I started to read Dragon’s Kin yesterday, and I could not put it down and next thing I know it was already 2:30 a.m. pst San Jose, CA time. With the book completely read from start to finish, all in all it took me less than 10 hours to do so. Is Dragon Bloodlines going to a longer book? Because I want a book that will last a while for me to read.

Janice,

Congratulations on such a quick read!

Dragonsblood will be a good bit longer, Dragon’s Kin was only 80,000 words while Dragonsblood is around 135,000 words.

However, I should point out that it only took me about 10 hours to read “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoneix”. I think that sometimes it’s the shear pleasure of the book that propels us through them in record time. I can’t guarantee that you won’t find yourself finishing Dragonsblood in one night for the same reasons that I finished “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” in one night — in fact, I rather hope you do!

Cheers,
Todd

Hi! Todd

One of my sons,just went though my Treasure box,and had a
laugh at my Edgar R Burroughs books,and when I told him that was the way they use to do the covers, and if you read that sort of book, you did it quietly, how did you feel about your Mum writing those sort of books?

My Boys read them too, the eldest said, the only thing he couldn’t understand when I was reading DUNE, it was, “One more chapter,then I’ll get tea”of course he has read Dune now,but I did put my foot down, on him taking my old Comics Buck Rodgers, Flash Gordon and Brick Bradford [Time Traveller].

He did borrow the Burroughs’s, Martian series, I think Thuvia Maid of Mars caught his eye.

Bats

Hi Bats,

In Dragonholder I go into some detail of what I thought of Mum’s covers. But I was reading “Spacecat” by Ruthven Todd when Mum’s “The Ship Who Sang” was published in F&SF (or, more accurately, “The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction”) — and a picture of a cat in a spacesuit bouncing on the Moon was far more interesting than a picture of a peeled banana floating in space!

I read loads of Edgar Rice Burroughs in my teens and enjoyed them for what they were and the times they were written in. I’m glad to hear that you passed on the gift of reading to your sons!

Cheers,
Todd