This is the blog post version of the talk I gave at the New York Tolkien Conference last summer (2025). It also revisits a few of the things I said in my Mythmoot talk from a few years before. But all in all, it’s about the writing of The Silmarillion Primer, a book which I promise is about to drop soon. Since it’s a bit long, I’ve made this just part 1. This one’s about the characters in The Silmarillion.
Read the doom that is writtenTag: writing
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This might be hard to articulate, but I’m going to give it a try. It’s not complicated in itself, just complicated to convey, maybe.
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I don’t usually talk online about my actual day job. But today I’d like to. Just a tiny bit.
So I’m a senior production editor for Macmillan and I work almost exclusively on books for Tor (i.e. the Tor Publishing Group) and its genre imprints:
(more…)- Tor (sci-fi/fantasy)
- Forge (mystery/thriller/Western)
- Nightfire (horror)
- Tor Teen | Starscape (younger readers)
- Tordotcom (experimental speculative fiction)
- Bramble (romance)
Foreshadowed and Foresung 