Piers Anthony
Piers Anthony
Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob is an English American author in the science fiction and fantasy genres, publishing under the name Piers Anthony. He is most famous for his long-running novel series set in the fictional realm of Xanth...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth6 August 1934
land shining sun
Dor woke again as dawn came. The sun had somehow gotten around to the east, where the land was, and dried off so that it could shine again.
writing would-be firsts
I did not know at first that it would be a series; I discovered after the first novel that I had more to say about it, so I did another. And another, and then the readers demanded yet more.
years fiction want
I do one Xanth novel a year, because at the moment that is all that publishers will accept; they don't want any other type of fiction from me, so Xanth pays my way.
may today chance
I have always admired the work of Phil Farmer and was glad for the chance to work with him. Readers today may be too young to remember his classics like The Lovers.
light annoyed waiting
I hope to read a Harry Potter novel soon, to see what it's all about. I admit to being annoyed that many good light fantasy writers have had trouble getting published, in England and elsewhere, when it is obvious the readers were waiting for us all along.
want merit collaboration
What I like least is dealing with publishers who simply don't want collaborations regardless of their merit.
home land florida
I turned my home state of Florida into the Land of Xanth.
fun firsts tape
Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series also shows the potential of lighter fantastic fiction. I read the first, and listened to a tape of a later one, and it's fun.
book editors collaboration
As for collaboration - I have done a lot, 26 books, and found publishers increasingly resistive to them. It's not that the books are bad; editors won't even read them.
princess thinking rose
Princess Rose should indeed be a TV movie, assuming something doesn't go wrong. I don't know how good a movie it will be, because the way movie folk think is different from the way writers think, and I distrust what isn't done my way. This is what I call a healthy paranoia.
humorous writing fantasy
When I started writing this, I found that I simply couldn't take fantasy seriously, so it became humorous, and continued from there.
editors looks cases
If every editor turns you down, maybe you should take a second look at your text, however, just in case.
writing would-be fiction
It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it.
block waiting suffering
One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need.