Comment Of The Week: from Elizabeth (Liz) Gatens
“Brilliant, gripping, fantastic backstory: my only gripe is you write great characters I love and then you kill them! I cast my vote for GATHERING in complete good conscience that I think it deserves the award.”
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(Liz means the Gemmell Legend Award, by the way.)
I alluded to the reason why characters you love may die in my books in a post titled: Romance vs Reality: War & Conflict in Epic Fantasy and “The Gathering of the Lost.”
(Just click on the title to read.)
Liz is a speculative fiction author herself and the current secretary of SpecFicNZ. She features in the “Here’s SpecFicNZ–Christchurch” series, here.