Sheri S. Tepper

To Ms Tepper and/or publicist,
Has there been any suggestion of making a movie from the novel “Grass”? This is a visually powerful story combined with many issues that are socially relevant to our world. The concept of a world where all species are linked by metamorphosis is a brilliant notion. There is much about this story that I imagine could appeal to the likes of Steven Spielberg, James Cameron or George Lucas? Please consider my suggestion. Could you rewrite the story as a screenplay? Thank you for your inspirational stories. Regards, Jeffrey A W.

Ms. Tepper writes back…

Jeffry W. needs to know that authors have absolutely nothing to do with deciding to make a film from a book they have written—except to accept or refuse an offer made by a producer or studio.  Writing a screen play of a book won’t help: most producers want screen plays written by someone they have confidence in, that is, someone who knows what “screen” requires.  If a reader thinks a book should be made into a movie, the person to tell about it is the director, producer, or studio.  It carries a lot more weight than anything a writer might say—all  of us, I’m sure, think our books should be made into movies.

 

I have always thought that the director who made movies of the Tolkien trilogy would find Grass an interesting book to look at, but, as the writer, I’m not the person to say so. 

I’m writing to you because I was wondering if there was a fuller description of the various classes of Gamesmen in the True Game world. While some of them, like Pursuivants, are pretty thoroughly described, and the big 11, who each have one power, as fairly clear, I was hoping to get a better picture of the limitations and nature of some who are barely mentioned in any of the three trilogies (Prophets, Churchmen, Phantasms, and Archangels, for example).

Do you have, somewhere, a chart or description of how each class can use its powers? Is there a published form? Thank you for your time and attention, I appreciate it very much.

-Russell

and Ms. Tepper responds…

  I think at that time I considered that the powers were rather like seasoning in cooking.  There was taste, and then there was “Did you salt this at all?” and “Whoo, you put in too much garlic.”  In other words, very little all the way up to too much.  This would allow an almost unlimited variation along the spectrum of each power and each combination.  Each one of the powers would affect the others in different ways, also.  I had some interesting correspondence back then with some young people into gaming who had made up their own games for this world.

 

Sheri

Sheri wanted us to know..

When older books are picked up for ebook reissue, they don’t have an original e-file on them—too long ago. So, they outsource the making of the efile to places like India, where the results are as you see, messy. The people speak English, but the niceties may escape them. Or the vocabulary.

Anyhow, that’s why, and he says it’s driving most of his clients crazy!

We recently updated Ms. Tepper on the letters coming into the site, and let her know about the Poll we were running. She emailed this back to us.

The planned sequel (Fish Tales) includes all three books. Abasio (from the Plague of Angels) and Xulai (from The Water’s Rising) are helped in their mission by the arrival of a starship from Lom—where the True Game took place. The ship that took humans to Lom was from Earth, the same ship returns to Earth from Lom bringing Mavin Manyshaped—1000 years after she was petrified on Lom, along with Peter and Jinian, who are still with us because they made the trip in the form of “Blues.”

They are sent as emissaries. The Planet Lom has a message for Planet Earth.

I think. At least, that’s how it looks now.
Sheri

We have been given a wonderful gift!!!

Thanks to a kind person at “Authors Contact” at Harper Collins, a few of the emails sent to this website have been forwarded on to Sheri’s publicist and she tells us she welcomes any more that come our way.