![]() His books have sold an estimated 17 million copies worldwide. Occupation: Author of more than 20 novels, novelettes and graphic novels, including the “Memory, Sorrow and Thorn” series, the “Otherland” series, the “Shadowmarch” series and the “Bobby Dollar” series. Even in my ‘Overland’ books, it’s horrendous in places, but no matter how much things change, there will always be good people, kind people, creative people struggling against the tides. “He’s a good guy and a really good writer, even long before he had this kind of mega-success.” But if there’s one difference he finds between himself and Martin, it’s his sense of faith in humanity. He and his wife have three teenaged children and they both spend significant time as chauffeurs all over Santa Cruz County from their home in the Soquel hills.Īs for Martin and the “Game of Thrones” empire he has inspired, Williams is happy for his friend’s staggering success. Williams, who grew up in Palo Alto, has been busy building his alternative world while still maintaining a remarkably busy family life in the “real” world. Thus was born the germ of the story that would guide his next trilogy. “I thought, these people have gone through the equivalent journey that I’ve gone through in that period of time,” he said. He began thinking about revisiting a set of characters he hadn’t thought about in 25 years and the idea appealed to him. “For one thing, I’m a totally different person than I was when I wrote this originally.”īut that reason not to write the sequel morphed into a compelling reason to do so. “I remember sitting there in bed, thinking of all the reasons I was going to tell her why I couldn’t write (a sequel),” he said. Williams remembers the day a few years ago when his wife, former publisher-turned-writer Deborah Beale, asked him why he never entertained the idea of doing a sequel. ![]() The first book in that trilogy, “The Dragonbone Chair,” was published in 1988, and was praised in epic-fantasy circles for tweaking and subverting the tropes and conventions of fantasy that had been in place since the heyday of Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings” trilogy. Other than the “Memory” trilogy, he’s produced two other series of epic novels, one of which - the “Otherland” books, a near-future four-novel series that combines science-fiction and virtual-reality elements - has made him a literary star in Germany and other parts of Europe.īut it’s the “Memory” trilogy and its world of Osten Ard that he’s returning to in his first effort at sequelizing his work. ![]() Last week saw the release of his most recent novel, “The Witchwood Crown,” a 30-years-later sequel to his landmark “Memory, Sorrow and Thorn” trilogy, the third book of which Martin was so eagerly awaiting when the two authors first met back in the early ’90s.Īt 60, Williams - who will appear at Bookshop Santa Cruz on Sunday - can look back on a successful and varied career as a writer. Today, Williams may be finally on the verge of getting more widespread recognition for his role in shaping the literary world of J.R.R. Martin has even pointed to the Santa Cruz-based Williams as an inspiration and influence on his own work. ![]() When are you going to finish it? Get the hell out of here and go do some work.”įrom that inauspicious beginning grew a relationship of mutual admiration and respect. “No, seriously,” Martin said, glaring at Williams.
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