Amazon tells me it's shipping on the 25th.
Q & A is out
- Thread starter JD
- Start date
I ordered "Q&A" from my locally owned bookstore on Friday. It'll be a week or so before it gets here, but so what. Work, writing projects and other distractions will make that time fly by.
Gatekeeper
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I checked my Barnes & Noble today, but no dice. 
I checked my Borders Express. Not there.
Mine should be here by Wed. Two day shipping via Amazon.
I have a friend at the local Borders who knows to give me a call when he sees it. 
I believe they do that when you have a reserve on it. 
Yes, but I don't even have to reserve it, and I get the call before the peple who did reserve it. 
Man that joke backfired. 2nd time today... Sigh..
Anyhoo, who is going to replace Nave and Battilgia seeing as one's dead and the other assimilated?
And why introduce a new character only to have them killed?
Anyhoo, who is going to replace Nave and Battilgia seeing as one's dead and the other assimilated?
And why introduce a new character only to have them killed?
Because they can't kill off main characters and it's unrealistic to not have deaths in this sort of situation. IMHO, anyway.
(Speaking as one who has done that very thing.)
SPOILERS!!!!!! 
And it's much better to let the reader get to know the characters a little bit before letting the axe fall, in order to avoid "Redshirt Syndrome".
Take Nikki Woods from Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Upon first watching "Fool For Love", her death didn't really affect me much.
Even though she got a little development before the series ended, it wasn't until after reading KRAD's Buffy novel "Blackout" that her death would bring a lump to my throat. He turned a fairly two-dimensional red-shirt into a fully realized character-- a character that I liked and was sorry to see go, even though I knew it was inevitable.
Take Nikki Woods from Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Upon first watching "Fool For Love", her death didn't really affect me much.
Even though she got a little development before the series ended, it wasn't until after reading KRAD's Buffy novel "Blackout" that her death would bring a lump to my throat. He turned a fairly two-dimensional red-shirt into a fully realized character-- a character that I liked and was sorry to see go, even though I knew it was inevitable.
Thank you for that, Turtletrekker. One goal I've had with several of my tie-in works (in particular The Brave and the Bold, The Art of the Impossible, and Blackout) is to take one-off characters who were basically created to be killed (Nikki, Decker, Keogh, Cavit, etc.) and give their deaths a bit more poignance by having them be people rather than redshirts.
Anyhow, Marc's question will be answered within the first 30 pages (or so) of Q & A.
Anyhow, Marc's question will be answered within the first 30 pages (or so) of Q & A.
captcalhoun said:
SPOILERS!!!!!!
Yes, but not for Q&A. 'sides, I didn't bring it up.
True. Man of Steel should've given you fair warning.
