Terry Pratchett's Right Up My Alley ...

Be What You Are; It Is Better That Way. --dolph

I Hope To Read A Harry Potter Novel Soon, To See What It's All About. I Admit To Being Annoyed That Many Good Light Fantasy Writers Have Had Trouble Getting Published, In England And Elsewhere, When It Is Obvious The Readers Were Waiting For Us All Along.

I Think It's A Shame That Something As Creative And Vital To The Nature Of The Human Species As Story-telling Is Largely Controlled By The Soulless Cretins Known As Publishers.

As For Collaboration - I Have Done A Lot, 26 Books, And Found Publishers Increasingly Resistive To Them. It's Not That The Books Are Bad; Editors Won't Even Read Them.

No Novel Is A Clone Of Any Preceding One, Though With A Background Cast Of Characters And Things That Has Grown To Thousands, There Are Many Familiar Aspects.