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October 08, 2000 at 12:47:44

Murphy, author of the delightful Hobbit-homage 'There and Back Again', is participating in an ongoing interview conducted by Martha Soukup at Inkwell.

Murphy writes in her latest email newsletter:

So far we've been talking about the basic conceit behind the three books I've been working on:

There and Back Again by Max Merriwell
Wild Angel by Mary Maxwell by Max Merriwell
and Adventures in Time and Space with Max Merriwell

There'll be plenty of chance to talk about writing under pseudonyms, about being a woman writing as a man writing as a woman, about feminist aspects of Wild Angel, and about anything else anyone wants to raise. Anyway, if you feel like stopping by, you can, even if you don't belong to the Well.

Here's how:

Go to http://engaged.well.com/engaged/engaged.cgi?c=inkwell.vue&t=90&q=0-

...If you get to the conference this way, you can't post directly, but you can post by sending an email to inkwell-hosts@well.com and telling them you want it posted to Topic 90.

The Well is an interesting community, so I'm confident the conversation will be worth checking out.

Pat Murphy

There and Back Again is a light space opera which follows the adventures of Bailey Beldon (Bilbo Baggins), a Norbit (Hobbit) who is drawn into a long journey by thirteen members of the Farr family (Thorin and Company). The author occasionally drops into whimsical asides to explain background information much as Tolkien himself did in The Hobbit. There and Back again is now available as a paperback.