Grasping for the Wind

Week Long Conversation with Christopher Moore

Barnes and Noble is hosting a conversation with Christopher Moore Dec. 10-14 on its new forum, Center Stage. The forum for it is already open for posting questions. There is also a forum post listing his books that is open for conversation. You can also subscribe to the RSS feeds and keep track of the conversations without having to return to the website.

If you don't know who Christopher Moore is, first, where have you been? and second, here's a synopsis from the forum opening post.

"Moore has been compared to such luminaries of irreverent literary humor as Kurt Vonnegut and Douglas Adams, yet Moore clearly follows a demented logic that is all his own. Since the publication of his debut novel Practical Demonkeeping in 1992, he has been staking out a place for himself as the grand jester of contemporary literature. But where does an author start when drumming up ideas for madcap tales with titles like The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove and The Stupidest Angel? 'Usually from something I read," he explains on his Web site, chrismoore.com. 'It could be a single sentence in a magazine article that kicks off a whole book. Ideas are cheap and easy. Telling a good story once you get an idea is hard.'"

Posted by John on November 21, 2007 09:28 AM | Posted to Fantasy
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