Text Interviews
May 10, 2010
Text interviews:
A Q&A Interview with David Drake posted by Travis Heermann at his Blogging the Muse site, November 14, 2009.
Text interviews:
A Q&A Interview with David Drake posted by Travis Heermann at his Blogging the Muse site, November 14, 2009.
Podcast interviews:
Each interviewer has a thrust of his own, so these interviews aren’t auditory cookie-cutter productions, exactly….
In episode 28 of the SF Signal Podcast, Fred Kiesche and Patrick Hester chat with Dave on February 14, 2011.
A new podcast interview is up at The Dragon Page July 12, 2010.
Rick Kleffel interviewed Dave at World Fantasy Con and has posted it at his Agony Column podcast site, February 8-9, 2010.
Dear People,
I turned in THE LEGIONS OF FIRE not quite a month ago–140,845 words including the front matter. I’m overall pleased with the novel, the first of a four-book fantasy series for Tor, but the thing that pleases me most is that I had a chance to use my background in history and Latin, my undergraduate majors. This is an extremely erudite book, even for me. continue reading…
Video Interviews:
Moses Siregar III posted a YouTube video in four chunks of the panel “The Continued Viability of Epic Fantasy” recorded at the World Fantasy Convention in Columbus OH October 30, 2010. Dave is on the panel with John R. Fultz, Blake Charlton, David B. Coe, and Freda Warrington.
Dear People,
Folks frequently ask me how long it takes to write a novel. (People ask me a lot of questions that presumably seem simpler from the outside than they do to me.) The answer depends on a lot of things, in particular the length of the novel. (I average about a thousand words of rough draft per day; thus a novel of 135K words takes around two weeks longer to write than a similar book that was 120K words long.) continue reading…