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The Usual Questions

edited by Ali Kayn

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We ask the usual questions of people we interview. Can you help build our list? We are looking for answers from authors, artists and filmmakers.

At the 1999 Australian Worldcon your editor asked every professional she could find to respond to these questions.

If you are someone who is mentioned in our pages (for example, book reviews, film reviews, features), or are a published author who would like to participate, please contact us.

We are especially keen on hearing from writers and readers who would like to participate in the Series Series. We loves series, if you know what we mean.

As the answers are collected and compiled, they will be added. All the pages under construction as awaiting the answers, but they may already have autographs and photos.

Index of authors
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Read the list of questions

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Jeff Apter
Goldie Alexander
Erryn Arkin
Russell Blackford
Paul Brandon
C. J. Cherryh
Paul Collins
Rowena Corey Daniells
Jack Dann
Cecilia Dart-Thornton
Rjurik Davidson
Stephen Dedman
Hazel Edwards
Janet Evanovich
Kerry Greenwood
David Gerrold
Lee Harding
Richard Harland
Norman Hetherington
Robert Hood
George Ivanoff
Ian Irvine
Anna Jacobs (a.k.a. Shannah Jay)
Rob Jan
Susan Johnson
Robert Jordan
Ali Kayn
Dave Luckett
Anne McCaffrey
Beverley Macdonald
Sean McMullen
George R. R. Martin
David Miller
Kim Miller
Jenny Mounfield
Brad (B. J.) McBride
Mr Squiggle
K. S. (Karen Simpson) Nikakis
Sally Odgers
Kate Orman
Jody Lynn Nye
Robert O'Reilly
Terry Pratchett
Sally Rogers-Davidson
Mark Shirrefs
Robert Silverberg (under construction)
Lucy Sussex
Janeen Webb (other construction)
Sean Williams
Tess Williams(under construction)

The Questions

Has your interaction with fans, for example, at conventions, affected your work?

Is there any particular incident (a letter, a meeting, a comment that stands out?

Do you have a favourite author or book (or writer or film or series) that has influenced you or that you return to?

Who is the person you would most like to be trapped in a lift (elevator) with? or a spaceship?

Who is the person you would most DISlike to be trapped in a lift with? Or a spaceship?

What would you pack for space? (Is there a food, beverage, book, teddy bear, etc that you couldn't do without?)

What is the most important thing you would like to get/achieve from your work?

What is the special satisfaction of your work?

Just the facts:
Born:
Resides:
Bibliography/Awards:

Web site: (your web site/facebook etc)

(to copy these questions, select the text and use Ctrl C or click here

e-mail to editor (a) festivale.info (you can work it out ;-)) or snail mail to the address below.

Autographed photos look great on the pages, check out some of the existing pages for examples. We can create them by combining scanned autographs and photos.