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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kapture" data-source="post: 2458353" data-attributes="member: 7645">The author of the Time article was fatuous and rather nasty. Come on, Lewis a Death Eater? It doesn't matter how churchy he is (and I'm fairly un-churchy myself), I think he took an interesting and proactive stance both in how he wrote about people, and belief, and in how he thought about the value of imagination in children. Pratchet is a fantasy author, hangs out at cons, knows the fans. More importantly, knows many of the authors. I think I heard him say at a reading that he didn't sell the movie rights to his books because he's rich enough as is. I don't think his objection to the Time article is about insecurity. It's about Rowling's insincerity, which is really glaring, and her interviewers total lack of a grasp on the genre which he is criticizing. I can only imagine that he finds it vaguely annoying that a lot of good writers are ignored by the press when they fawn over one writer who's a gauranteed attention getter.Rowling is pretty conflicted about her work. I personally think that's because she's had a very atypical career for a fantasy writer, or a writer in general. Not many real people, or real writers, have her kind of rags to riches career: three books and bang, straight to the top of the charts. As she's quoted at the end of the time article (and I'm paraphrasing): I could write something horrible after Harry, and people would still buy it.  It doesn't surprise me that she fusses about the genre lable. Like it or not, genre is a qualitative judgement for a lot of people. If she's not sure her work is her best, I suspect she's even more leery of other people dismissing it with the "wrong" lable.</blockquote>

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