Robert
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David Dalglish:
Hello, I finished “the keepers” earlier this year and I absolutely love them. Thanks for writing them! Talked so much about them that my partner started reading them lolz Spoiler*(I guess) Thanks for including some gay/lgbtq+ content in the books. Is this something that occurs in your other books? Also if I loved the soul keeper trilogy, which of your other books do you recommend that I check out?
David Dalglish
This answer contains spoilers…
(view spoiler)[Hey, I'm glad you enjoyed the books so much!
The short answer is, you won't find too much in anything pre-Soulkeeper, barring a single relationship that starts to blossom near the end of the Shadowdance series.
As to why, I went into detail here: https://www.goodreads.com/questions/1...
I'll go ahead and repost my answer here as well, to a question asking me if there were more lgbt characters in my books:
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"Going to try to answer this as honestly as possible, so here goes.
I was taught really terrible things as a child about LGBT people. I no longer believe those things, and as an adult, I've been working (slowly) to make my fictional worlds better reflect the world as it is, as well as the reality I've come to believe in. It's slow progress on my part because I'm still learning, but I hope that my books become more and more inclusive.
Sadly this is also a long way of saying my earlier books have a basic lack of representation. When Orbit bought the rights to the Shadowdance series, and I wrote the new ones for them, I started to really explore more of Alyssa and Zusa, with (spoilers here) Zusa out-right confessing her love and the story then developing from there. Baby steps, I know, but I'm trying.
As for my other books? I can't think of any off the top of my head, and for that, consider this my apology. The next book I'm pitching (which fingers crossed Orbit likes and wants and buys), has one of its four major characters as gay, so hopefully I can start correcting this."
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Now, that was six years ago (dear lord). And the funny thing is, the series I mentioned I was working on and pitching to Orbit was the Soulkeeper series you just finished. So I suppose you can at least see some of the fruits of those efforts.
As for what to read next, I'd suggest The Vagrant Gods Trilogy, starting with Bladed Faith. It should definitely feel like a continued evolution of my writing and storytelling style, and has some of my absolute favorite characters I've ever written.
That said, if you enjoyed the sometimes dark tone and combat of the Keepers, my usual recommendation is to tell people to give Shadowdance a try, as it's easily my most popular and accessible series (think the son of a thief lord rebelling against his upbringing to become a vigilante waging war against his own father).
Well, that was perhaps more than what you were expecting, but there you go, I hope that helps :) (hide spoiler)]
The short answer is, you won't find too much in anything pre-Soulkeeper, barring a single relationship that starts to blossom near the end of the Shadowdance series.
As to why, I went into detail here: https://www.goodreads.com/questions/1...
I'll go ahead and repost my answer here as well, to a question asking me if there were more lgbt characters in my books:
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"Going to try to answer this as honestly as possible, so here goes.
I was taught really terrible things as a child about LGBT people. I no longer believe those things, and as an adult, I've been working (slowly) to make my fictional worlds better reflect the world as it is, as well as the reality I've come to believe in. It's slow progress on my part because I'm still learning, but I hope that my books become more and more inclusive.
Sadly this is also a long way of saying my earlier books have a basic lack of representation. When Orbit bought the rights to the Shadowdance series, and I wrote the new ones for them, I started to really explore more of Alyssa and Zusa, with (spoilers here) Zusa out-right confessing her love and the story then developing from there. Baby steps, I know, but I'm trying.
As for my other books? I can't think of any off the top of my head, and for that, consider this my apology. The next book I'm pitching (which fingers crossed Orbit likes and wants and buys), has one of its four major characters as gay, so hopefully I can start correcting this."
---
Now, that was six years ago (dear lord). And the funny thing is, the series I mentioned I was working on and pitching to Orbit was the Soulkeeper series you just finished. So I suppose you can at least see some of the fruits of those efforts.
As for what to read next, I'd suggest The Vagrant Gods Trilogy, starting with Bladed Faith. It should definitely feel like a continued evolution of my writing and storytelling style, and has some of my absolute favorite characters I've ever written.
That said, if you enjoyed the sometimes dark tone and combat of the Keepers, my usual recommendation is to tell people to give Shadowdance a try, as it's easily my most popular and accessible series (think the son of a thief lord rebelling against his upbringing to become a vigilante waging war against his own father).
Well, that was perhaps more than what you were expecting, but there you go, I hope that helps :) (hide spoiler)]
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John Smith
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David Dalglish:
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Do you ever feel worried about readers getting the wrong impression to certain characters? I fear if the vagrant gods got adapted and successful Everlorn will inspire a fandom of fascists or Shadow dance got adapted Threnn will be looked at as an inspiration to men like the joker or Tyler Dryden from fight club. As a teen boy when I read Thren’s ‘death’ I thought this mass murderer deserved because he was a cool man.
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