Save the Date · 4:32pm Jan 17th, 2014
One of my Christmas presents was being invited to the Royal Canterlot Library. This was exciting, surprising, and also kind of surreal. I spent the last few weeks mulling over the interview, doing a terrible job of answering it, and just got the word that it will be posted at their site on March 7th, and here at FIMFic on March 14th. Looking at the RCL's posting schedule, it's pretty cool that I get to go in amongst other authors I respect.
To celebrate, I commissioned the artist of the original cover art, Daisy Azuras (who is fantastic and does great work, so throw a commish his way if you need 'em), to update it specifically for the story. Here's the finished piece:
As a further celebration, while I was working on the sequel, I ran across another deleted scene in my files, a little hundred-word snippet I wrote at the time. I'll post it then.
Congrats! Now you can get out your own refridgerator magnet and join me on the Vault door.
Yeah, I filled out that interview and revised it a whole bunch of times. I'm still sitting around wondering if I'll sound like an idiot when people read it...
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We'll be idiots together.
1727526 Hooray! Oh, wait...
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We can start:
A whole idiots' club!
Congrats!
Mike
What do you even say when a former awards judge starts winning awards himself--and so soon after he retires?
I guess, what I always used to say: This really is the fandom of opportunity.
More things to look forward to? Neat!
How weirdly appropriate.
Congratulations.
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Not that I think you're accusing anyone of anything, but for the record, I should specify that Old Friends went through the same impartial nomination and scoring process all of our other stories do, and the first RBD knew of it was when it got accepted.
It is good stuff — and if we hadn't thought so we'd have made that decision in total silence, without the awkwardness of letting him know. That's why we keep the judging process quiet; it frees us to be honest.
Really, though: if you look at where judges in other disciplines are drawn from, and what skills they have to have in order to recognize and rate quality, the fact that RBD's a great writer himself should come as no surprise.
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The trouble with text-based communication is that you can't hear the other person's tone of voice. I assure you, I was being quite sincere. Long before the RCL was a thing, I thought it was a pity that RBD could never get into the hall of fame himself, since he was its curator.
Luckily, a free market environment--like this fandom--abhors a vacuum.
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Text-based communication can suck that way.
Ah, okay. Clarification appreciated.