WRITING DOWN THE DRAGON: Print edition now on Amazon!

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1. Mary says

   14 August 2014 at 18:36

   And — a copy has arrived in the wilds of Connecticut!

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   • Tom Simon says

     14 August 2014 at 19:16

     Does it meet your expectations?

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     • Mary says

       15 August 2014 at 06:44

       Quality of book, yes.

       Still finishing reading it for the rest. 0:) reviews and stuff to follow.

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2. Wendy S. Delmater says

   14 August 2014 at 21:30

   Ad is up at A&A.

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   • Tom Simon says

     14 August 2014 at 22:32

     Thank you!

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3. Maypo says

   19 August 2014 at 08:43

   Ordered (delayed due to vacation travels) and eagerly awaited!

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   • Maypo says

     3 September 2014 at 07:16

     The physical book (cover design and detail, fonts) finely represents the craftsmanship of the essays. Well done Mr. Simon! I will enjoy rereading this.

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4. Beth says

   4 September 2014 at 10:01

   I just wanted you to know that your book is in my university library now, and I’ve already notified the professor who teaches our History of Middle Earth class about it. I’m excited you offer a print version so we could get it (since we can’t buy Kindle ebooks as a library). I’m looking forward to reading it when it’s done getting cataloged.

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   • Tom Simon says

     4 September 2014 at 20:22

     Splendid! (Actually, I’m stunned.)

     Which university is that?

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5. Alicia Butcher Ehrhardt says

   15 September 2014 at 12:05

   I just bought the Kindle edition – based solely so far on your comments at TPV – and the quality of your prose in the sample.

   I’ve gotten so skittish about getting books that turn out to be unreadable once sampled that I rarely do this. I loved Tolkien when TLOTR gobsmacked me in college, many years ago, and admire the man and the writing (though I rarely read fantasy now because of where the genre has moved).

   The cover is gorgeous, your aim perfect, and the middlebrow approach just the right tone (if I may call it that). I write mainstream fiction and I’m hoping to publish soon, and I think there will be many tips to pick up here because one of my main concerns is the quality of the writing and the use of the language. I think you may have wider appeal than you realize.

   All the best.
   Alicia

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6. Jeff DuMond says

   21 June 2016 at 08:58

   Hello – I am halfway through this book and I love it. Very well done and right along in the vein of the Tom Shippey books (which are my favorite Tolkien scholarship books). I have read many of them (and I guess you can say I am addicted to find just one more kernel of knowledge about Tolkien and the writing of his great works). Most of the other books I have read have been pretty dry to me and seem to be like reading a textbook at times. You have presented a substantial amount of knowledge and opinions in an entertaining way. I am planning on reading your fiction once I am finished with this book. I just wanted to thank you for writing this book – it stands right along side with the “great elf-friends of old” (i.e – the other great Tolkien scholars like Shippey, Fleiger etc).

   Scincerely,

   Jeff DuMond

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   • Tom Simon says

     21 June 2016 at 18:37

     Thank you kindly! Those may be the kindest words anybody has said about Writing Down the Dragon. I hope you enjoy my other stuff, too.

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