The lack of comedy is usually a deliberate choice in that I tend to be addressing fairly serious themes (some writers - Iain Banks, for instance - can do both at the same time but it doesn't quite fit with my style of writing). The Chen books are written in a way that is closer to (I think!) my basic personality - I'm not a particularly sombre person!
Sometimes things do creep in - I intended some of BANNER OF SOULS to be amusing, ditto EMPIRE OF BONES, and this prompted some reviewers to wonder whether I realised I was being funny (!). I have quite a dry, British sense of humour sometimes and I think this throws people.
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Date: 2007-04-22 10:09 am (UTC)The lack of comedy is usually a deliberate choice in that I tend to be addressing fairly serious themes (some writers - Iain Banks, for instance - can do both at the same time but it doesn't quite fit with my style of writing). The Chen books are written in a way that is closer to (I think!) my basic personality - I'm not a particularly sombre person!
Sometimes things do creep in - I intended some of BANNER OF SOULS to be amusing, ditto EMPIRE OF BONES, and this prompted some reviewers to wonder whether I realised I was being funny (!). I have quite a dry, British sense of humour sometimes and I think this throws people.