If writing were boxing, what would your favorite authors nicknames be? Off the top of my head
- Joe "Say Fitch and Die" Abercrombie
- Steven "Doorstop" Erikson
- Orson "Speak Loudly and Carry a Little Doctor" Scott Card
- Neil "Bling Bling" Gaiman
- Cory "Creative Commoner" Doctorow
- George "The (Eventual) Finisher" R.R. Martin
- Bill "Don't Call Me Fairytale" Willingham
- Jim "The Booklist" Butcher
- J.K. "Bible-beater" Rowling
- Matt "Tie-In Literature" Stover
- John "The Rabid Zombie" Scalzi
- China "The Good Weird" Mieville
- Norman "Demon Cowboy" Partridge
- Ted "I Win" Chiang
- Paolo "Mr. B" Bacigalupi
- Patrick "Baby Bunyan" Rothfuss
- Terry "Tolkein 2.0" Brooks
- Terry "Get Me Off This List" Goodkind
- Scott "The Hangman" Lynch
- Blake "Blackthorn Ale" Charlton
- Peter "Sleeper Agent" Watts
- Mary "Puppetmaster" Robinette Kowal
- William "Al Gore" Gibson
- Alastair "The Millionaire" Reynolds
- L. Ron "Faithmaker" Hubbard
- Jay "Word Machine" Lake
Oh dude, you nailed Goodkind so well. :D I bet he would react that way.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, Bible-beater is my favorite. It has a certain ring to it.
While Blackthron Ale seems so royal.
Awesome post.
ReplyDeleteJanny "Wordy" Wurts
Aldous "Indefatigable" Huxley
Those are my lame attempts.