Comments on dan powell - fiction: Chinese Whisperings: The Red Book - review.

What Dan said. I LOVE my Kindle.

2010-01-21T19:26:51.476+01:00

What Dan said. I LOVE my Kindle.

I'd bite your hand off or give my right one for ep...

2010-01-21T18:56:54.891+01:00

I'd bite your hand off or give my right one for epub versions of the book as when I increase the PDF files text size the formatting goes a little bonkers. :)

I have on my to-do list - to convert the book to e...

2010-01-21T12:22:21.571+01:00

I have on my to-do list - to convert the book to ePub format - compliments of Jen B who did it and said the quality of conversion was excellent - in terms of layout.

Neither Paul nor I have eReaders so it was a bit hit and miss creating the eBook.

I'm so chuffed to hear you have to put away a chunk of time even with the second read. Really inspires me to go hard this year.

Got my copy of the Red Book Reversed, thanks, and ...

2010-01-21T07:51:19.316+01:00

Got my copy of the Red Book Reversed, thanks, and it's all cued up in my Sony reader ready for when I get a few hours to blast through a chunk of stories. Having read once I know how much I'll want to keep reading so a decent chunk of time is a must. :)

Did you get a copy of The Red Book Reversed. There...

2010-01-20T23:48:03.455+01:00

Did you get a copy of The Red Book Reversed. There's a perfect excuse to dive back and read again :)

We wored hard and pushed all the writers to ensure there was a consistency of quality the whole way through. I'm certain at times I wasn't the writers favourite person, as I pushed hard, asked for another rewrite, twiddled, played and re-arranged things... but all the authors are still talking to me... so I couldn't have been that horrible to work with. And glad it has paid dividends.

Thanks for stopping by, everyone. The Red Book rea...

2010-01-20T07:53:18.207+01:00

Thanks for stopping by, everyone. The Red Book really is a great read. I keep having the urge to dive back in. Something I should have mentioned in the review was the consistent quality in the collection to. There really wasn't a story I didn't enjoy.

Hats off to the authors and Jodi and Paul for pulling it all together.

Really excited to be part of the next collection.

thanks for the great review Dan. We were all a bi...

2010-01-20T04:08:03.051+01:00

thanks for the great review Dan. We were all a bit nervous and ready to bite back the pain of total rejection ... but it never happened......phew! Thank you for your honesty and indepth study of the collection.

Cheers
Annie

Wow, thanks for such an amazing review! (I wrote '...

2010-01-19T12:14:41.247+01:00

Wow, thanks for such an amazing review! (I wrote 'Heartache' by the way) It has been a thrilling project, and seeing it being well received is so exciting.

As one of the writers, it's also very interesting to hear feedback about the holistic experience of the book, as I only read the story before mine, and then wrote heartache, so during the creation phase, it was impossible to know it as a whole. What you say about the benefits of the interwoven stories demonstrates just how much work and careful thought Jodi and Paul put in to weave them all together.

I will be writing for the next one too, hooray! Looking forward to getting to know you more through that :)

Thank you so much Dan for this amazing review. I ...

2010-01-19T06:24:37.063+01:00

Thank you so much Dan for this amazing review.

I feel like a job well done after reading this - and love your feedback on the individual stories and the anthology as a whole.

I never considered 'One in the Chamber' to have a claustrophobic feel about it, but now that you've mentioned it - it certainly does. I can remember editing it with Paul and can sense that it wasn't only the darkness I could feel, but a sense of uncomfortable containment.

When you tell people to write 'mainstream' fiction they all bring their own slants to it, and I'm grateful for all the slants and different dimensions the authors bought to their individual narratives and the anthology narrative as a whole.

And again, as with Jen's review, jumping for joy to see you were compelled to keep reading, which was why in the intial conceptual stages I chose to create the anthology this way (and then see it to Paul as an idea which would work, then to eight other writers) I have only ever read two anthologies back to back. I always get distracted from story to story - thus I wanted the reader here, to keep on moving from story to story. And to see it has been achieved brings to fruition the promse from Paul earlier last year ... that when we were finished the view from the top was going to be awesome. And it is.

Thank you so much for taking the time to review The Red Book and we're very pleased and excited to have you onboard for the next anthology. Are we for you Laura as well!

I will be joining you in writing for the Jade Book...

2010-01-18T22:33:10.181+01:00

I will be joining you in writing for the Jade Book. I'm very excited about the project!