Enjoy my interview with Professor of Humanities & Liberal Arts at the University of Louisville and Author, Michael Williams. He is also known as the bard of Ansalon in Dragonlance sourcebooks.
You can find Michael Williams on his website: http://www.michaellwilliams.net/, and on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Mythical-Realism-The-Michael-Williams-Page-128713900543978/
Intro
Welcome to another DragonLance Saga Professionals episode. My name is Adam and today I am talking with a Professor of Humanities & Liberal Arts at the University of Louisville and Author, Michael Williams. He is also known as the bard of Ansalon in Dragonlance sourcebooks.
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Discussion
- How did you get started at TSR?
- You note that you owed Margaret Weis with your writing career in the Dragons in the Archives collection. Can you expound on that?
- Have you noticed a change in readers’ consumption preferences? Are some story formats more or less challenging or more or less popular?
- Interconnected, interwoven, sequential
- Do you see any patterns in publishers, authors or readers as a writer?
- Specifically with social media guiding awareness
- What is it like returning to Dragonlance?
- Can you tell us how that happened?
- Over the years do you have a favorite Dragonlance story, poem or novel that you have written?
- What is more important to writing, experience or imagination?
- You just released the last of your City Quartet novels a couple of years back, can you tell us something about the complexity of indirectly connecting stories?
- What are you working on now?
Links
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Williams_(author)
- https://www.facebook.com/Mythical-Realism-The-Michael-Williams-Page-128713900543978/
- http://www.michaellwilliams.net/
- https://seventhstarpress.com/books/michael-williams/
Original works
- From Thief To King
- A Sorcerer’s Apprentice (1990) ISBN 0-445-21054-0
- A Forest Lord (1991) ISBN 0-446-36146-1
- The Balance of Power (1992) ISBN 0-446-36244-1
- City Quartet
- Trajan’s Arch (2010) ISBN 0-9827149-4-7
- Vine: An Urban Legend (2012) ISBN 978-1-61318-125-6
- Dominic’s Ghosts (2018) ISBN 978-1-948042-58-1
- Tattered Men (2019) ISBN 978-1-948042-86-4
- Arcady
- Arcady (1996) ISBN 0-451-45598-3
- Allamanda (1997) ISBN 0-451-45609-2
Dragonlance novels
- Weasel’s Luck (1988, Dragonlance Heroes) ISBN 0-88038-625-8
- Galen Beknighted (1990, Dragonlance Heroes II) ISBN 0-88038-921-4
- The Oath and the Measure (1992, Dragonlance Meetings) ISBN 1-56076-336-1
- Before the Mask (1993, Dragonlance Villains) ISBN 0-09-931571-8 ISBN 1-56076-583-6
- The Dark Queen (1994, Dragonlance Villains) ISBN 1-56076-925-4
Outro
And that’s it for my interview with Michael Williams. He was incredibly gracious with his time. What do you think of his writing? Do you have a favorite poem of his? And if you could have him write another Dragonlance novel, what would it be about? Feel free to email me at info@dlsaga.com or comment below.
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This channel is all about celebrating the wonderful world of the Dragonlance Saga, and I hope you will join me in the celebration. Thank you for watching, this has been Adam with DragonLance Saga and until next time Slàinte mhath (slan-ge-var).
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