Harry Connolly

Harry Connolly

  • Commented on Too Many Thoughts About Genre
    Excellent. When your book is published, drop me a note reminding me of this conversation, and I'll help spread the word on social media....
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    So where does "ordinary citizens" facing threats from the "seats of power" fit into this scheme of things? That depends on the answers to a lot of additional questions, I think. How much of the story is focused on the...
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    First thing I want to say is that I'm pleased to see so many low fantasy recommendations coming up. Anyone who wants to add more titles, please do. As for engagement, the issue is more complex than it seems at...
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    Thank you all for the kind words. Allen Thomson, I haven't read the Dying Earth books (I've heard they're great, but at my age I don't think I'm going to look back so far) but I would classify Fafhrd and...
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    Rat Queens is brilliant. But yeah, there's low fantasy out there, but it can be a chore to find it....
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    Elderly Cynic, I know a lot of people with no interest in reading my darker, more violent works. To be honest, if I soft-pedaled the tone in a marketing pitch, I'd be tricking people into reading a book that would...
  • Posted Too Many Thoughts About Genre to Charlie's Diary
    In one of my previous guest stints on Charlie's blog, I wrote a post about low thrillers and high thrillers. If you don't want to click through and read the whole thing, here's the Twitter version: high thrillers deal with seats of power and show the inner workings of government agencies/other powerful organizations as they deal with large scale dangers like coups d'etat or bio-terrorism, while low thrillers deal with ordinary citizens facing smaller threats, like professional criminals or a serial killer. Those distinctions were at the front of my mind when I sat down to write One Man: a City of Fallen Gods Novel. I wanted to try an experiment, to create a fantasy that felt huge, but had very small stakes. No Dark Lord. No invading demon army. No impending magical cataclysm. I wanted to write a story about a nine-year-old girl who gets kidnapped by gangsters because of something stupid her mother did, and about her neighbor--a man bearing many old scars, not all of them visible--who tries to rescue her. That was it. The stakes are one life, an orphaned little girl in a city full of them. A girl with only one person left in the world who cares what happens to her. But, with magic. A fantasy version of a low thriller.
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    I read (and enjoy) all of these except Decrypting Rita. Good stuff. The webcomics I follow that you might like are: Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, which is a nerdy joke-of-the-week comic that often makes me laugh aloud. The Non-Adventures of...
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    These are great covers....
  • Commented on Even More Obligatory Author Shilling
    Confession: I'm not planning any more Marley Jacobs books. As far as I'm concerned, A Key, an Egg, an Unfortunate Remark is a stand alone novel. What I'd really like is for this sort of book to become a well-established...
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    Thank, you guys. I appreciate everyone giving the books a try....
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    Dirk, you can absolutely have that. That's the sort of villain I put into this book....
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    Not on my part, but I'm a visual idiot. Duncan (he created the cover) might have done it deliberately, though....
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    Sorry for the lack of a link. I am still figuring out the nuances of Movable Type. I thought the post would remain unpublished until I was ready, but oops. There's a link to the sample chapters now....
  • Posted Even More Obligatory Author Shilling to Charlie's Diary
    Harry Connolly posting again, while Charlie hammers away at his work. I'll confess that I was startled when I saw Elizabeth Bear's earlier Obligatory Author Shilling post. Sadly, my first thought was "Is that even allowed?" As in: Are we...
  • Commented on Every [ART] A Painting
    Thank you! Doing this sort of analysis makes me a better reader and writer. I just wish it made me a faster one, too. FOR EVERYONE interested in a brilliant discussion/discourse on POV and closeness, check out Sherwood Smith's take...
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    Sherwood, I look forward to reading that!...
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    dsrtao, that's excellent. One thing that struck me that you didn't mention was that Graduation happened in indeterminate years, as though it was a whimsical thing, and not structured or authoritative at all. Very interesting. :)...
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    Arnold, I hope you enjoy the book. As for the state of the reader, that's really outside the scope of what I'm talking about. I'm really just looking at the text and what it's trying to do. Whether the reader...
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    Stein on Writing did this a bit--very helpful--but I wish there had been more. In fact, it's my hope that other people will start to do this on their own sites. I think it would be interesting....
  • Commented on Let's Talk About Running A Successful Kickstarter Campaign
    Re: audiobooks. I have no competency there. I can't even listen to audiobooks of my own work. The guy who narrated Child of Fire was great, but his voice was so different from the voice in my head that I...
  • Commented on Let's Talk About Running A Successful Kickstarter Campaign
    David, I don't have any personal recommendations there. Sorry. I did all the fulfillment myself....
  • Posted Every [ART] A Painting to Charlie's Diary
    Do you guys follow Every Frame A Painting, on YouTube and Vimeo? Film editor Tony Zhou makes short video essays examining individual directors and individual techniques, and for someone like me who loves movies (that most 20th Century of art...
  • Commented on Let's Talk About Running A Successful Kickstarter Campaign
    I'm glad it was useful....
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    Tim, I've looked into Patreon. Two problems with it. First, I just don't write that way. Release a finished chapter, then go on to the next? I can't do it. I do too many passes and jump around too much....
  • Commented on Let's Talk About Running A Successful Kickstarter Campaign
    I want to pause a moment to thank everyone who has said kind words about my books. That really is the best thing....
  • Commented on Let's Talk About Running A Successful Kickstarter Campaign
    Jocelyn, that's an excellent question. Kickstarter is designed to help people realize a single discrete project. Sometimes it's something the creator intends to sell (which is what I'm doing). Sometimes it's something they intend to give away, or that will...
  • Commented on Let's Talk About Running A Successful Kickstarter Campaign
    No worries at all. And I'd hate to misgender someone....
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    Justin, I didn't know about the pronouns. Thanks for pointing that out. I've changed them in the post. As for the fulfillment, I'm just going by what's in Update #34, where a self-described fan named Max offers to distribute the...
  • Commented on Let's Talk About Running A Successful Kickstarter Campaign
    Surtac, I don't know a lot about Palmer, but I do know that some of her rewards were incredibly expensive--flying to visit fans in person and stuff like that. But she's a woman, so she takes grief that I don't...
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