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I am still setting up and settling in to my new office, which entails among other things going through shelves and containers and sorting, tossing, revaluating, and filing Stuff.
Among which Stuff I found a copy of the February 1991 LOCUS in which I was interviewed by Charlie Brown (who has, alas, recently passed away; he and I shared a fondness for the composer Dmitri Shostakovich--in his CD collection Brown had a very interesting piano reduction of the 10th Symphony. But I digress.)
I'm pretty sure I must have been interviewed at the Con Digeo NASFiC in early Sept 1990. The Highroad trilogy, which I discuss a little bit in the interview, was published by Bantam Spectra in February, June, and September of 1990 (just in case you thought the trick of publishing a trilogy or series of books close together was a purely new innovation these days).
However, at the time of the interview I had some months before gotten word from Bantam that they were not going to buy another book from me. I met the DAW Books editors for the first time at this convention, and spent time with them and, memorably, with Melanie Rawn and Jennifer Roberson (soon to become my partners in crime--I mean, in collaboration). About eight months after NASFiC, Sheila Gilbert at DAW bought my novel JARAN, which was the "first novel" published under my now pen name Kate Elliott (Jaran hit the shelves in June 1992).
So, I'm likely being interviewed in September 1990. Bear in mind that my daughter was born in mid-September 1987 and my twin sons in August 1989.
Herewith, what I said in answer to a question about juggling writing and motherhood.
I have three kids under the age of three. Thee twins were a year old in August. If anyone wants to know if you can have young children and write at the same time, you can. It's really hard, but you can if you have to do it badly enough. When you have kids, you learn a lot you never knew. I used to need a four-hour uninterrupted block of time to write, in a library or in a house that was totally empty. What you learn when you have kids is, that's all bullshit. If you've got a half hour, you go and do it. You learn to discipline, to click in, click out immediately, and go in and start writing instead of going in and staring at the screen and saying, 'What am I doing now?' And then a certain amount of the money I make from writing is set aside for babysitting. I've got about four weeks of babysitting money set aside now, so I can get someone in four hours a day, four of five days a week.
P.S. Damn, I look so young in that photo. Or I feel so old now. I report, you decide.
Among which Stuff I found a copy of the February 1991 LOCUS in which I was interviewed by Charlie Brown (who has, alas, recently passed away; he and I shared a fondness for the composer Dmitri Shostakovich--in his CD collection Brown had a very interesting piano reduction of the 10th Symphony. But I digress.)
I'm pretty sure I must have been interviewed at the Con Digeo NASFiC in early Sept 1990. The Highroad trilogy, which I discuss a little bit in the interview, was published by Bantam Spectra in February, June, and September of 1990 (just in case you thought the trick of publishing a trilogy or series of books close together was a purely new innovation these days).
However, at the time of the interview I had some months before gotten word from Bantam that they were not going to buy another book from me. I met the DAW Books editors for the first time at this convention, and spent time with them and, memorably, with Melanie Rawn and Jennifer Roberson (soon to become my partners in crime--I mean, in collaboration). About eight months after NASFiC, Sheila Gilbert at DAW bought my novel JARAN, which was the "first novel" published under my now pen name Kate Elliott (Jaran hit the shelves in June 1992).
So, I'm likely being interviewed in September 1990. Bear in mind that my daughter was born in mid-September 1987 and my twin sons in August 1989.
Herewith, what I said in answer to a question about juggling writing and motherhood.
I have three kids under the age of three. Thee twins were a year old in August. If anyone wants to know if you can have young children and write at the same time, you can. It's really hard, but you can if you have to do it badly enough. When you have kids, you learn a lot you never knew. I used to need a four-hour uninterrupted block of time to write, in a library or in a house that was totally empty. What you learn when you have kids is, that's all bullshit. If you've got a half hour, you go and do it. You learn to discipline, to click in, click out immediately, and go in and start writing instead of going in and staring at the screen and saying, 'What am I doing now?' And then a certain amount of the money I make from writing is set aside for babysitting. I've got about four weeks of babysitting money set aside now, so I can get someone in four hours a day, four of five days a week.
P.S. Damn, I look so young in that photo. Or I feel so old now. I report, you decide.
