“ You could strategy it strictly as a video recreation -- many do -- however as quickly as you push beyond the surface, you end up building relationships with fellow gamers, musing over storylines, sharing frustrations and triumphs in a manner
that punctuates time. Whereas she's not at present enjoying WoW (having sworn off its siren call
to devote her time to writing -- and then having become
a brand new York Occasions bestseller!), she responded
enthusiastically to our curiosity, producing an interview filled with
gaming, WoW, fantasy, science fiction and the timeless
themes that tie these worlds together. It's no stretch of the imagination, then (or is it, perhaps, solely about
stretching the imagination?) to think about the impression a game
such as World of Warcraft may need on the fertile mind of a fantasy writer.
Let's soar right in -- as a result of appropriately sufficient, that is the modus operandi of this
week's profile subject, blogger/cartoonist/gag
author/self-proclaimed "older" participant/sci-fi author
John Zakour. A current overview of Zakour's The Flaxen Femme
Fatale does a neat job of summarizing his outlook: "I am always glad to see new books on this collection come out, as there is a severe deficit of comedic hardboiled science fiction adventures on the market, and John Zakour has filled that niche fairly adeptly," wrote the SF
Site reviewer. ”