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[StStephen909]

i just read The Calling and The Stolen Throne by David Gaider and i cant get enough. i highly recommend them if any of you are like me and are not quite ready to leave Ferelden just yet. Ive been looking to see if there is another novel in the works. Does anyone have any clue? I sure hope so.

[David Gaider]

I really don't mind if someone considers my writing to be "amateurish", or whatever other adjectives they care to use. What matters to me is that the books have been well-received, and that many people appear to be enjoying them. Some people are always going to voice their opinion as if it's an objective fact, especially when it comes to evaluating literature or art -- ever hear of a critic? -- but so long as someone doesn't feel the need to have everyone agree with their own tastes I don't really see the issue. I certainly wouldn't be the first author to have someone hate his style.

And this is not to say my writing is perfect, by any means. I do need to improve, and I'm probably a harsher critic of my own work than anyone I know. Feedback is wonderful (and thank you to those who provide it), but if any writer was going to allow what someone else thinks of his style prevent him from putting his work out there there probably wouldn't be many books published.

I intend to keep writing. With any luck my verbs will eventually stop adverbing, too.

[David Gaider]

addiction21 wrote...
Maybe it is not the place to ask but does BW own the rights to the entire DA universe?

Of course we do. It's our own intellectual property -- that was sort of the point.

Or maybe a better question would you or others care to continue writing books for the DA universe? and would that be allowed?

We can write them, if we wish, and do whatever we like with the setting. If any third party wishes to use our intellectual property they would need to license it -- just as someone would need to license a D&D product, for instance.

[David Gaider]

Stippling wrote...
Mr. Gaider, do you intend to write more Dragon Age novels soon? Do you have any new ideas in the pipeline that you can share with us?

I don't know if there will be more Dragon Age novels by me -- that's up to the publisher, at least in part, as well as my ability to cope with both writing at work as well as at home. That's not easy. That doesn't mean there might not be Dragon Age novels by someone else, though. We have other writers here who know the Dragon Age universe at least as well as I do, after all.

As for ideas, I always have ideas. I don't think it would make for an appropriate discussion, however.