Video: Steven Erikson (9/22/08)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVnN4vmSFHI
Steven Erikson visited the University Bookstore on September 22nd to promote his new US release, Toll the Hounds—and here is some of that visit!
Steven spent most of the event reading from Toll the Hounds and two poems from Dust of Dreams. He then answered a number of questions from the crowd on a menagerie of different topics—from how he writes to where Malazan came from to why a cliffhanger ending is necessary for next year’s Dust of Dreams.
There are eight parts to the video:

• Part 1: Steven talking about his true poetic side and reading a poem from the Malazan series.
• Part 2: Steven reading a chapter excerpt from Toll the Hounds
• Part 3: Steven reading a chapter excerpt from Toll the Hounds
• Part 4: Steven reading the Chapter III poem from Dust of Dreams.
• Part 5: Steven talking about the impending cliffhanger at the end of the forthcoming novel, Dust of Dreams.
• Part 6: Steven talks about the origins of Malazan.
• Part 7: Steven speaks to how he stays on a yearly schedule—and a secret!
• Part 8: Steven talks about how he keeps track of such a large world—or doesn’t.

Steve is a wonderful speaker. If you ever get a chance to attend an event of his, do so. And if you haven’t already, pick up Gardens of the Moon, Book One of The Malazan Book of the Fallen!