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Originally Posted by NatCh
Heh, go hang out in John Ringo's space at the Baen Bar if you want to get a character based on you, Bob. He's forever doing such things, it can be a bit distracting, actually. I found while reading Princess of Wands that I spent a fair amount of my attention trying to match his characters up to authors he knew and (very loosely) based the characters on. That's the most blatant example of him doing that I've run across, but the story is such a strong one (which is to say I liked it enough) that it wasn't fatally distracting. If I hadn't realized he was prone to doing such things, I'd probably never have noticed. Well, except for the third party mention of an author named "Robert Nile" who writes an endless series of really long books -- I think I'd've caught that one regardless.  |
In Princess of Wands convention story the references are so obvious that you really cannot miss them. The most interesting is of course Mr. Ringo who sets up himself as the most fascinating character as well as murder suspect number one...
If you hang out at Baen's bar you notice a lot of the people there appearing in various Weber/Ringo/Flint (and others less known Baen authors too) quite frequently, including the famous Joe Buckley of the Baen snippets/cd's site who appears in quite a lot of books, though he gets killed rather spectacularly or messily in most...