has five names on it.
The candidates are, per Eskin, Penn State coach Bill O'Brien, Falcons offensive coordinator Dirk Koetter, 49ers offensive coordinator Greg Roman, Colts offensive coordinator Bruce Arians, and Oregon coach Chip Kelly.
All six candidates are offensive coaches. They also are all white, which means that under the Rooney Rule the Eagles will have to interview at least one minority candidate. Which will move the list to at least six candidates.


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Catalyst::Delta - Overview of changes between versions of Catalyst
This is an overview of the user-visible changes to Catalyst in version 5.8.
Please see Catalyst::Upgrading for a full description of how changes in the framework may affect your application.
Below is a brief list of features which have been deprecated in this release:
- ::[MVC]:: style naming scheme has been deprecated and will warn
- NEXT is deprecated for all applications and components, use MRO::Compat
- Dispatcher methods which are an implementation detail made private, public versions now warn.
- MyApp->plugin method is deprecated, use Catalyst::Model::Adaptor instead.
- __PACKAGE__->mk_accessors() is supported for backward compatibility only, use Moose attributes instead in new code.
- Use of Catalyst::Base now warns
New features
The development server restarter has been improved to be compatible with immutable Moose classes, and also to optionally use B::Hooks::OP::Check::StashChange to handle more complex application layouts correctly.
$c->uri_for_action method.
Give a private path to the Catalyst action you want to create a URI for.
Log levels have been made additive.
- Change to use Sub::Exporter.
- Support mocking multiple virtual hosts
- New methods like action_ok and action_redirect to write more compact tests
New print method which prints @data to the output stream, separated by $,. This lets you pass the response object to functions that want to write to an IO::Handle.
Added code method as an alias for
Consequences of the Moose back end
Components are fully compatible with Moose, and all Moose features, such as method modifiers, attributes, roles, BUILD and BUILDARGS methods are fully supported and may be used in components and applications.
Many reusable extensions which would previously have been plugins or base classes are better implemented as Moose roles.
MooseX::MethodAttributes::Inheritable is used to contain action attributes. This means that attributes are represented in the MOP, and decouples action creation from attributes.
There is a reasonable API in Catalyst::Controller for working with and registering actions, allowing a controller sub-class to replace subroutine attributes for action declarations with an alternate syntax.
Refactored capturing of $app from Catalyst::Controller into Catalyst::Component::ApplicationAttribute for easier reuse in other components.
Your application class is forced to become immutable at the end of compilation.
Bug fixes
Don't ignore SIGCHLD while handling requests with the development server, so that system() and other ways of creating child processes work as expected.
Fixes for FastCGI when used with IIS 6.0
Fix a bug in uri_for which could cause it to generate paths with multiple slashes in them.
Fix a bug in Catalyst::Stats, stopping garbage being inserted into the stats if a user calls begin => but no end

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Nicola Morgan, the Crabbit Old Bat, is an award-winning author of around 90 books across many genres. For the last few years, she has given crabbitly honest advice to determined writers, here and in her books, WRITE TO BE PUBLISHED, WRITE A GREAT SYNOPSIS, DEAR AGENT and TWEET RIGHT.
Thursday, 7 January 2010
I was reading some of the first posts just now, and remembering how I felt getting my very first comments, and how extraordinarily quickly so many of you found me. Echo Freer and Tom Vowler were amongst the first commenters, and you and others are still here. I started with four posts that day, to get the thing going. I remember I had the idea that it would end up being a set of resources, more like a strangely-organised book than a normal linear blog. Well, I have a feeling it ended up being something akin to both. One problem now is that there's so much info on it [more than a quarter of a million words!] that it's now hard to find what you're looking for, and Blogger's search facility is useless for the older stuff, which is why I've had a lot of suggestions to turn it all into a proper book.
Anyway, what's this party, then? Well, it's a blog party, which means we're all going to come visiting YOUR blogs, bottles or chocolate in hand. The reason I'm warning you now is that you may want to do a bit of housework on your blogs and prepare a wonderful, witty and / or wise post for Sunday, so that your visitors can see you at your sparkly best.
If you don't have a blog, you can tell us about your book, if you have published one, or point us towards something that you've written somewhere on the internet. [You may not ask anyone to pay any dosh to read your words - this is a party, not a sales conference.]
When you turn up here on Sunday, I'll tell you exactly what to do, but it will be something like this: I will ask you to post a brief comment [on Sunday] telling us about your own blog / writing, to encourage people to visit you. Then people toddle over in their droves and leave a comment on your blog, and then you visit them. It should be a geat way for you to show people what you do.
NOW, however, I'd like to ask you something else: what would you like me to blog about over the coming year? I do want to focus more on the actual techniques of writing, within all the various genres and more generally, because I do think unpublished writers spend too much time worrying about submission details, rather than the most important thing, the actual writing. But I'm still happy to write about the process of submissions if there's still anything left that I haven't said. Comments below, please.
On Sunday, I will no doubt wax all sentimental about how much I like you all and how I have valued your company, but let's leave that till then, shall we? Today, as I say, I'm in a bad mood. Which is entirely as it should be for the Crabbit Old Bat, but still. Mind you, some remarkably lovely comments about Chicken Friend from that fellow crabby one, Proe, on my last post, have gone some way to smooth my brow. Thank you, Proe, you old curmudgeonely one! I value your compliments almost as much as your regular attempts to stir up my not-so-inner crabbit.
Meanwhile, you might like to read one of the posts from Day One of this blog, so you can see how little my advice has changed over the year... I may be crabbit, but I am at least consistent. Some might say boring. If they were very, very bold.
I hope to see you all dressed in your Sunday best, any time from 08.00 UK time, on 10th Jan! Spread the word - all are invited!
For now, your requests for topics, please.
41 comments:
- Barb said...
Lovely! In fact it may call for a new pair of boots, methinks...
- 7 January 2010 at 09:07
- Kristin Pedroja said...
Goddess Nicola,
First of all, THANK YOU for being so open with all of us. It's a rare writer who gives this much of their time to others. Your karma is hovering somewhere near Saturn. Hopefully the snow gods realize this soon and send much thawing your way.
I would appreciate any advice or resources you recommend on how to attack revisions and how to write the dreaded synopsis. Thanks in advance.
- 7 January 2010 at 09:16
- Elen C said...
Looking forward to it!
I agree with KP, I love hearing about how other people edit. There are so many alternatives - what works for you?
- 7 January 2010 at 09:27
- catdownunder said...
Oh, a party? That will be very late in the afternoon for me. Time to clip my claws, wipe my whiskers and brush myself to the tip of my tail - and write a sensible, non-cat blog post!
Nicola, if you have time and the inclination this year I would like to know something about what happened after you met your agent. How do you work together? How do you work with the editor? What should agents/editors/and writers expect of one another?
That's the technical side. On the writing side - where do you start in the story. Yes, I know at the beginning but where is the beginning? I have my own way of handling this (or it handles me) but I would be very interested to learn how others do.
I have a lot of other questions too - sheer feline curiousity. I have probably used up 8 of my 9 lives.
- 7 January 2010 at 09:32
- catdownunder said...
And, botheration, I meant to say a proper thankyou here as well. An appreciative purr anyway!
- 7 January 2010 at 09:35
- Kate said...
Yay - a blog party - I love your blog Nicola!
Now...what to wear?
- 7 January 2010 at 09:51
- Unknown said...
Thanks for the invitation!
- 7 January 2010 at 10:14
- Sally Zigmond said...
Sunday best? And I thought the whole point of visiting blogs was that I could come in my old jogging bottoms slippers and (in view of the weather) several layers of Yorkshire wool in various shades of tatty and pretend.
But for you, Nicola, anything.
- 7 January 2010 at 10:16
- Sue Guiney said...
Alas, I'll be mid travels on Sunday and unlikely to be able to look at any blogs. Sorry to have to miss it. But thanks for a year's worth of interesting posts. New topics? How about how we writers can use the new technologies to our marketing advantage? And how about an explanation of the Google download contract etc which I still don't completely get?
- 7 January 2010 at 10:27
- Catherine Hughes said...
Unlike my house, my blog is always spick and span and freshly updated!
Congratulations on a year of blogging brilliantly. I can't remember how long ago I found you; I do recall lurking around for quite some time before actually commenting.
Thanks for all the help and advice nad especially for the book I 'won'!
Cat x
- 7 January 2010 at 10:45
- Marshall Buckley said...
You? Boring? Oh, no, I would never be so brave to say that (even if it were true, which it patently isn't).
Looking forward to the party, will we be Trending on Twitter too? (Last one was a riot)
- 7 January 2010 at 10:46
- Thomas Taylor said...
Thanks for the year's worth of advice and guidance, Nicola. Even though I've only been here for about five months of it.
I'd love the read your thoughts on developing story and dealing with plot, please.
- 7 January 2010 at 11:07
For this, I am forced to give up my cloak of invisibility! I would love a post on punctuation. Is there a modern, acceptable form? is it a new art form or something that should remain set in stone? An example. Instead of exclamation marks, using very short sentences and full stops. As in, Dont. Shoot. Foot. Or are they?
As for Blog visits, less tidying for me - just the one post so far to fulfill NY resolution to start one. The Blog that is. But I do love a party.
And a final request, whispered very quietly - would you consider looking at other genres, like, dare I say the word, poetry?
With much thanks and love
- 7 January 2010 at 11:40
- Nora Nadjarian said...
How interesting! A blog party. Never been to one of those before.
Count me in.
- 7 January 2010 at 12:00
Only a year old? But there's so much information here. I'm very impressed. I will try to de-lurk a bit more and to visit on Sunday, though I have another party to attend in the morning.
Some of the writing subjects I'm interested in are:
* Genres: Single, mixed, cross-genre. Pro and cons thereof.
* PoV: Different points of view and related techniques. Single versus multiple, omniscient...
* Tense: The pros and cons of past and present tenses. Also, first-person versus third-person.
* Cast: How many characters? How to write believable ones.
Probably loads more like plot, dialogue, pace... but these will probably do for starters.
Thanks for doing this, your blog is a great resource, even if it is linear.
- 7 January 2010 at 12:15
- Unknown said...
Parties call for chocolate and wine. :P
1) Who and how the age group for the books are decided. I had a much longer question regarding that in one of these comments. You said I should remind you if you forget. :P
2) I second and third the people asking for posts on Genre.
- 7 January 2010 at 12:41
- Sharon K. Mayhew said...
Congratulations on your first year of blogging. You have a lot of followers already! I'll try ans stop by on Sunday...The whole time zone thing may mess me up. I usually blog/read blogs at night. I guess I could check in when SNL (Saturday Night Live) finishes that would be 6:30 am your time. :)
- 7 January 2010 at 14:19
- DJ Kirkby said...
Good idea. Sounds like fun.
- 7 January 2010 at 15:40
- Scott said...
Woo-hoo! Early congrats . . . just in case I don't make it onto the blogsphere this weekend. Hey, it happens!
- 7 January 2010 at 15:46
- iffath said...
Hah! I think this is a fab idea--I can shamelessly advertise my blogg! And discover other new and exciting blogs! I already love tuning in to your blog, Nicola! ;D
- 7 January 2010 at 16:14
- Jo Treggiari said...
Yay, a party! I'll come with bells on.
Hard to believe, as other wise souls mentioned, that the blog is only 1 year old. So much information here! Must be the result of much hard-earned experience.
Thank you for sharing it all (including the immensely valuable crabbity bits) with us.
Future topics? How about outlining? Yes? No? Does keeping a dilapidated notebook stuffed with post-its and undecipherable notes to oneself count? Why outline when so often we just deviate wildly from it anyway?
- 7 January 2010 at 16:24
- Jo Treggiari said...
And what are your thoughts on the publishing world and authors switching genres? I know that you have written many different types of books within YA and middle grade. Is your agent alright with that? Is your publisher? Is it ok because the Nicola Morgan style is present in all? Have you resisted pigeon-holing?
I am published in middle-grade fantasy, but my new (agented) book is YA futuristic dystopia, and my current WIP is YA realist (whatever the hell that means- I mean there's no fantasy and it's pretty gritty).
I had planned to work on sequel or companion novel to the dystopia book but my agent encouraged me to write something completely unrelated, so I did.
What are your thoughts as far as writers having the freedom to write the books they want, or falling in line with any demands that may be made on them? I heard recently that even Stephenie Meyer is heartily sick of the whole vampire thing.
- 7 January 2010 at 16:31
- Jo Franklin said...
A whole year - amazing. Congratulations.
The synopsis is still what I anguish over most. I feel such an amateur.
- Which characters to include, which to leave out? After all any actor with a speaking part gets a mention in the credits.
- Do you include the subplots when they are important in the denouement?
- Do you reveal your clever little plot devices in the synopsis?
- Only include the story - yes, but every word has been written to add to the story so how can you leave a single one out?
- I would love to see synopses of thriller/mystery/whodunnit type books to see how it should be done
- Maybe you could do synopsis spotlight whereby we can read a published book (one of yours maybe) and then have to write a synopsis of it and you can tell us where we are going wrong.
You get my drift.
Also POV. I think I am in the POV of the character and then am told I'm slipping out. How do you describe your MCs observation of another characters reaction to a revelation, for example. without slipping out of MC POV?
I better leave my list for the moment or you'll be too busy to ever write another book.
- 7 January 2010 at 16:53
- Dan Holloway said...
Top hole!
I would specifically like to see something on historical fiction, and the conventions for voice and dialogue in particular.
Why? 1. I love history and 2. I hate historical fiction - and those two sentences shouldn't both be true.
What puts me off most historical fiction are three things:
1. - sheer verbosity - be it unnecessary detail where people show off their research, or seeing HF as an excuse for endless adjectives and parataxis. This goes hand in hand with interminability.
2. pomposity - this is about voice. Latinates and archaic forms and use of teh subjunctive "ewould" as though it madethe writing more worthy.
3. dialogue - authenticity does not mean Dick Van Dyke screaming cockney at me. Much historical fiction with its sirs, and it's "I would pray thee"s strikes me as just that.
And then I read a story (usually by an unpublished author) set in the past that has sharp, active sentences, brilliant plotting, doesn't tell me about the history of whalebone just because someone's wearing a corset, and speaks liek I do. And I think that's great. Yet stories like that never seem to reach the shlves because they don't obey the conventions of HF.
So I want to know - what REALLY ARE the HF conventions that an agent/publisher will demand? And if someone wants to write a story set in the past that knows how to end a sentence without seventeen subclauses, do they have to give up the HF tag and market it as lit fic?
- 7 January 2010 at 17:06
- Rebecca Knight said...
Hooray--a party! The last one was just lovely, so you can count me in :).
As for writing topics, will you please give us some advice on plotting? How do you come up with your plots? Do you outline? Any tips on building and maintaining tension?
Also, I'd be interested to know how you edit, and any tips you've picked up over your journey.
Thank you so much, Nicola! This is one of my all time favorite writing blogs :D.
- 7 January 2010 at 17:08
- Jill said...
I've been to so many classes and have a CW degree, and tips are always good, but I'm at the point where I need to just grit my teeth and do it (submit and keep writing). I still like advice; it makes me feel connected to other poor slobs like me. I just don't need any particular advice (if I knew that I needed particular advice, I wouldn't actually need it, or something like that).
8 a.m. UK time? Let's see, that's about one in the morning where I'm at. Oh, well, I'll check in later in the day. I love your blog and your writing. I'm a bit of an 18th C geek, so love the Highwayman books. I did just start Flesh Market and, ugh, still cringing. I swear I can feel that knife. I wrote about it on my blog last night. I know--not the blog party yet--just dishing out the flattery.
- 7 January 2010 at 17:19
- Karen Jones Gowen said...
The snow is making me crabby too. Here in Utah, we've had it nonstop since Thanksgiving. And it's not melting due to frigid temps. I think a Nicola Morgan BLOG PARTY sounds WONDERFUL!!! Bring on the hot chocolate.
I've met a couple great blogging friends through your blog, and this is a good way to meet more! I can't wait to visit everyone's blogs and make comments...the logistics of this will be interesting...But anyway, I'm in!
No requests for this year posts. I love everything here. You could talk about what you ate for breakfast and it would be interesting.
- 7 January 2010 at 17:51
- Editor Cassandra said...
Congratulations on a year! Happy Birthday!
Thank you for a very informative and wonderful year!
- 7 January 2010 at 20:32
- Glynis Peters said...
The time zone will mean I am early or late, but I will try to attend, thanks.
- 7 January 2010 at 20:37
- Nicola Morgan said...
Ooh, you are all so lovely. And new boots indeed - shame I can't get to the shops in time!
Thanks for all your ideas for blog topics - I will try to get to them all.
Amanda - sorry to be a pain but could you possibly remind me where that comment/question was, so I can answer it properly? Sorry I didn't before!
Re timing of party - it won't matter at all about time zones because we will continue to party until I blog again about 48 hours later!
- 7 January 2010 at 21:28
- Nicola Morgan said...
Arabella - am just off to pay you a visit, flattery and all...
- 7 January 2010 at 21:29
- David John Griffin said...
Yes, happy blog birthday, Nicola! I look forward to the Sunday party; thank you in advance for another opportunity to "advertise" my blog/writing, much appreciated!
From the wealth of info in your posts, it's difficult to know what else I would like to read about...I guess one thing would be concerning pseudonyms. How much input does the agent/publisher have? Are there any drawbacks to having a pseudonym? Are there any benefits? etc.
- 7 January 2010 at 22:31
- Jemi Fraser said...
Congrats on the year of blogging - that's awesome. I'm looking forward to the party!
- 7 January 2010 at 23:24
- Theresa Milstein said...
Snow puts me in a bad mood as well. Living in a city, snow just makes everything horrible - it gets dirty, it's a pain to shovel out the car, there are less parking spaces, people who don't shovel their sidewalks property leave ice rinks, and so on. I can't believe that in Cambridge w have less than most places to the north, west, and south of us. I'm sure we'll get hit harder soon.
I love your party invitation idea.
- 7 January 2010 at 23:43
- Megs - Scattered Bits said...
I would love to read posts about writing dialogue that matters, introducing unfamiliar settings (I write SFF) without drowning in description, how to write about something happening inside a character's mind (fighting drugs causing amnesia with mental power to be specific) in any kind of specific way (concrete nouns and all that), and maybe your take on structure (universal requirements or no kind of thing).
I've been a bad lurker, but I can read a lot on my work breaks. Commenting not so much. Crazy filters.
- 8 January 2010 at 02:21
- Unknown said...
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But I do have a curious question regarding how books are labelled. I've seen Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials in both the YA and Middle Grade category. The topic is rather challenging and I'd personally throw it into YA myself, but is that just me being paranoid that young kids won't get it? Or were the people doing the labelling not really reading the books? Or are some books just difficult to put down in one specific category?
from this post: http://helpineedapublisher.blogspot.com/2009/12/why-writers-must-read-right-stuff.html
Thanks :)
- 8 January 2010 at 07:34
- Nicola Morgan said...
Amanda - thanks. I remember now.
All - wow, those topics should keep me going for a while! Thank you for your faith. I feel a bit like the Delphic oracle, with people traipsing to her for pronouncements. I just hope I can give clearer answers than she did.
- 8 January 2010 at 09:29
- Cathie Hartigan said...
Nicola, now you're having a party! Your energy knows no bounds, I am convinced of it.
All your blogging is brilliant. Thank you again.
Hmm, now where exactly did I put my blog?
- 8 January 2010 at 09:57
- Simon Kewin said...
Well, I'm rather enjoying all this snow, but I'll certainly come along to the party. Thanks for the invite! Now to think of something witty and wise to write ...
The previous comments pretty much cover the things I'd be interested in reading about - in particular the questions about categorizing books as certain types. Recently I've been thinking about what pigeonhole my current WIP should be in (YA?) and secretly resenting having to categorize at all. I read "YA" books and I'm more of an "OA" now. And when I was a YA I sometimes read grown-up books. I can see that consistency of target audience would help build up a "brand", but should I just write the story I want to write and worry about this after? Or restrict myself to certain audiences?
- 8 January 2010 at 12:36
- Rachel said...
Joining just in time for a party... typical!
- 8 January 2010 at 14:54
- TOM VOWLER said...
A very Happy Birthday to your blog for Sunday, me dear. I had no idea, when I left that first comment, that you'd just started, such was the accomplished tone; thought you'd been doing it for years.
Will try to pop in on Sunday.
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The former Washington County constable has been arrested, charged with impersonating an officer
Tommy Clowers is the former Washington County constable, but he's currently being held in the Benton County Jail. Investigators searched his Springdale home and seized much of his property on Friday afternoon after police reports were filed in Benton County suggesting Clowers was making traffic stops in Rogers. His girlfriend, Shelley Dickard, says it's just not true.
"He would never ever pull anyone over, especially not in Rogers," Dickard said.
65-year-old Tommy Clowers was arrested Friday, and his two vehicles were towed away.
"He's had these vehicles for I think probably 10 years. He was a constable and had constable stickers on them," Dickard said.
She says Clowers put civil officer decals on his vehicles once his term as constable ended in December. Those decals were also taken by investigators on friday, in addition to computers, firearms and the list goes on.
"Uniforms, patches, badges, weapons and we took two semi-marked police units, outfitted with blue lights and sirens," Sgt. Andy Lee with the Benton County Sheriff's Department said.
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Xanthmaker - Piers Anthony Interview - Jitterbug Fantasia
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iers Anthony
was born in 1934 in Oxford, England. His parents were emotionally distant, but he emotionally bonded with his nanny. Then when Anthony was four years old his parents moved to the United States, suddenly pulling him away from the only adult with whom he felt an emotional bond. Without an emotional anchor, Anthony felt alone and alienated in his adopted country. The gray sameness of his life tore open in 1947, when he first read a copy of
Astounding Science Fiction
. From that day forward, Anthony has been obsessively interested in reading and writing wonder-stories.
Anthony is grateful for his education, which includes the famous "progressive" school Goddard College in Vermont. From there he married his college sweetheart Carol (called "Cam" for her initials), joined the army, then taught public school. In 1962 his wife took a newspaper job to support the family while Anthony spent one full year pursuing his dream of becoming a fulltime writer (to this day his standard advice to aspiring writers is "have a working spouse"). With the support of his wife, Anthony was able to sell more and more short stories to science fiction magazines, then novels, eventually managing to earn a living solely by writing fiction. Finally in the mid-1970s editor Lester del Rey suggested that Anthony try his hand at writing fantasy, which was selling well at the time. Unable to take Fantasy seriously, Anthony filled the first Xanth book with humor and puns, little knowing that it would become a goldmine. Since then eleven of the thirty+ Xanth books have become best-sellers. Exact figures are difficult to come by, but
A Spell for Chameleon
has sold well over one million copies, and the sales of the overall series are surely in the tens of millions.
Anthony writes an average of three novels per year, including one new Xanth novel. Unfortunately at the moment publishers only seem interested in his best-selling Xanth books, not the more adult stories Anthony considers his more serious work. Still, it's hard to complain when you've enjoyed nearly thirty years as a best-selling author with a devoted readership counted in the hundreds of thousands, and Anthony continues to approach his career with determination and good humor.
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Beginnings :: Astounding Science Fiction
You've written that your first experience with science fiction was finding a copy of the March 1947 issue of
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The Equalizer
by Jack Williamson. The experience so gripped you that the magazine quickly became your primary interest. What impact did that magazine have on you?
I think it was Wilson Tucker who said that the golden age of science fiction is 12. That is, whenever you first get into it. I was 13, being a slow starter.
When I first saw the magazine it was just a magazine, nothing special. Then I started reading the story, about a spaceship returning to Earth and getting no responses to its messages, checking the deserted moon station, and going on to Earth, where things had changed almost beyond recognition. I don't think I ever reread the story, and I gave away my magazine collection over 30 years ago, so can't verify details. I think it was the wonder of the old order passing, being replaced by a quietly superior new order, the sort of world I would have loved to join. Pure escapism - and I use that word with nostalgic pride, not derision. What the hell is wrong with escapism, when the world you face is ugly?
Your first published novel was
, written over seven years and first released in 1967. According to the publisher's description, "The author regards this as perhaps the most intricately structured novel the science fantasy genre has seen." Can you talk a bit about what types of layers and ideas you played with in the structure?
Chthon was actually my second novel, but the first one was never published. If you diagrammed its form, it would be in the shape of a doubled hexagon, with all the sections parallel, addressing the past, present, and future. I haven't seen any other novel structured like that. But few readers notice, and since then I have focused more on entertainment than art, and my career has prospered accordingly. The lesson here is that a novel needs to appeal to the readers rather than to the author.
How did you develop the idea to structure Chthon like a doubled hexagon? Were you inspired by reading about other novels built on tightly-controlled geometric structures?
It was rather more prosaic. Chthon fell naturally into three portions: Aton Five's childhood, his time in prison, and his life after escaping prison. I needed to unify it, so I made prison the framework, with flashbacks, and later flashforwards. Then I drew parallels between them. In the end it formed into 39 sections, all tied together by the parallels.
You say working on the tightly-structured Chthon pleased you but not the audience, and since then you've learned to focus more on entertainment than art. Do you consider all the work you spent reaching for art in your early career a mistake, or a useful learning experience? Do you draw from that set of tools to try to smuggle as much "art" as possible into your "entertainment"?
My early career and indeed my whole early life was a preparation for the writing I was to do later. I don't consider any of it a mistake. But to put that in perspective, let me say that I don't consider Xanth the pinnacle of my career. Xanth is what pays my way so I can afford to do serious writing.
Did you catch any flack from feminists for giving the minionettes in Chthon inverted emotional circuits, so the kindest thing you can do to them is treat them with abuse and derision?
I don't think feminists read Chthon. On occasion I would have battles with them in the fanzines (former printed amateur fan magazines). The essence of my response was for them to stop screaming about things like whether a woman should be addressed as Mrs. Miss, or Ms., and start fighting the way a woman was paid two-thirds as much for the same work as a man. They disappeared. I don't regard my fiction as anti-feminist. If a man gets hit, they seem to feel that's fine; if a woman gets hit, they say it's chauvinistic. I treat all my characters like real people. Judging by my mail, I have more (and more appreciative) female readers than male.
Xanth :: Phunny Money
The work for which you're most famous is your successful Xanth series, beginning with
A Spell For Chameleon
in 1977. One of the most distinctive features of the fantasy world of Xanth is the enormous amount of puns. Were the puns inspired by the nonsense poems of Edward Lear, or the occasional puns in the Oz novels by L. Frank Baum?
No. Xanth became funny because I discovered that I just couldn't take fantasy seriously. Later, with more fantasy experience I learned to take it more seriously, as with the
Incarnations of Immortality
, or
The hero of the first few Xanth books is a 25-year-old man named Bink, who is immune to magic. How did you come up with the name "Bink" and the idea for his particular ability?
Fantasy heroes tend to have glamorous names, so I parodied that by having as unglamorous a name as possible. He was nothing, and his talent was nothing - until finally revealed as quite powerful. This is the private dream of just about any reader: to have his/her nonentity become great.
You've written that in Xanth you reversed the typical fantasy expectations, that the hero would have an impressive name and abilities. Was there a particular fantasy novel you used as the model for the genre stereotypes you were looking to avoid?
No one novel, but perhaps
Tarzan of the Apes
, or
Conan the Barbarian
Xanth is surrounded by a mystic barrier which protects it from non-Xanth people. Was this inspired by the Barrier of Invisibility which surrounds Oz?
Not that I'm aware of. But I did read all 14 original OZ novels to my little girl twice, so might have been influenced. In fantasy there needs to be a separation, to explain why similar magic doesn't work in the real world. Most fantasy has it.
What's the name of the barrier which surround Xanth? Is it "Xanth's Mystic Barrier"? Does it render Xanth invisible as such?
Actually it's not a barrier so much as the gulf between worlds, as will be clarified in Xanth #31
Air Apparent
. I don't think it has a name.
Xanth is based on Florida; does it occupy the same space? When Bink crosses the barrier into the North, does he cross into Georgia or Alabama? Or some other part of Mundania, perhaps someplace not specific?
Again, Xanth seems to overlay Florida, but it is literally a different world. Mundania seems like our world, but it isn't identical. Xanth also overlays other peninsulas like Korea and Italy, and Waves of Invasion have come from them.
Am I correct in remembering a Hephalumph in Xanth? Were you a big fan of the Winnie-the-Pooh books?
There was one, borrowed from Winnie the Pooh, which series I did enjoy as a child. Then I wondered whether it was proprietary, so did not have further references.
I've heard that you first noticed the word "Xanthe" in a book of baby names, as Xanthe is Greek for "blond" and your daughter Penny is blond - is this true? Is it possible that your association of the word with a parallel fantasy land may have been subconsciously influenced by Jack Williamson's 1934 novella
? Was Jack Williamson a favorite author of yours?
No, I never heard of that particular novel. But Jack Williamson certainly was a favorite of mine, starting with
The Equalizer
And Searching Mind
(also published as
The Humanoids
). My daughter Penny is blonde - I send her dumb blonde jokes, and she sends me dumb blond (note the spelling) jokes, because our hair may be the same color, if we just were to wear it the same length. Hers is a yard long. But I liked the name years before I picked up on its meaning. I believe the relevant connection is
, as in the poem by
. That led me to a study of his poetry, and the history of the Mongols, as my novel
When you attended
Goddard College
there was one pretty young female student who wore jeans that were frayed to the point where her panties were visible, which must have been as evident to her as it was to the other students. Did she have a hand in the mild sexuality of the Xanth series, in which pretty girls seem to arrange for the boys to catch a glimpse of their undergarments? (Volume 15 is even titled
The Color of Her Panties
.) Can you reveal the first name of visible-panty-girl?
I remember her name but she may be a great-grandmother by now, and hardly eager for that kind of notoriety. She was a healthy, shapely, sexy girl; let's leave it at that. I don't think her dishabille affected Xanth; panties didn't really come into it in the first four novels. One image I remember that may have had a effect was a TV review of fashion, and one of the models, as she was departing the stage, flicked her skirt to show a brief flash of panty. I thought that was a nice indication of naughtiness demonstrated in a harmless way. So when I wanted harmless naughtiness in Xanth, panties was it.
Why do you think young people are so drawn to fantasy and wonder-stories like your Xanth series? Do you feel the endless puns in Xanth are merely an extra cosmetic wrinkle, or integral to the appeal of the series? Are puns especially appealing to young people? Do they reflect the way young people see the world, or assist young people to progress from a childish to an adult perspective?
Today there are fantasy novels, movies, and games galore, so young folk are immersed in a culture of fantasy. In an earlier day there was a culture of western stories. So it seems to be the fashion of the day. Originally the puns were decoration, but now I'm receiving fan mail from readers who are pun-fans. They do set Xanth apart from most other fantasy. Some older folk relate to them too. I'm not sure this reflects anything significant. It's just that those who like puns - and many don't - can find them here.
Was the magician Humfrey named after Humphrey Bogart?
No. Originally he was the Magician Hundredspell, and there was Sorceress Illusion, and Magician Transformer. Editor Lester del Rey objected, I think correctly, and so I simplified the names to their closest legitimate appellations: Humfrey, Iris, and Trent.
One reviewer of your Xanth series wrote that the Xanth books describe "The Adult Conspiracy," which is "an attempt by all adults to prevent juveniles from gaining knowledge about words and concepts, especially about sexuality, which are considered inadequate to know for juveniles." Would you agree with that?
More or less. It is also a rather obvious parody of Mundane attitudes. Studies show that young folk who are sensibly educated about sex grow up to have fewer illegitimate babies and venereal diseases than those kept ignorant - so concealing such information is folly. But it seems conservatives believe it.
Did you coin the term "Mundania", or was the term already in circulation among science fiction/fantasy fans to describe the world of non-fans? Are you the first person to use it to describe an imaginary place, that you know of?
Mundania was a standard term for non-SF/Fantasy fans, a dull external place. I merely adapted it. I doubt I was the first to do so.
I first found Xanth when I was 12 years old; I had fallen in love with C.S. Lewis'
Chronicles of Narnia
series, and was looking for something similar. My school librarian recommended "A Spell for Chameleon," which I enjoyed immensely. Do you find that many of your readers find Xanth via the "gateway" of Narnia or Oz, or that Xanth leads them to other fantasy works, like those of Tolkien?
Your surmise is reasonable, but I have little information to support it. Most of my readers just seem to see a novel on sale, try it - and like it. Many have it urged on them by friends. Some have indeed reported that once Xanth made them realize that reading could be fun, they went on to other writers.
In your May 1997 newsletter, you said, "Reviewers are an ignorant lot, but one made a comment years back that made sense to me, saying that Xanth was like a slightly more mature version of Oz. Yes, I think so. I did not try to copy Oz - I suspect the genesis of Xanth owes more to the
Raggedy Ann
books, with their gardens of lollipops, or the Narnia novels, with their sapient animals - but I did read all 14 original Oz novels to my daughter Penny twice, when she was that age, along with the
Arabian Nights
and much else." Can you be more specific about how Xanth may have been influenced by the Raggedy Ann books, Narnia or Arabian Nights?
There are pie trees in Xanth, which are like more mature lollipop gardens. As for Narnia - I never heard of it until a relative recommended it for my children. I had like C. S. Lewis' trilogy
Out of the Silent Planet
, and
That Hideous Strength
, so I don't think Narnia had much direct influence on Xanth, other than helping establish the fantasy ambiance. The demons of Xanth are essentially Arabian Nights ifrits.
Other Creators :: Lucas, Rowling, Tolkien & Vonnegut
On the radio program
Wired for Books
you mentioned that you don't regard the Star Wars films as great literature. Why do you think they were so popular, if the stories were mediocre? Was it mostly about the special effects? Is there a particular story of yours which you'd like to get on the big screen?
I want to clarify that something doesn't have to be great literature for me to enjoy it. Star Wars is my kind of junk. It is scientifically implausible if not outright nonsense, and it's hardly original to put one man in a robot suit and another in a monkey suit, or to have Boy meet and rescue Princess. But the effects are well done, it's full of action, and it's fun. That's why it's successful, while critically acclaimed films seldom are. What I write is not great literature either, but it is good entertainment. As for what of mine I'd like to see become a movie - anything will do. There are now movie options on three of my series, and I hope they all turn out well.
Which 3 of your series are optioned for films?
series - with Split Infinity destined for an anime movie.
Incarnations of Immortality
, with
On a Pale Horse
optioned by Disney, to be handled by Jamie Foxx.
, optioned by Warner Pictures.
What do you think of the
Harry Potter
I read the first and found it not great literature but okay. If there's such a thing as a movie being better than the book, this is the case here, as they are great entertainment movies. I hope they do as well on mine.
What are your feelings about Tolkien's
The Lord of the Rings
? Do you think it deserves to be as popular as it is? What do you like and dislike about it?
Most folk don't realize that Tolkien had a real problem getting Lord of the Rings published, and I believe had to pay a publisher to do it. That publisher did not safeguard the rights, and an American publisher stole it, and only after an outcry was shamed into paying for it. But by that time the series had become popular. Today critics may give many reasons for its success, but that's long after the fact. As for me, I like
The Hobbit
better. Lord of the Rings was too diffuse for me. But it did help pave the way for the ascent of the Fantasy genre, and I owe it for that.
You've said of author Kurt Vonnegut: "He's always saying 'I'm not a science fiction writer!' He
a science fiction writer. What bothers me is people in the mainstream, who were so ignorant, see it and say 'Oh, I've never seen anything like this before! This is great, this guy's a genius.' And he became famous. Those of us who wrote science fiction and were honest about it did not. And I'm one of thousands who probably hold a similar contempt for that. It's not that he's a bad writer, it's that he cheated to get fame."
Do you still feel that way? Isn't it fair to say that most scifi/fantasy is wish-fulfillment stories for young people, and Vonnegut is going for something more like the novels traditionally found in the mainstream section of bookstores? Is that a fair perspective? Is there a broader vocabulary which would clarify things, like "Young Adult Scifi" vs. "Literature Scifi"?
Yes, much of his writing seems depressive which of course appeals to depressive critics. That doesn't make it better or worse than, say, funny fantasy. I do believe in labeling, so readers can seek and find literary fantasy or junk fantasy, as they prefer.
Publishing :: Electronic Books, Games & Dvorak
In interviews you often despair that publishers these days seem only interested in your best-selling Xanth novels, but not your other vast store of ideas. Don't your
Incarnations of Immortality
books sell well? What about the recently-published
The Magic Fart
, published by the smaller Mundania Press? Are you able to get things like that published, but only through smaller companies who unfortunately lack the resources to reach a wide audience?
The Incarnations novels did sell well. But when I wrote the eighth novel, after surveying my readers about it,
Under a Velvet Cloak
featuring Nox, the Incarnation of Night, I was unable to find a publisher for it. As for my erotic fiction - Mundania Press came into existence to reprint Pornucopia, and I have a significant financial interest in it. Mundania is now going well beyond my novels and is a respectable small publisher in its own right, but that suggests what it takes to get my non-Xanth novels into print.
Can you talk a little about what your ambitions are for electronic publication? Is this to bring your favorite out-of-print stuff back into print?
I support electronic publishing not primarily for myself, but for all the other aspiring writers who are in danger of being shut out by the system. I maintain an ongoing
survey of electronic publishers
and related services at my HiPiers.com site, and it takes a fair amount of my working time. I do try to return my out-of-print material to publication as a service to those of my readers who want otherwise unobtainable books, but that's only part of my reason for involvement. I want there to be a viable alternative to the present exclusive system.
Was it a satisfying experience working on the
Companions of Xanth
videogame with Legends Entertainment in 1993? What was it like playing the game? Do you enjoy videogames in general?
The Xanth game was, in the end, something of a disappointment. They rejected my input, calling me ignorant, and did it their way. Even so it was Legend's most successful game up to that point. They simply had their eye on a more limited market than I did. I wanted them to try to address a global market, rather than just a gaming market. The idea of the game was to make it easy for anyone to play, especially those turned off by complicated computer processes. I don't play video games myself; I'm too busy writing.
You've said that science fiction/fantasy writers simply can't make a living writing short stories; they must write novels. Do you regret that you're not able to write in short form? Do you tend to have ideas for short stories that you need to rework into novels?
Once I mastered the novel form, I felt at home with it. But I do miss the story form. A couple of years ago I finally wrote several mainstream stories for my collection
, which I like very well. Of course it didn't sell, because all publishers want from me is funny fantasy while this is intense personal interactions. So now I am in contract negotiation with Venus Press for electronic publication. At such time as readers can see these stories, I think they'll agree that there's more on my creative mind than fantasy.
You use the
Dvorak Simplified Keyboard
typing system, rather than the ubiquitous QWERTY. How did you first start using this exotic system? Do you find it easier? How many words-per-minute can you type with Dvorak?
I learned to type two-finger, and said that if they ever got a sensible keyboard, I'd learn touch on it. Then there was a article in the Saturday Review of Literature about the Dvorak layout, and I said "That's it!" But I have to say that my touch typing never got as fast or accurate as my two-finger typing had been. In fact I got carpal tunnel syndrome, which was never a problem two-finger, until discovering the ergonomic "natural" keyboard, which slowly cured it. My typing really is limited by the speed of my thinking, not my fingers, and is about 30 wpm, which isn't fast.
What is your typical day like? How much time do you spend writing? Is it true you prefer writing to nearly any other activity, and find interviews and other promotion a nuisance? Are you friends with many people in your neighborhood?
With my wife's recent illness, I spend less time writing than I used to. Today my typical day includes making most meals, washing dishes, shopping with my wife (for a time I had to do it alone), and keeping doctor appointments for the two of us. I write in the time left over. My daughters are grown and on their own; we see them when we can. We're pretty much isolated, physically; my contact with others is mostly via snail mail and email.
Controversy :: Frank Depictions of Sex & Life
You've said that publishers seem to dislike your non-Xanth material because you do not shy away from body functions, which I take to mean frank discussions of sex and using the toilet. Are those aspects integral to your non-Xanth work? Would it be possible to release the work with the sexual and bodily aspects removed, but keep the original "pure" manuscript intact, to be released later, either electronically to a smaller audience or perhaps decades down the road, to a less puritanical culture?
What I want is to have my novels published the way I write them, and that can be difficult in traditional publishing. Those who read them in search of body functions will be disappointed; there's not that much. Some readers refused to read the Xanth novel
The Color of Her Panties
because they said there was a bad word in the title. I refuse to cater to the limitations of such folk. My
series is an example of my integrated approach. It's not about body functions, but where they are relevant, they are there. It's about as simple as that.
You once wrote to your young fan Jenny that "TPD = SOD," which means "Typical Publisher Behavior is Shitting On Dreams." You expand by saying, "I think it's a shame that something as creative and vital to the nature of the human species as story-telling is largely controlled by the soulless cretins known as publishers." You've often written about the contempt you've observed publishers exhibiting towards authors. Why do you feel this dynamic exists? Is it just as fair to say that publishers are also pursuing dreams, but their dreams are about having nice homes, financial security and notoriety for publishing best-sellers? Is that necessarily a worse or more selfish dream that being an author? Or is it the way they go about pursuing their dreams that you find objectionable? Does publishing attract a low, mercenary sort of person, or does the nature of the business weed out the less rapacious people? Is it possible the world of commerce itself is unfortunately rather brutal by nature, and the publishers just happen to be the point-of-contact between an author and that world, and so appear villainous?
Your question pretty much answers itself. The essence of the problem, as I see it, is that those whose primary interest is in making money hold the whip hand over those with artistic aspirations. I suspect that had today's publishers prevailed in ancient Greece, there would have been no Parthenon. The money would have been spent on wine, women, and song. That is, immediate pleasure rather than Art.
Do you think some or all people who write wonder-stories deserve to make a living doing so? Should a writer's merit be measured by how hard they work, their popularity, or the "quality" of their work (if such a thing can be measured)?
It would be easy to say "Yes," were I not also conscious of those who consider a human hair in a bottle of urine to be Art. Yet who is to say what Art ultimately is? Certainly not the critics. So I can't answer that. The present system is far from perfect, yet it functions, and some worthwhile art does emerge.
Probably the strongest criticism of your work on the Internet has been for the 10-page sequence in
(1990) in which a five-year-old girl named Nymph, who has been sexually mistreated by her father and brother, seduces an adult man named Mad. In the Author's Note you explain that, "The games five year old Nymph played with Mad where a joy to her at the time, but it was nevertheless abuse by our society's definition (not necessarily that of other societies) ..." Critics say that even when a child is the "instigator," child-adult sex is abusive molestation. You've bridled at charges that you advocate anything resembling abuse, though you've revealed that you're curious about the subject enough to correspond with a few men who are in prison on charges of pedophilia. You've responded to critics by pointing out that exploration of a topic does not translate into advocating it, and no one objects to your writing about savage murders, or massive intergalactic genocides, or accuses you of therefore being a pro-genocidal murderer. To support your point, you cite the voluminous fan mail you've received from women, saying the issue of child/adult sexual encounters is common, and it's about time someone addressed it in fiction.
A friend who recommended Firefly to me wrote, "Piers Anthony constructed this story deliberately to point out some of the logical and moral problems with the strict age-based legal definition of 'molestation.' I will note that none of the critics I've seen in [a particular newsgroup] thread have responded to his logic, instead calling him 'weird' and 'creepy.' These are ad hominem attacks, not counterarguments. It's 'pedophilia' as defined by society. But it's quite possible that to the two people in the relationship, it's simply 'love.'" Would you agree with him?
Yes. What I consider sexual abuse are things like rape and subjugation. A fully voluntary and informed sexual relationship is something else. So I'd condemn a man raping a 40 year old woman, more than I would a man having consensual sex with a 15 year old girl. The problem is that young children don't know enough to make informed consent. So the age of consent laws help protect them. One thing children crave is love. Some adults teach them that love is identical to sex. Thus children can become willing, even eager sexual partners. This is nevertheless abuse.
Psychology :: A Peek Inside
In the first volume of your autobiography,
Bio of an Ogre
, you write how you began to wet the bed again at age six or seven, after having gone several years without doing so. You speculate that your body may have been attempting to return to its former child-like state, during which you felt better cared for and happier. Can you expand on this idea of the body regressing when a child's life grows unpleasant? Do you see any connection between this event and the popularity of your books particularly with young people? Did experiences like this give you a child-like (but not childish) way of looking at the world most grown-ups shed, allowing you to communicate with young people in their own language?
I once read a comment in a book of children's stories (I think) that the most effective authors of children's books started their lives as happy, then suffered serious years-long disruptions. I am actually a writer of adult novels, but that describes me perfectly, so it may apply to more than children's book authors. Yes, I wet the bed for years, but the cause may have been less direct. There is evidence that I was a very sound sleeper, once I got to sleep, and may simply have lost consciousness to the point of losing bladder control. Probably a specialist could confirm that such a syndrome exists. Sleep was my escape from a life I deemed not worth living. So what explains my rapport with young readers? Two things, I think. One is that when I was young I made an oath to myself never to forget what it was like, the way I saw adults had forgotten, and I kept that oath. That's why you don't see me rhapsodizing about the dear lost joys of childhood; I remember how it really was, and I'm sure many children appreciate that. Second is the empathy I have for all living creatures, not just children. It extends to all ages and all species. I am a vegetarian because I don't like hurting animals, for example.
In your second autobiography,
How Precious Was That While
, you describe yourself as "depressive." Do you think your success as a writer has helped alleviate depression, aggravated it (because writing is done alone, and solitude often contributes to depression), or had no effect? Is there necessarily a connection between depression and creativity? Do you find that many authors of wonder-stories tend to be depressive?
A book could be written on this subject, and I suspect that more than one has been. I have pondered it often. I conclude that depression is independent of creativity or writing ability, but that a talented creative writer is more likely to appear among depressives because this is his/her way of both expressing the pain and rising out of it. My writing has surely helped lift my spirits, because I love being expressive, and because it has paid well enough to abolish concerns about how to survive economically. A related question I have pondered is whether, were I given a pill to abolish my depression that would also abolish my creativity - would I take it? I suspect I wouldn't. As it happens, I now do take a pill - Synthroid for low thyroid function - that has significantly alleviated my depression. I no longer ponder each morning whether life is worth living, and am no longer obsessed with death. But my creativity continues unabated - I think. So I believe the two are coincidental factors, rather than causatively linked.
In How Precious Was That While, you wrote "My mother was appalled when I once remarked that my parents were folk I knew and liked, but did not love; she did not understand why that had to be." Did you feel that way throughout your childhood? To what do you attribute your emotional separation from your family? Did you become closer with time?
It was evident from the start that my parents had better things to do than cater to their children. My closest relationship with an adult was with my nanny in England - whom I never saw again when I left at age 4. I suspect it was from her I learned empathy, a quality my parents largely lacked. That never really changed.
In your August 2005 newsletter, you wrote, "The Mormons started as a borrowing from a pirated fantasy/historical novel but in time became a legitimate religion that prefers to hide its origins..."; what novel are you referring to? Is it
View of the Hebrews: or the Tribes of Israel in America
(1825) , by Ethan Smith, or the
Lost Manuscript of Solomon Spaulding
(written 1812)?
It is Spaulding's novel of ancient America. Handwriting analysis established that pages of that manuscript are in the original Mormon literature, as their founder was illiterate. But this is a very sensitive matter for the Mormons. However, other religions have similarly clouded origins, from Christianity to the Scientologists. What counts, to my mind, is the values and practice they have today, and the Mormons do better than the so-called born-again-Christians now fouling up our American government.
Science fiction author Philip K. Dick once wrote, "The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."
You've often written that you found life very difficult and unpleasant for many years during middle-childhood. "Reality, of course, has always been my problem."
Is Bink's ability to be immune to magic related to your ability to emotionally disconnect from unpleasant "realities" via wonder stories? And just as Bink's ability eventually wins him success, acceptance and a bride, did your equivalent ability - to detach from mundane reality and let your imagination roam - win you a place in the real world?
Another example is Jack Vance
The Languages of Pao
, wherein language defines the nature of its culture. Warriors speak a warlike language, for example. I'm a student of language in my fashion, and such things interest me. But I have to say I think it's largely bullshit. People are as they are, and will find the words to express themselves; the words do not change their natures. Neither does changing perception of reality change reality itself. The present American government seems to indulge in magical thinking; deficits don't matter, global warming does not exist, clear-cutting is good for the environment. But reality will make itself felt in due course. Magic is illusion, in our world, and I have no belief in it. Bink is really my take on Everyman, a figure the average reader can identify with. But for all that, yes, I disliked the mundane world, and did in time succeed in improving my situation via my formerly hidden talent for writing. So there is a parallel, but it's less personal and more general than your question implies. Do I identify with Bink? Sure. I also identify with every other character in every piece of fiction I've written, male and female.
You've said, "Xanth is what pays my way so I can afford to do serious writing." Which of your books do you consider your most serious writing, and why? How would you most like to be remembered?
. The
Tatham Mound
. My biography of my father
(unpublished). My mainstream story collection
, forthcoming from Venus Press.
. And for serious, in contrast to funny, fantasy: The
series. The
Incarnations of Immortality
series. It is not that I think there is anything wrong with funny fantasy; I just don't want to be limited to it. I'd like to be remembered as a competent, versatile writer, not a one-string guitar.
If you could give one piece of advice to yourself when you were thirteen years old, what would it be?
Stay the course; this rough path does have a worthwhile destination.
Links :: Where To Learn More
Hi Piers
is the official homepage of Piers Anthony and Xanth. Features an ongoing newsletter, bibliography, reviews, links to related sites and helpful survey on where to get published electronically.
The Compleat Piers Anthony
by Daniel J. Reitz, Sr. is probably the most comprehensive online Piers Anthony resource. It features a biography, bibliography, FAQ, photos, articles, reviews and links.
Anthony granted a 47-minute
to the radio program
Wired for Books
, hosted by Don Swaim (Realaudio).
Entries on
Piers Anthony
from Wikipedia.
The definitive reference book on Xanth is
Piers Anthony's Visual Guide to Xanth
(1989), by Piers Anthony and Jody Lynn Nye.
Bio of an Ogre
(1988) is the autobiography of Piers Anthony to age 50.
Piers Anthony's
How Precious Was That While
(2001) briefly recaps his previous autobiography, then details the next ten years or so.
Salon.com ran the story
I Was a Captive of Xanth
in December 2000.
Mundania Press
publishes several of Anthony's newer works, reprints of his most famous books and lots of original novels by other authors.
This page launched November 12, 2005.


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My son turned one last month. I decided to bake a birthday cake for him. It took me a while to think of what to make. I wanted to include chocolate and something blue in it as he seemed to like those two elements. But I didn't want it to be overly chocolatey either.
After looking around, I decided on one chocolate layer, one banana cake layer; all covered in blueberry cake frosting. The number one on top was made with dried blueberries. Little A took a couple of swipes of the frosting, and maybe a spoon of the cake. But the rest of us enjoyed big pieces after we sang "Happy Birthday" :)
For the chocolate cake I got the recipe from Chocolate and Zucchini. All her cake recipes, that I have tried so far, have turned out great. And this one was no different. It almost had a brownie texture and was a hit with the adults. Everyone, including me, was oohhing over the richness of the cake.
For the banana cake, I dug in my archives and came up with this recipe. And this was a favorite of the kids.
Here are the recipes:
Chocolate Cake
(courtesy Chocolate and Zucchini)
2 sticks minus 1 Tbsp butter
7 oz dark chocolate (I used 54 %)
1 cup sugar
4 eggs
a rounded tablespoon of flour
C&Z recommends that you make it a day in advance. But I ended up making it the day of, and it was moist and delicious.
Pre-heat your oven to 350°F. Butter the pan and set it aside.
Melt together the butter with the chocolate. I did it in a microwave heating it for 30-45 sec and then stirring it. I cooked it for 5-6 minutes. After it's all melted, transfer into a medium mixing-bowl. Add in the sugar, stir with a wooden spoon and let cool a little. Add in the eggs one by one, mixing well after each addition. Finally, add in the flour and mix well.
Pour the dough into the pan, and put into the oven to bake for 25 to 30 minutes, until the center is set but still a little wobbly. Let it rest in the warm (switched off oven) for another hour. Then, put the pan on a cooling rack on the counter to cool completely.
Banana Cake
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tspoon baking soda
1 tspoon baking powder
1/2 stick unsalted butter, at room temperature.
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 tspoon pure vanilla extract
2 large eggs, preferably at room temperature
3 very ripe bananas, mashed
2 tbspoon sour cream
1/2 cup milk
Preheat the oven to 50 F.
In a large bowl mix the flour, baking soda and baking powder. In another bowl, whisk together the egg and the butter together. When they mix well and is fluffy add the sour cream and the milk. Whisk well.
Then add sugar slowly to the mix. When it all mixes well, add in the bananas. Add flour to this mix slowly stirring well. I don't have a food processor, so I used a egg whisk and a fork alternately.
Pour batter in the bundt pan bake for 40 to 45 minutes or till the toothpick comes out clean.
Whipped cream topping
Take heavy whipping cream and add in two tspoons of sugar. Whip till soft peaks form. Then add in 1 cup fresh blueberries puree. Mix well.
I put the chocolate layer in the bottom and banana on the top and layered it with blueberry whipping cream. Yummy!


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Sunday, 21 July 2013
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The penniless exiles of Soho A farewell to Soho Pam, the local beggar Pamela Jennings. One time, I listened to a tall, silver-haired man holding court in the smoking area of the New Evaristo Club in Soho, London. Challenged by a fellow drinker to explain why this was the greatest place on earth, he rambled on about the area's much-mythologised history – it had long been the sinkhole of noble misfits from Francis Bacon to Dylan Thomas, all sozzled enough to get along – and claimed that it even had a patron saint. OK, not a saint but a foreign king, who had died a beggar on the streets above us (we were on the lower-ground floor). This king, he said, was buried somewhere close by. How this hard-luck story proved Soho's greatness was beyond me but it was too late in the evening to split hairs. At the time, I assumed it was just another tall tale to add to all the others that clung to this part of the capital. But a quick look at Peter Ackroyd's London: a Biography later revealed it was true: the king was from Corsica; his remains were interred in the churchyard of St Anne's in the mid-18th century. "This penniless exile might almost be considered the true monarch of the area," Ackroyd wrote. Not so long ago, the sad news spread that another of Soho's penniless exiles had died: the beggar Pamela Jennings, better known as Soho Pam, a familiar sight to those of us who drink at the Coach and Horses, the French House or any of the other pubs on what was her nightly circuit. Pam was a diminutive, fortysomething woman with closely cropped hair, glasses that framed curious eyes and an uncanny ability to extract a "donation" from even the most hardened Londoner. Like many, I saw her around and considered her a part of the city – if, indeed, I ever considered her at all. To me she was a stranger, at most an occasional but benign presence in the dimmest corner of my eye. Others I spoke to at the Star and Garter, the Coach and at Trisha's (as regulars call the New Evaristo, after its proprietor) reported a similarly remote relationship but they were full of local lore about money given to her and then returned; about drinks she had bought for hard-up friends; about the "cuddles" she'd give. Those who knew her better celebrated her life in the press and online. Bar Italia posted on its blog: "Goodbye to another proper Soho character"; the artist Robert Rubbish called her the "queen of Soho" and wrote: "She was a very sweet lady and refreshing to see." Alastair Choat, landlord of the Coach, told the West End Extra: "There's a lot of hardcore regulars or locals in Soho that started to look out for her, that she would always come to for a little bit of moral support." With the nearby Crossrail development at Tottenham Court Road Station due to be completed in 2016 and the area's rental prices ever rising, the Soho of popular imagination is fast being swept away, its characters and all, by TK Maxx, Patisserie Valerie and the like. Ackroyd wrote: "In Soho, every street is a memorial" – but now, it seems, even these memorials are fading from view. The Chinese-American geographer Yi-Fu Tuan once posited, "If we think of space as that which allows movement, then place is pause." The strange spaces that surround us are transformed by these pauses, these stillnesses we create whenever we invest a piece of ourselves in our haunts. In some small way, they become our homes. Yet this sense of place is brittle; places change, as do their associations. "There is no there there," wrote Gertrude Stein, recalling a trip she took as an adult to the city of her childhood, Oakland, California, and finding that what intangible connection had made it her own no longer existed. I thought of this as I sat on one of the benches outside the Coach: Soho Pam's "there" is no longer there. Rest in peace. Yo Zushi's most recent album of songs, "Notes for 'Holy Larceny'", was released by Pointy Records (£9.99). His new song "Careless Love" can be downloaded for free here. Follow him on Twitter at @YoZushi81
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The main bug that I am currently working on is to generate MAR files for the different locales we have. This will be one more step towards having nightly updates for all the different locales.
A MAR file (Mozilla ARchive) is basically a zip file but custom made for Mozilla purposes. This type of file is downloaded by Firefox through the update mechanisms; These update systems are used by Firefox to know where the next available update will be.
These MAR files can be partial or complete updates. What does this mean? When you are in the previous release to the new update you just receive a small/partial MAR file which only contains the differences between your current release and the new one. When you skip an update falling behind one or more releases you will get a full/complete MAR file with all the files for the new release meaning that Firefox will download a larger file.
Currently I have been able to create locally with the help of a script a complete MAR file for the French locale. Check the code that I used at the end of this post.
What comes next? I have to make changes to the factory that produces the l10n nightly builds to generate them with the MAR files.
There are many more things to consider but I will skip the details for when I make a little bit more of progress.
To keep yourself up-to-date with this work, CC yourself to the following bug:
Bug 480081 - Generate partial & complete mars for nightly l10n builds
Here is a document explaining what a MAR file is:
NOTE: Remove "dist/l10n-stage" if you run into weird problems
Here is the script I used to create the MAR file (check under dist/update):
# Author: Armen Zambrano Gasparnian
# Contact: email@example.com
# Purpose: Repackage a locale in hg
export BRANCH='mozilla-central'
#export BRANCH='mozilla-1.9.1'
export REPO_PATH='mozilla-central'
#export REPO_PATH='releases/mozilla-1.9.1'
export L10N_REPO_PATH='l10n-central'
#export L10N_REPO_PATH='releases/l10n-mozilla-1.9.1'
export LOCALE='fr'
export EN_US_BINARY_URL="http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-$BRANCH/"
# 1) Get ready
set -ex
# Let's isolate our work depending on the branch
mkdir -p $BRANCH && cd $BRANCH
mkdir -p l10n
rm -rf $BRANCH/dist/upload
# 2) checkout the main repo
if [ -d $BRANCH ]; then
hg -R $BRANCH pull -r tip ;
hg clone http://hg.mozilla.org/$REPO_PATH/ ;
hg -R $BRANCH update
# 3) checkout the locale's repo
cd l10n
if [ -d $LOCALE ]; then
hg -R $LOCALE pull -r tip ;
hg clone http://hg.mozilla.org/$L10N_REPO_PATH/$LOCALE/ ;
hg -R $LOCALE update
cd ..
# 4) generate the configure file
cd $BRANCH
cd js/src
cd ../..
# 5) configure
./configure --enable-application='browser' --with-l10n-base=../l10n --enable-update-packaging
# 5.A) tools needed
make -C nsprpub
make -C config
make -C modules/libmar
# 6) get the en-US binary
make -C browser/locales wget-en-US
# 7) generate the xpi and the installers
make -C browser/locales installers-$LOCALE MOZ_MAKE_COMPLETE_MAR=1
# 8) rearrange the packages in the correct structure for a nightly on ftp
make -C browser/locales prepare-upload-latest-$LOCALE
# 9) list the packages in the correct place, the correct naming and the correct chmod
ls -l dist/upload/latest
ls -l dist/update
# I do not have an ftp server so I won't be running this command
# sh -c 'scp -i $KEY_PATH -r * $USER@$SERVER:$UPLOAD_PATH'
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Thursday, May 14, 2009
HOWTO: Paste to pastebin from the command line
You need the script "paste2oastebin.pl" from http://de.pastebin.ca/tools.php.
Here is what I needed to do on Mac OS X to make it work:
- I needed to have WWW::Mechanize in my Perl modules so I used CPAN's interactive shell to do it:
sudo /usr/bin/cpaninstall WWW:Mechanize
- NOTE: The script points to a specific perl path and that implies a specific CPAN. Remember that we have MacPorts taking preference over default MacOS X installed packages. Use whereis to find this out and compare with the first line of the script.
- Put the script in a folder which is part of your PATH and set the right permissions
Here is how to use it:
- paste2pastebin file_to_submit
It will return you the URL for it. The script has more advanced options.
Errors I found which required installing WWW::Mechanize and the second one I am ignoring it every time:
Can't locate WWW/Mechanize.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /System/Library/Perl/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level /System/Library/Perl/5.8.8 /Library/Perl/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level /Library/Perl/5.8.8 /Library/Perl /Network/Library/Perl/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level /Network/Library/Perl/5.8.8 /Network/Library/Perl /System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level /System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.8.8 /Library/Perl/5.8.6 /Library/Perl/5.8.1 .) at /Users/armenzg/scripts/paste2pastebin.pl line 23.BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /Users/armenzg/scripts/paste2pastebin.pl line 23.
Use of uninitialized value in string ne at /Library/Perl/5.8.8/HTML/Form.pm line 704, <> line 555.
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Monday, May 11, 2009
My first day as a full-timer
I am really excited to become part of Mozilla as a full-time employee. For those who don't know about me here is a real short summary:
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- I am from Spain
- Moved to Canada 3 years ago
- Studied at Seneca College
- Took the two open-source courses in my 3rd year of the Software Development Degree
- I did an internship in the Release Engineering team during the summer
- I have been working on improving the release infrastructure for making different languages of Firefox faster
- I kept on working as a consultant during my last of my degree
- and today I am starting my first day at Mozilla!! (one year and 2 weeks after the beginning on my internship)
You can find me on IRC as "armenzg" on the #build and #seneca channels!
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Jason Carter, the grandson of former President Jimmy Carter and a state lawmaker from Atlanta, said Thursday that he plans to run for governor of Georgia next year, energizing Democrats coming off a 2010 election in which the GOP claimed every statewide office.
Carter's decision resets the 2014 race as Republican Gov. Nathan Deal seeks re-election. Deal already faces two primary opponents and will now have to deal with a Carter campaign that is likely to grab national attention, be well-financed and criticize the governor's ethics and leadership.
Carter said concerns about education and the economy were at the center of his decision to run.
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"I've traveled around the state, and people believe our education system is on the brink. People believe the economy is not working for the middle class, and people want to see an honest government that works for everyone," Carter said in an interview with The Associated Press. "As a state, we can't wait four years to start getting those right."
Later Thursday, Carter took the first steps toward running, filing paperwork with the state to form a campaign committee. He was joined by his wife and two young sons.
Georgia Democrats have been dealing with poor state party finances and a lack of political firepower since Republicans claimed every statewide office in 2010. There's been much internal optimism about the 2016 presidential race and the 2018 governor's race as being opportunities for Democrats, but Carter is clearly betting changing demographics in the state could be enough to carry him to the governor's mansion next year.
"Folks in Georgia are less partisan than people think," Carter said in the AP interview. "They are going to vote for the candidate who is going make education priority and make the economy work for them."
When asked about Carter's announcement, Deal spokesman Brian Robinson said the governor was "focused on keeping Georgia the No. 1 place to do business and creating jobs and developing a skilled workforce."
Carter, 38, was first elected to the Georgia Senate in May 2010 and has been at the forefront among Democrats on issues including education and redistricting. Carter said he plans to stay in the state Senate during his gubernatorial bid. His decision to run for governor was first reported by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
A big question will be how his grandfather will factor into the campaign. The former president said in a statement that he was proud and excited about his grandson's announcement.
"Georgia faces serious challenges ahead and would greatly benefit from a smart and fresh leader focused on improving our schools, creating opportunities for a more prosperous middle class and restoring a sense of trust and transparency back to state government," the elder Carter said.
When Jason Carter first ran for office, the former president didn't start campaigning until a few days before the election. At the time, Carter told The AP he wanted to prove that he could do the hard work on his own and didn't want to be "trading on my family name."
The younger Carter's path would seek to follow that of his grandfather. Jimmy Carter served two terms in the Georgia Senate before running for governor. Although Jimmy Carter lost his first bid in 1966, won four years later.
While Democrats once dominated state politics, the Republicans have been the party in power since 2002 when Sonny Perdue became the first Republican governor of Georgia since Reconstruction. The state has voted for every Republican presidential nominee since 2000, although President Barack Obama garnered 47 percent of voters in 2008. Last year, Obama received 45.5 percent of the vote.
Also on the ballot in 2014 will be Democrat Michelle Nunn, who is running for U.S. Senate. Nunn also hails from a prominent political family; her father is former U.S. Sam Nunn, who represented Georgia for years. Democrats are clearly hoping a strong slate with both Nunn and Carter on the ballot and an emphasis on economic and education issues will connect with not only big-city voters but those who hail from rural parts of the state.
On education issues in particular, Carter has already challenged the governor on an effort to address a financial shortfall facing the state's popular HOPE scholarship program, which is funded by lottery revenues.
Challenging Deal in the Republican primary are state schools Superintendent John Barge and Dalton Mayor David Pennington. On the Democratic side, former state Sen. Connie Stokes on Thursday announced that she was exiting the race for governor and would instead campaign for lieutenant governor.


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Stage Is Set for U.S.-Germany World Cup Matchup
On the eve of arguably the biggest game in U.S. soccer history, WSJ sports reporter Matt Futterman takes a look at four key points to the match, and what the U.S. needs to do to advance to the knockout stage of the World Cup. The game kicks off Thursday at 12pm ET.
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