More on “You Never Know”
Mar
10
2025
My Thursday 27 February post—in which I shared the inauspicious beginnings of Moby Dick, which is now regarded as a Great American Novel and classic literary work—has prompted a more personal reflection on the theme of “you never know.”
During the round of interviews that accompanied publication of The Gathering of the Lost, one of the interviewers questioned why I wrote fantasy fiction if I wanted my work to endure.
The “blue” UK cover
I didn’t know Moby Dick’s rags-to-riches history at the time, but my answer was still that we can’t know what will endure. All we can as authors is write what we love and do so to the very best of our ability. The rest is absolutely out of our hands.
Full jacket: the original US cover
