Letter from Heather

Letter from Heather

I am soo glad you and your mom finally wrote a Pern novel together saving up to get it!!!!

I fell in love with your mom’s work first with The Lady a book I usually reread once a year!!!! I’m Irish Canadian and that lovely novel gave me back a lot of Ireland to me!!!

Then I found Harper hall trio and Hello Pern i never looked back!!!

I was sad when I heard the Pern tv series was a bust but glad that Ron Moore wouldn’t let the network he was attached to mess with the Pern lore!!!! I don’t get why US production companies can’t just adapt novels why they have to mess with them change character names for no reason cut key characters out or whole segments of the book!!!!

Will you be writing your own series soon?

I wish you guys would start up the Pern Calenders again by the time I got hooked into Pern they had stopped!!! Getting TV or movie calenders here in Northwestern Ontario is hit or miss!!! The only reason I got my Star Wars and Spike(Buffy vampire slayer)is thanks to my lovely pen pals!! Which I have many in UK Australia even one in Peru she’s my Bon Jovi buddie!!!

I share my brithday month with your mom my brithday is April 10 I think Cat’s brithday (The lady was set around that date?) So here’s looking forward to many more Pern novels and new series from you and maybe ask your mom if she has any plans to do a novel about Cat when she’s grown up?

May the force be with you!!!

Heather loyal Canadian fan!!!!

Heather,

First let me apologize for not getting back to you sooner. I’d written a reply and was researching something for you which caused my computer to lock up, crash and burn.

I’m glad you liked Dragon’s Kin. Mum and I are talking about writing more stories following the characters as they grow to adulthood.

I’m working on completing Dragonsblood, which starts about fourteen Turns after Dragon’s Kin ends. As for my own series, I definitely have several ideas in mind. Right now, however, I’m concentrating on Dragonsblood and the Third Pass.

Adapting anything from one media to another is always difficult. The general rule with books and film/TV is that for every book that is made into a film or TV series, there are tens of thousands which aren’t. I, personally, want the best possible film made of Dragonflight and, after having dealt on the sidelines with various attempts to bring the Dragons of Pern to life, feel that a live-action feature-length adaptation of Dragonflight is the only way to go. A TV series would just not be as faithful.

Adapting is a difficult task. One simply can’t take every scene in a book and put it in a movie. If you did that with Dragonflight, you’d have over 5 hours of film! And it wouldn’t work. Some of what we’re willing to read can’t be translated to film and some of what we’re willing to put up with in a book will make us squirm with impatience in a film. The trick in adapting is to be true to the heart and spine of the work. When that occurs, you’ll find dialog or even whole scenes being added which actually add to the work.

I can’t say about Pern calendars but you might try www.emerchandise.com for calendars. Maybe you’ll find something there that takes your fancy.

I don’t know if Mum plans to write any more books following “The Lady”. My suspicion is that most fans want more Pern novels!

Cheers,
Todd

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