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
book self ongoing
I maintain an ongoing survey of Internet Publishing and self publishing, so that it is now possible for any writer with a book to get it published at nominal cost or free, and to have it on sale at booksellers like Amazon.com.
editors looks cases
If every editor turns you down, maybe you should take a second look at your text, however, just in case.
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.
want merit collaboration
What I like least is dealing with publishers who simply don't want collaborations regardless of their merit.
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.
writing would-be fiction
It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
character aspect novel
No novel is a clone of any preceding one, though with a background cast of characters and things that has grown to thousands, there are many familiar aspects.
horse definitions wonderful
A horse is wonderful by definition.
elements want guilty
I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.