‘The Familiar’ is built on the idea of a solid architecture, but it’s not set in stone. It is up to me to provide the books that make such a structure feasible and intriguing enough to gather readers for that voyage.’ ‘My intention is to write 15 volumes - three seasons - and then I will have a good sketch of the fourth and fifth.
‘Aimee was in favor of not eliminating that performative element entirely,’ Danielewski says. ‘There are other books that feel more performative - ‘Harry Potter’ - and there is this wonderful intrigue, a co-creating, a sensation of that with the audience as they wonder what is going to happen next.’ He’s been discussing those ideas with fellow Los Angeles writers Aimee Bender and Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum. ‘’Lord of the Rings’ was a set of books in which the world had been conceived before the characters were placed within that context,’ he explains. How much the form should solidify over time, versus what he might do to be flexible to the way the story starts to form as it gets out in the world, is the ‘Lord-of-the-Rings’-versus-’Harry-Potter’ dilemma. The novel is designed to accommodate, anticipate various platforms.’ĭanielewski was paid a reported $1 million for the first 10 volumes he’s thinking of them as two 5-volume seasons, like a television series.
We’re constantly open to new ideas - where will we be in 2014? Maybe digital releases every week, every few months a trade paperback or hardcover.
It’s possible that schedule could be accelerated. ‘I can’t write something that takes months and months to read if we’re releasing one every three or four months. ‘Volume’ speaks to it being a little different from a standard trade paperback book,’ Danielewski said by phone Monday. ‘They’re not like ‘House of Leaves,’ or ‘Only Revolutions,’ each volume. ‘The Familiar’ is planned to be released in 27 volumes the first 10 will be published by Pantheon, in 3- to 4-month increments, beginning in 2014. Danielewski, the author of the mind-bending novel ‘House of Leaves’ and ‘Only Revolutions,’ a National Book Award finalist, is going where Charles Dickens went before: he’s writing a serial novel. This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links.
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