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I don't speak Turkish, sorry.
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Inception! Such a wildly inventive narrative and visual feast.
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asked by losryan
Words are my life, so I'll take that as the highest of compliments!
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asked by XxFallenAngel
Typically for a book property to become a film, a movie producer contacts the author or his/her agent, and inquires about the rights to translate his/her work into film. And just because someone buys the rights to do it doesn't mean they ever will. Hundreds of books get optioned by film companies every year, but less than half of them ever make it to a screen near you. This can happen for all sorts of reasons, starting with lack of funding. A huge number of stars must align to get a movie made -- schedules of both actors and crew, funding/budget, having a script that everyone's happy with, and on and on.
And ALL of that stuff would happen without my involvement. My only part in it all would be receiving a nice fat check for the film rights. Once a studio owns those rights, they are under no obligation to include the property's author in the filmmaking process. Only big-name authors are usually afforded such privilege.
Then there's the fact that we have not one book but three in the Dominion Trilogy. Whoever bought the rights to one would want to have the rights to all three, if for no other reason than to keep a rival studio from making a sequel to their film. To do the Dominion Trilogy justice would also require a HUGE special effects budget, and Hollywood isn't known for tossing around that much money unless the property in question is a runaway bestseller.
But hey, the film/television rights to all of my books are available if you know anyone who would like to buy them! -
Flash of inspiration. In my head, I saw a guy on his way to work who saw himself across the street, walking to work. The story came from answering the inevitable questions that that scenario created, mixed with an amalgam of a dozen different genres and ideals that I hold dear.
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asked by apparitionspet
Gettysburg is the only location I've visited recently. I toured the USS North Carolina as a child, and I still remember what that place looked and felt like. For all of the other locations, it was research research research!
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There's no easy answer to this. I write as much as I can whenever I get the chance. When I'm on a deadline, my family works a little harder around me to grant me the time needed to get the work done. I have no daily routine, but when inspiration strikes, I do tend to drop everything and focus on the story. Somehow it all gets done!
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asked by farrtom
Starting with an outline always keeps me on track. I sometimes find myself skipping around a bit, because I'll have some exciting ideas for a scene that comes later in the book, or I'll think of something that works better for an earlier scene and go back to change it. Regardless, having an outline of every major turn in the story keeps me from hitting those speed bumps.
If I ever do hit a bump where the momentum is gone and the story just isn't working, I do one of two things (and sometimes both). 1) Power through. Just keep writing. Even if it's crap, even if it's awful, it's *something* that's down on paper, which can be invaluable to figuring out what works and what doesn't. 2) Stop for a bit and get your mind as far away from the story as possible. The subconscious has a way of working these kinds of things out, and if you give yourself some time, a solution to whatever's holding you up will almost certainly present itself. -
I always assumed that the work was so slow and gradual over the years, that it went largely unnoticed by Rice U's students & faculty. As the book says, it's a project that grew far beyond anyone's expectations, so it was hastily cobbled together, and its home was meant to reflect that as well. It was a place so dangerous to be in, that even the scientists who worked on the machine never dared go into its interior, instead keeping their work to its outer reaches.
If that isn't conveyed adequately in the book, then that's entirely my fault. But I don't think this scenario requires any more suspension of disbelief than accepting that 7 billion people vanished in a single instant. -
I'd probably pick psychokinesis, like Grant. If not that, then definitely Payton's super-fast bursts of speed.
If I could pick from any superpower at all, I'd love to be able to teleport. Driving stopped being fun years ago, when manners went out the window, and cars were to be steered like missiles for everyone else to get out of the way of. -
High Point University in High Point, NC.
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NIGHTMARE was my first book where I didn't have a very strong, clear idea of what I wanted to see on the cover. (This is very unusual for me; I'm very visual and I care deeply about cover artwork, since it's a consumer's first impression of a book.)
The entire concept and execution for this cover is the work of Mr. Paul Higdon, the genius who has created all of my covers (and at the time I write this, is currently working on the cover for VIGILANTE).
The original picture used on the cover is the work of acclaimed Turkish photographer Mehmet Turgut. -
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Because this is a question I get asked often, I've written a blog post about the three symbols that includes images of all three:
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No need to apologize. You're certainly not the first to make the comparison, and I take any such comparisons as the highest compliment. Ted's a gifted storyteller.
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Frank Peretti, James Byron Huggins, Michael Crichton, JK Rowling, Joss Whedon, J Michael Straczynski... dozens of others, but those are probably the most prominent.
Ted didn't actually influence me as much as people seem to want to think. I love and respect Ted tremendously, I think he's a phenomenal talent. And he certainly had some influence in the years before I was published. But does it all start and end with Ted? Not remotely. Others have had far bigger affects on me. -
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. Loving every page of it.
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My birthday is October 13, 1975. I'll let you do the math. ;)
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Printings are done by my publisher according to reader demand. If there were a lot of readers asking retailers in Australia for copies of my books, my publisher might consider reprinting them there.
Another option for you would be to order the books from somewhere here in the U.S. and have them shipped. I realize the shipping costs would be high, but it might be your only possibility of getting them. There are plenty of online stores that still have the books available, including Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Borders, etc. I also have them available at my own online store at robinparrish.com, but you'll want to contact us directly to find out what a shipping estimate would be.
If you don't want to go to this much trouble (and I wouldn't blame you), your final (and much simpler) option would be to buy them as ebooks. My 5 novels are available as ebooks pretty much everywhere that sells ebooks, though I think Amazon's Kindle store may be the only place that has all 5.
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Robin Parrish
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I write words.
