I had immediate success in the sense that I sold something right off the bat. I thought it was going to be a piece of cake and it really wasn't. I have drawers full of - or I did have - drawers full of rejection slips.
quote by Fred Saberhagen
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
I guess if one set of my books was selling like Stephen King's, and the other wasn't selling at all, editors would want me to do the ones that sold like Stephen King's. But they seem to be willing to let me pick what I want to do next.
quote by Fred Saberhagen
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
The advice would be the same for any kind of fiction. Keep writing, and keep sending things out, not to friends and relatives, but to people who have the power to buy. A lot of additional, useful tips could be added, but this is fundamental.
quote by Fred Saberhagen
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
The comments I most appreciate come from ordinary readers who've happened on one of my books at some time of stress in their lives, and who actually credit the book with helping them through a bad time. It's happened a few times in forty years.
quote by Fred Saberhagen
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
I doubt I'll ever do another book collaboration; I've been spoiled. Roger and I both happened to move to New Mexico at about the same time, when we each had a family of young kids to raise. Socializing seemed to lead naturally to working together.
quote by Fred Saberhagen
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
There are interactions with characters within the game which I think are pretty neatly done considering the limitations that you have to work with. I mean, a computer can't really generate a character that talks back and forth with you successfully.
quote by Fred Saberhagen
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
The Swords were still interesting but by then a cast of characters had started to appear and go on from book to book, and other things about the world began to feel constricting. And there were other things I wanted to do, so I closed the series up and stopped it.
quote by Fred Saberhagen
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!