Eating the Fantastic

Episode 283: John Jarrold


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Join John Jarrold for dinner as we discuss his first Eastercon 53 years ago, his "obsessive" love for J. R. R. Tolkien, the best commercial deal he ever did, how to dispassionately judge the writing of people you already know, his editorial encounter with Michael Caine, the bidding war over George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones, how he learned to write editorial revision letters writers would understand, the ways in which working with authors of science fiction is different than in the wider world of publishing, when it's time for an author to reinvent themselves under a pseudonym, splitting one's time between the business and artistic sides of publishing, what he means when he says getting published "is the jam on the bread, it's not the bread," the sorts of submissions he's seeing too much and too little of at his agency, plus much more.

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