Insgiht into the Writer's Mind

[Steve]

I was trying to find out when the sequel to Eragon which is the first
book in the Inheritance Trilogy came out. The second book by the way
is 'Eldest' and should come out in the fall. On the Random
House/Eragon website is a transcript of a casual discussion between
Philip Pullman, Tamora Pierce, and Christopher Paolin.

It's just three authors of fantasy discussing the nature of writing
and it is very insightful.

I highly recommend it to everyone.

"Philip Pullman, Tamora Pierce, and Christopher Paolini Talk Fantasy
Fiction"
By Dave Weich, Powells.com

http://www.randomhouse.com/teens/eragon/news_interview.htm

Here is a small sample-

Pullman:
"It's always seemed to me that this is what literature does: it is a
kind of school of morals. Just as you were saying about readers
learning about what it's like to be honorable, they can also learn
through literature what it's like to be cowardly and see the
consequences of that. And see what it is like to be a murderer, and to
feel what that is like. It is a kind of place where moral conundrums,
moral dilemmas, moral puzzles are acted out. Where moral solutions are
found. It's a safe place where this can happen, but it's also a very
truthful place. And it's a place where we can suffer in absentia, as
it were, by proxy — we can suffer, we can learn, we can grow by proxy,
whether it is a great issue of life and death or whether it is, ..."

Just passing it along.

Steve/bboyminn