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Monday, June 30, 2008

Edits for The Trouble With Demons

They're heeeere! My editor Anne Sowards sent me her editorial notes for The Trouble With Demons -- editorial notes being her suggestions for "making the book even better." Click on the link to go to Anne's page on Penguin's website. My editor is absolutely adorable and delightfully quirky. ; ) And for a peek into what Anne thought after reading TTWD, she said that "your readers are going to have a ball with this new adventure; I know I did." One of the many great things about Anne is that we have exactly the same vision for my books and characters, so all of her suggestions for improving it were right on target. I'll be working for the next two months to get the edits done and the final manuscript back to her by the end of August. For all of you soon-to-be-published authors, that's the average length of time for an author to get the edits done -- two months. You gotta work fast and work hard. But not to worry, your editor will be there to bounce ideas off of.

Today we start a couple of days (or maybe a week) of playing "Cast My Characters." We did it before with the MLTF characters (see "Fun Stuff to Read" for the links to those posts), now let's have fun with the new characters in A&M. If A&M were made into a movie, what actor do you see playing which character? We had a blast with this last time; join in the fun again! For today's blog, which actors should play Rudra Muralin, Carnades Silvanus, and Banan Ryce?

Now I'll need some help with Rudra Muralin and Banan Ryce, because while I know what they look like, I don't have a specific actor in mind to play them. For Carnades Silvanus, I had him cast the moment I saw Jason Isaacs in The Patriot. His character in that movie was a British officer who took sadistic to a whole new level; he was evil for the fun of it. But I simply love Jason's cold, aloofness for Carnades Silvanus.

So, who do you think should play Rudra Muralin and Banan Ryce? And I am open to other choices for Carnades Silvanus . Let me know what you think.

Lisa

Tomorrow we'll cast Archmagus Justinius Valerian and Sedge Rinker (the chief watcher).

5 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

oooooooooh jason isaacs. yum.

i don't really know about casting the others... i'm really bad at this sort of thing (i usually have an actor in mind for maybe two characters and the rest i make up in my head), but has jeremy irons been used? he should be used somewhere.

July 1, 2008 at 1:28 AM  
Blogger Lisa Shearin said...

Hmmm, Jeremy Irons. Nope, I haven't used him yet. Let me take a look and see if he matches up to anyone.

July 1, 2008 at 8:31 AM  
Blogger Tia Nevitt said...

He does look perfect for that role. He was just chilling in The Patriot.

July 1, 2008 at 9:55 AM  
Blogger Lisa Shearin said...

No one does cold & creepy (yet hot) like Jason Isaacs. ; )

July 1, 2008 at 11:17 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

that is true i think he could work some black gardiuan robes ;)

Rach 2 lazy STILL for a Open ID

July 4, 2008 at 2:59 PM  

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