On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 03:08:10 -0400, Lawrence Watt-Evans <lwe@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
> What it lacked was
>>emotion, in particular towards the end of the book. Still, Watt-Evans is
>>a decent craftsman in writing, and I'll stick with the reissues in
>>paperback to see how things go.
>
>Interesting that it didn't work for you. I tend to agree with you
>that I'm a better writer now than I was then, and that the Obsidian
>Chronicles are superior to the Ethshar books, but _The Misenchanted
>Sword_ remains by far my best-selling novel to date. _Someone_ out
>there likes it.
>
>Oh, and no, it wasn't a fix-up, nor was any ****tion of it ever a short
>story.
Also - it did have emotion in the end - just it's more real-world
emotion instead of what we find more commonly in fiction.
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