Sword of Truth Miniseries!

Oh boy... Well, the SoT series started out great (apart from the ridiculousness of the fact that names like Zeddicus Zul' Zorander and Dalton Campbell appear on the same page), but somewhere along the way the repetition of the novels' pattern started to grate on my nerves. "Look! It's impossible for them to survive this / solve that problem!" turned to "Look! At the last moment Goodkind invented the one exception of the rule the reader could never possibly hit on!" The first four entries were really good, but from Soul of Fire on the series went downhill until it turned to the utmost crap this side of a Forgotten Realms dime novel. As far as the TV adaptation is concerned, I'm not holding my breath. If Raimi finds a really likeable Richard and a Kahlan the audience immediately falls in love with, it might work, but unlike Goodkind he should know when to stop.

Zorro

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Gratch

QUESTION: Annerinas: Will you, Mr. TG, actually ever go write a non-fiction book exploring fully your ideals and philosophy, getting it out of your system. So that it's not being presented in the next book at the expense of the actual story?

Translation: Will you please change that way you think and write, stop using your mind, stop being an individual and instead start writing books like every other hackneyed Tolkien clone on the fantasy shelves. Answer: NO
The Premise of this question and all that it entails is beneath contempt. To say that I view this notion with indignity hardly begins to cover it. What you are seeing with my novels is something unique. They are not like all the other fantasy books. A tiny group of fantasy fans happens to like things the way they are and only wants more of the same. These few do not under any circumstances; want anything to change or anything that requires thought. They want everything to stay static and simplistic. For these reasons (and others), these people do not like what I write and they never will. They even hate that my books exist, that I write things that dare to uplift and inspire.
Rather than simply reading and enjoying the many books available that they like, they spend their time railing against the one author who is different.
What I have done with my work has irrevocably changed the face of fantasy. In so doing I've raised the standards. I have not only injected thought into a tired empty genre, but, more importantly, I've transcended it showing what more it can be-and is so doing spread my readership to completely new groups who don’t like and wont ready typical fantasy. Agents and editors are screaming for more books like mine.

They can’t find any-for 3 reasons. One, copying innovation is an impossibility. Two, individually cannot be copied. They don’t grasp the essence of my work. What they end up with are authors who imitate some of the nonessential elements unique to my books, believing they must be the secret to success, much as my publishers at first believe that it was the red dragon that defined my work.

Why are editors trying to get more books like mine? Because any one of my backlist sells more copies in a month than most fantasy authors' books sell in their entire run. NAKED EMPIRE has been on the NY Times list for two months now. Far more importantly, I break genre lines and draw my ever growing sales from the much larger pool of general fiction readers who embrace my books.

Do you have a source? The spelling mistakes make me suspicious. Not that I doubt that the man who considers himself the most outstanding person since Gandhi could have actually said that (it just takes a glance at his online shrine, uh, homepage to believe he could have said that), but I don't think this text is the genuine article, it's grammatically too flawed.

Zorro

There's nowhere I can't reach.