Daniel’s Comments (group member since Sep 08, 2021)

Daniel’s comments from the Daniel M. Bensen's Q&A group.

No, I trust my agent. And I've got more stories where that one came from.
My current Plan B (Plan A is always "write the next book") involves New Frontiers, but I'll give The World's Other Side some more thought too.

if you mean "this author Q&A" google "Author Q&A goodreads"

Ha! My agent thinks The World's Other Side is unpublishable, since it's about a sympathetic terrorist. (see here for more details: http://www.thekingdomsofevil.com/?pag... ). So it's in my "trunk" along with New Frontiers and The Sultan's Enchanter. I have some vague ideas about finding a publisher for these trunk novels after I've made a bigger name for myself as an author. And if that doesn't work, I'll self-publish them.

Hi Kacy!
After Man by Dougal Dixon. I must have been 8, and it scared the hell out of me! Especially the "slobber" (an arboreal ambush insectivore related to...possums?) But I rediscovered it when I was 11 and loved it. I've found speculation is a good way both to teach and learn something. "Here is a fictional example of a real process"(for example convergent evolution in Dixon's porpins). Or "here is a book on foundational papers in ecology. It's not so boring if you imagine aliens at the same time" :)

No this is what I meant by 'this'
You're blowing my mind, man!

When is your next comic book coming out?
ooh yes!
Current status of the as-yet-unnamed sequel to First Knife:
script: 4/5ths written
art: pencils for first 4 pages
Our plan is to make a pretty, colored sample of scene one from issue one, then shop it to publishers.
If you want some sneak peaks, follow Artyom on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ohotnig/ He sometimes posts tantalizing sketches such as this one: https://www.instagram.com/p/CP56Tk9nBhV/

And if by "this" you mean this Q & A, I searched for "goodreads author Q & A." :)

Speculative biology is the art and science of made-up creatures. I use the term interchangeably with "speculative evolution." In the case of Junction and Interchange, the biology in question is aliens (plus a few Earth-descended organusms) that spilled out of various artificial wormholes onto the surface of an exoplanet (Junction). They've been competing and evolving there for 100 million years.