You've got questions & I've got answers
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puppetmakerI thought I would do something a little different and put the answers to the questions I got yesterday in the body of the text rather than in comment section as I have done before but since it is going to be long, I am putting it behind a cut.
You can still ask me a question and I will try to answer them
I love your works, you are the best Star Trek author, with KRAD coming in second place. Looking forward to reading "After the Fall".
Now for my question, can you comment on a new New Frontier book to follow "Missing in Action"? I enjot the New Frontier line very much, and eagerly want to read more of the adventures of M'k'n'zy of Calhoun-John
Well John I can say that I like New Frontiers a lot too. Heck I am an admiral and an entire alien race in that series. One of my brother's is a diplomat and the other is an engineer. My sister is an admiral too I believe.
He has turned in the next outline and is waiting for the approval but I can say that you won't be disappointed with the book.
I know they're probably all like your children, but which is your favorite costume that you've designed?-Elayne
You are right. That is a toughie since I have made so many. For group I will go with the Labyrinth costume and individual I would say Vincent from Beauty and the Beast.
What have you decided on for your NaNoWriMo project?-Mason
I am in a quandary about that. I have two that are in my head. One I think is not long enough to be a novel but would be a kicking short story or novella with a bit of a Shakespearian twist. The other is one I have been doing a lot of research for and think I can move forward with it and it has a distinctive Asian feel to it.
So when can we expect to see the publication of your Doctor Who story?-J. Alexander
Well pending approval by the BBC, about this time next year I believe.
Allowing for the fact that the Omniverse is infinite and that God, too, is infinite, would you like some toast?-TAC
To which I respond, "A Fish."
Are you and the family planning to travel "Down Under" anytime?-Megan
Peter gets a number of invites from various conventions in that area but it is a matter of the whole family going rather than just Peter and I can't see that happening anytime real soon but if you are talking cosmically then it is on our list of things to do.
What was your absolutely world class favorite project to work on, ever? I figure it was also the most draining, but the one that you would go back to and do it all again if you could.
And it can be anything, personal, professional, extracurricular, anything.-Daven
Well I could say Caroline since she is my daughter and means the world to me. And parenthood has become so important to me and who I am.
Before Caroline....gosh ...there are a couple I am proud of that I participated in.
In my theater career it comes down to two "Man for All Seasons" which I was the ASM on at the Alliance Theater. It was an incredible show with a dynamite cast and a wonderful director. We had a lot of fun the whole time.
Personal satisfaction for what I was able to do had to be "The Invisible Man" by Eddie Lee and Larry Larson. I got stuff to work in there and used my knowledge as a magician's assistant and a puppeteer to make people believe that there was an invisible man onstage. When it worked, it was sheer magic and the audience couldn't believe their eyes. I loved listening to them speculate how we did some of the tricks during the intermission. They never seem to get it right with the exception of a local magician and even he got a few wrong. We used a new type of sound system to throw the invisible man's voice all over the stage and tried a revised version of an older magic trick to make a man vanish in front of you.
In a "But I Digress" column several years ago, Peter recounted the story of how he told you he had feelings for you and asked you out.
How did you get from there to here?
He left out a big hunk of the story like how did you connect afterwards? What made you go out with him after his clumsy attempt?
I think it's cute and I'm a romantic. I want to know more.-Popfiend
I think I have said before that when he told me what was going on with him and his ex-wife, I didn't hear past that because Peter was on my list of last guys to ever get a divorce so I didn't really hear the part of "and I would like to date you," since I was still processing the first part. You also probably know that Peter and I had been friends for a number of years and hung out at conventions.
What happened was that we had exchanged e-mails some time ago for professional reasons since he commissioned me to make a puppet for him. We both were on AOL and could IM each other. So we started talking on AOL. We had long rambling conversations about all kinds of things. We would "talk" each morning online and sometimes in the evening. Finally I went up to his neck of the woods to be his date at the Marvel Christmas Party. We spent a weekend talking face to face and there was a spark there. So I moved up to New York since my career was going no where in Atlanta in hopes of getting things back on track. One things led to another and we have been happily married for over 5 years. This December will be the 10th anniversary of that date.
What's the hardest thing you've ever done?- Paige's Mom
Physically it would be give birth to Caroline.
Mentally it was letting go of a good friend who, eventually, OD on heroin. I tried to help him and we (his friends) tried to get him help but the writing was on the wall that he wasn't going to change so I had to give up someone who made me laugh and made me feel good about myself but the drugs were more important to him than us and he let us know that by his behavior. After he died there were a lot of what-ifs going on in my head but over the years I figured out that I did what I could do for him and he knew I was there for him if he could get clean and stay clean.
I am grateful for the questions. Keep them coming.
You can still ask me a question and I will try to answer them
I love your works, you are the best Star Trek author, with KRAD coming in second place. Looking forward to reading "After the Fall".
Now for my question, can you comment on a new New Frontier book to follow "Missing in Action"? I enjot the New Frontier line very much, and eagerly want to read more of the adventures of M'k'n'zy of Calhoun-John
Well John I can say that I like New Frontiers a lot too. Heck I am an admiral and an entire alien race in that series. One of my brother's is a diplomat and the other is an engineer. My sister is an admiral too I believe.
He has turned in the next outline and is waiting for the approval but I can say that you won't be disappointed with the book.
I know they're probably all like your children, but which is your favorite costume that you've designed?-Elayne
You are right. That is a toughie since I have made so many. For group I will go with the Labyrinth costume and individual I would say Vincent from Beauty and the Beast.
What have you decided on for your NaNoWriMo project?-Mason
I am in a quandary about that. I have two that are in my head. One I think is not long enough to be a novel but would be a kicking short story or novella with a bit of a Shakespearian twist. The other is one I have been doing a lot of research for and think I can move forward with it and it has a distinctive Asian feel to it.
So when can we expect to see the publication of your Doctor Who story?-J. Alexander
Well pending approval by the BBC, about this time next year I believe.
Allowing for the fact that the Omniverse is infinite and that God, too, is infinite, would you like some toast?-TAC
To which I respond, "A Fish."
Are you and the family planning to travel "Down Under" anytime?-Megan
Peter gets a number of invites from various conventions in that area but it is a matter of the whole family going rather than just Peter and I can't see that happening anytime real soon but if you are talking cosmically then it is on our list of things to do.
What was your absolutely world class favorite project to work on, ever? I figure it was also the most draining, but the one that you would go back to and do it all again if you could.
And it can be anything, personal, professional, extracurricular, anything.-Daven
Well I could say Caroline since she is my daughter and means the world to me. And parenthood has become so important to me and who I am.
Before Caroline....gosh ...there are a couple I am proud of that I participated in.
In my theater career it comes down to two "Man for All Seasons" which I was the ASM on at the Alliance Theater. It was an incredible show with a dynamite cast and a wonderful director. We had a lot of fun the whole time.
Personal satisfaction for what I was able to do had to be "The Invisible Man" by Eddie Lee and Larry Larson. I got stuff to work in there and used my knowledge as a magician's assistant and a puppeteer to make people believe that there was an invisible man onstage. When it worked, it was sheer magic and the audience couldn't believe their eyes. I loved listening to them speculate how we did some of the tricks during the intermission. They never seem to get it right with the exception of a local magician and even he got a few wrong. We used a new type of sound system to throw the invisible man's voice all over the stage and tried a revised version of an older magic trick to make a man vanish in front of you.
In a "But I Digress" column several years ago, Peter recounted the story of how he told you he had feelings for you and asked you out.
How did you get from there to here?
He left out a big hunk of the story like how did you connect afterwards? What made you go out with him after his clumsy attempt?
I think it's cute and I'm a romantic. I want to know more.-Popfiend
I think I have said before that when he told me what was going on with him and his ex-wife, I didn't hear past that because Peter was on my list of last guys to ever get a divorce so I didn't really hear the part of "and I would like to date you," since I was still processing the first part. You also probably know that Peter and I had been friends for a number of years and hung out at conventions.
What happened was that we had exchanged e-mails some time ago for professional reasons since he commissioned me to make a puppet for him. We both were on AOL and could IM each other. So we started talking on AOL. We had long rambling conversations about all kinds of things. We would "talk" each morning online and sometimes in the evening. Finally I went up to his neck of the woods to be his date at the Marvel Christmas Party. We spent a weekend talking face to face and there was a spark there. So I moved up to New York since my career was going no where in Atlanta in hopes of getting things back on track. One things led to another and we have been happily married for over 5 years. This December will be the 10th anniversary of that date.
What's the hardest thing you've ever done?- Paige's Mom
Physically it would be give birth to Caroline.
Mentally it was letting go of a good friend who, eventually, OD on heroin. I tried to help him and we (his friends) tried to get him help but the writing was on the wall that he wasn't going to change so I had to give up someone who made me laugh and made me feel good about myself but the drugs were more important to him than us and he let us know that by his behavior. After he died there were a lot of what-ifs going on in my head but over the years I figured out that I did what I could do for him and he knew I was there for him if he could get clean and stay clean.
I am grateful for the questions. Keep them coming.
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Date: 2007-10-19 04:14 pm (UTC)It won't take that long. It was a March book, but it's been pushed back due to production issues with an earlier book, so figure no later than early summer 2008.