An Interview, and an Object Lesson

[lagilman]

The interview with Moi is here

Surreal: Would you classify the bulk of your work more as horror or dark fantasy?
LAG: Absolutely dark fantasy. Except the romantic stuff. That’s horror.



The Object Lesson is to Doublecheck Your Sources, because the interviewer -- rather than asking me -- took her biographical info from an on-line source that had the facts wrong.

ETA: they have now corrected the error.


So. For those of you wondering, the opening paragraph of this interview is NOT my life, it belongs to Jennifer Heddle. Somewhere, somehow, someone who Didn't Doublecheck Their Sources got us conflated, and has been spreading the error since then.

*shakes head sadly*


The actual Q&A part of the interview is true, tho.

Comments

[ex-fashioni.livejournal.com]

You hired Jen Heddle? Oh man, what a funny, small, strange little world this is. She's my new editor at MTV Books.

[lagilman]

erm, either I'm sorry, or you're welcome, depending on how well the arrangement's going at the moment... *grin*

[ex-fashioni.livejournal.com]

*snicker*

So far so good. I'll report back after I get my revisions.

[debg.livejournal.com]

If either of you hired Ruth Cavin at any point in your careers, I want to know who your plastic surgeon is.

[lagilman]

Ruth was there when... hell, they erected the Flatiron Building around her....

[debg.livejournal.com]

That was precisely my point, beloved. You'd have to be a hundred and twenty three at least. GREAT face lift!

She's got N-SK on her desk, and she's on holiday until the end of August, damn it.

[ex-fashioni.livejournal.com]

Please, to send roll of paper towels to wipe Diet Coke off monitor...

[dianora2.livejournal.com]

HEY!

[dianora2.livejournal.com]

OMG THAT IS HILARIOUS. I'm so sorry. *g* I assume you've e-mailed the writer for a correction?

[lagilman]

I had informed her of the error when she showed me the proofs. She claims that she sent the e-publisher corrections, but they chose to run the original. I have sent them a letter as well.

[delkytlar.livejournal.com]

As weird an error as it is, it fills in a few blanks in what I know about Jen. Still, it shaved a good five years off you, so it's not all bad.

[(Anonymous)]

Surreal: Who are your main influences?

L.G.: Peter Beagle. John Irving. Nora Roberts. John Updike. Anne McCaffrey. Italio Calvino. Ernest Hemmingway. Susan Cooper. Chaucer. Eclectic, moi?

*sigh* Someone else who loves Calvino. (Not to mention the others.)

Bless you.
______
Dennis