#fcpaules

Objects Tied into Braids

I don’t know what part of this you’re asking is disrespectful.

In braids and dreads, I’ve seen: puka shells, beads, and gold bands. I think it’s a cool concept as long as these objects aren’t like taken off corpses or are large and humorous. And that she doesn’t put them in odd parts of her hair like in the middle of the braid or secured between her scalp and the braid. 

Thank you! I’ve never even typed in Cyrillic before - I’m sure trying will fry my brain.

Nope. Bobo happened along the way.

I did know from the very beginning that this was going to be a series (contrary to some people’s beliefs, especially the ones who consider the closure at the end of High Wizardry very complete). But initially I wasn’t sure where I was going with it except in very general terms. By the end of Deep Wizardry, though, I was starting to get some ideas of some things that were going to have to happen, and of how much further this could go if I got lucky and the sales were good enough to keep me at the same publisher. …But then the publisher (Dell) changed hands (managerially) and “changed directions”, as they like to say, and just after I turned in High Wizardry they started the process of offloading all their midlist authors and concentrating their attention and promotion on their bestselling writers. (In the process, for example, throwing Jane Yolen overboard. How stupid can you get?)

There has never been any overarching blueprint or master outline. But as I was working on HW I started to see the path ahead much more clearly. (Which got kind of frustrating when Dell dumped me; A Wizard Abroad wound up being published first in the UK, by Transworld / Corgi, and then by the SF Book Club, before Jane went on to wrangle the new YA imprint at Harcourt and bring me aboard). While I was working on Abroad I already knew that the events of The Wizard’s Dilemma would have to happen, and could see the difficulties that would come of them; and while I was working on Dilemma, the arc that kicks off in Holiday solidified a lot further. And so forth. This is the way it always seems to go in this series: things build and develop in three- or four-book stages, pulling in data from earlier books and making more sense of them in the overall picture.

Yet it would also be true to say that one specific issue-arc that launched in SYWTBAW has not yet paid off, has been more or less constantly on my mind since 1983, and will finally start its resolution in book 11. And whatever you’re thinking it is, I guarantee you that’s not what I have in mind. Seriously: this particular thing, no one will have seen coming. Promise.

Thanks!

I figure that the person I’m arguing with probably won’t be converted, but there’s always someone reading who hasn’t made up their mind yet, and maybe I can influence them.

At least one, but I think actually a few, of the LBD fan-run tumblrs/pages/twitters are Portuguese (Socially Awkward Darcy is the one I know for sure), so it makes sense that there would be a Portuguese wiki, since it's fanbase there is so involved.