[alison]

Dear all

A great suggestion from whitesilkbreeze - a Q&A thread in which you can ask all your searching questions about Pellinor, and I will attempt to make up answers, er, research them, when I'm able to get online here...maybe a small caveat: no questions on the future of Maerad and Cadvan! :eek: That hot and steamy topic is well debated on other threads...and for this thread, try to stay fairly strictly on topic. And if you can limit it to five unanswered questions at a time (if there are that many to be asked) your humble author would be grateful - ;)

Alison

[Fionnoula]

Great idea... :D

I have one question for now...

What actually happened to Cadvan when the Landrost captured him?

I can't remember if it ever says.. :o

[whitesilkbreeze]

Yay! *cheers*

Second question: What were you thinking when you finished the first draft of The Gift?

[melliyna]

This is a great idea! Okay - one question for now.

1. Where did Cadvan and Saliman meet? What were the circumstances? Is Cadvan completely straight? (okay - very random question I know but I have this theory about him and Saliman that would be interesting to confirm)

[owleye]

would u like your books to be made into movies?

[alison]

Whew! You're certainly a curious lot!

What actually happened to Cadvan when the Landrost captured him?

Hi Fionnoula - Cadvan mentions a little of what happens in Rachida, when he talks about being shown the Landrost's mirror pool so he can look on the return of the Nameless One and despair before he dies. It's a little difficult to know details, since Cadvan is so reluctant to speak about his experience, but fairly clearly he has been tortured, and probably in some way that afflicts his mind. The wound he talks about all through The Gift, that has weakened his magery, is a result of his time in the Landrost's dungeons, so it's probably a safe bet that it was some kind of mind torture.

What were you thinking when you finished the first draft of The Gift?

Actually Whitesilkbreeze (I'm sure I've confessed this before) so far I've finished every book in tears...something about the emotional catharsis of it all, I guess! But I think I also felt total disbelief that I had actually reached the end...

Where did Cadvan and Saliman meet? What were the circumstances? Is Cadvan completely straight? (okay - very random question I know but I have this theory about him and Saliman that would be interesting to confirm)

Hi Melliyna - Cadvan and Saliman met when they were both students in Norloch - Saliman travelled north from Turbansk specifically to study with Nelac, who was Cadvan's mentor at the time. Is Cadvan completely straight? I'm not quite sure, I haven't really thought about it. Is anybody? Certainly those two have a very deep friendship...but I'd be surprised if it was more than that.

would u like your books to be made into movies?

Hi Owleye - if someone made a beautiful movie out of The Gift, I would be very gratified, but I can't say it has been an ambition for the books - for me, they are books first and last, and books offer an imaginative freedom that movies just can't. I do know something about the movie industry, and I know how difficult it is. For one thing, something like this would require a king's ransom of a budget...To be frank, if someone wanted to pay me a lot of money to make a movie from the Pellinor, which is fairly unlikely, I would be very pleased - I'm a little tired of having no money - although I would have some concern, after Ursula le Guin's experience with the Earthsea adaptation, about what how it was adapted. The fact is that writers really have very little to do with movies, and once the rights are sold have no control over what happens. JK Rowling was a bit of an exception to this rule, I think, but it's fair to say she has a great deal of pull...

[Tari]

I know this one has probably been answered elsewhere. but when does the Crow come out in Aus?

&

Hav u ever met Catherine Bateson, through your poetry?

I'm sorry if these are a lil off topic but i'll be quiet after i know.

~ Tari
**It has returned: Evil Grin!**

[Thirrin Thar]

How big a part will Hem play in the defeat of the Nameless One? I think it says near the end of the Gift, when they discuss Enkir's mistake in thinking that Hem was the Foretold, that he will still be important, so will he be with Maerad and Cadvan at the final battle? Will Zelika?

Sorry, that's probably too many questions from one person!

XxXx

P.S. PLEASE don't say that you can't answer these, and that we'll have to wait and see! I hate that x

[alison]

Hi Tari - lovely to see you back!

The Crow is (theoretically at least) out in Australia next May/June - the same time as it emerges in the UK. So the UK readers are catching up...

And yes, poetry is a small world: I first met Catherine years ago, long before she started writing YA books (and long before I did!)

How big a part will Hem play in the defeat of the Nameless One? I think it says near the end of the Gift, when they discuss Enkir's mistake in thinking that Hem was the Foretold, that he will still be important, so will he be with Maerad and Cadvan at the final battle? Will Zelika?

Hi Thirrin

This is a difficult question to answer, partly because I don't want to post any spoilers, and partly because - gasp! - I don't know the full story yet, having not written the book. Though I have several ideas. I will say, though, that in The Crow Hem's importance to the whole quest becomes much clearer. And that, like Maerad, it's crucially to do with his Elidhu heritage...

[Tari]

Hi Tari - lovely to see you back!

The Crow is (theoretically at least) out in Australia next May/June - the same time as it emerges in the UK. So the UK readers are catching up...

And yes, poetry is a small world: I first met Catherine years ago, long before she started writing YA books (and long before I did!)

I knew it! :D :p Sorry. Thank you Alison. it will hopefully be out then, just in time for my birthday!! :D YAY!!

i have one more question, two actually.

Is this thread related only to the books or is it bout your work in general? because im interested in your poetry also.

General: Would you ever try another genre of fiction or just stick to fantasy and poetry?

~ Tari

P.S. if the last question is irrelevant tell me and i shall begin another thread for them. Cheers.