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[Cybling] Thanks for coming Brad
[Brad_Sinor] you'rewelcome
[Cybling] You've written a Highlander novel which will be published in 2001
[Cybling] Can you tell us something about it?
[Brad_Sinor] Sure.
[Brad_Sinor] It concerns Duncan andAmanda.
[Brad_Sinor] and is taken from about thefourth year ofthe tv series
[Cybling] How is it different, writing in someone else's world, rather than your own?
[Kai] hello victoriastrauss
[Brad_Sinor] It is occasionally restrictive because youcan't make any major changes to the cannon. But it was a lot of fun
[Brad_Sinor] playing in the Highlander sandbox
[Cybling] You have three stories coming out soon. Where and When
[Cybling] ?
[Brad_Sinor] I'll have one storycomeing out in Dec. in Warrior Fantastic, a daw antho.
[Brad_Sinor] Its part of my Lancelot as avampire series
[Brad_Sinor] Its the thrid one in the series.
[Brad_Sinor] Then in January I will have a story in the anthology SINGLE WHITE VAMPIRE SEEEKS SAME
[Brad_Sinor] Then next Oct I'll have a story in the antho DRACULA IN LONDON.
[Brad_Sinor] Iget dracula involved with Gilbert and Sullivan.
[Cybling] You seem to write a lot about vampires. What's the fascination for you?
[Brad_Sinor] Its an interesting way to tellstories. The Lancelot series started because I hadb een invitedinto
[Brad_Sinor] a vampire anthology, then I found out theguy I waswriting about had once been Lancelot of Camelot.
[Horus] NN ALL
[Brad_Sinor] The dracula story, thesame editor who wanted the lancelot one,asked for that one. Becuase my wife'
[Kai] whoa
[Ryan] lol. Looks like he hit the wrong button.
[Serenah_SS_Suchomimus] lol, yeah
[Kai] lol
[Sinor] Yeah I didhit thewrong buttonb
[Serenah_SS_Suchomimus] Welcome Back, Mr.Sinor! We missed you already! ^_^
[Kai] :P
[Sinor] The dracula story wasbecause My wife and I have done a lot of G and S shows
[Serenah_SS_Suchomimus] Well, I did, anyway
* Serenah_SS_Suchomimus falls silent
[Kai] its ok
* Kai hugs py
[Sinor] I will be eventually doing a novel of the Lancelot books. In face thats what I'm working on now
[Cybling] What do you like to read in your spare time?
[Sinor] Spare time? What's that?
[g]
[Ryan] Hello JBadger.
[Sinor] Actually I read a lot of sf and fantasy,along with mysterys
[Cybling] Any favorite authors that influenced you from the start?
[JBadger] hello Ryan (from the internet room)
[Sinor] I suppose Cherryh, maybe a bit of Edgar Rice Burroughs
[Sinor] When I was a kid I wanted to grow up to be John Carter of Mars'
[Sinor]
[g]
[Cybling] You chose Lancelot as a character. Are you a fan of Arthurian Legend?
[JBadger] I use to read lots of Cherryh -- but been read nonfiction lately
[Sinor] Oh, yes. There is something about thedream that people have seen it for centruies that I thin
[Sinor] I'm begining to think that these machines hate me.
[Cybling] Do you have a favorite "version" of the legend?
[Sinor] Not really. I've used a bit of mallory, a bit of things from other versions.
[Sinor] I've always thought of Camelot as the worlds longest running shared world seriees
[Cybling] What lead you from writing about vampires to writing a highlander book?
[Sinor] I've always been a fan of the highlander series.
[Sinor] I happened to find out that they weredoing d
[Sinor] novels and approached Warner books
[Sinor] It was a total surprise to me when they said "sure"
[Cybling] How did you break into it? Do you have an agent? Did you approach them cold?
[Sinor] I don't have an agent. I just happened to meet theeditor of the
[Sinor] series at a con and talked to her then.
[Cybling] Sounds like a real stroke of luck!
[Sinor] Exactly
[Cybling] That's about all the time we have, thanks for joining us :)