Sam Sykes

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Novelist · United States Of America · Male

Sam Watkins is an American epic fantasy writer who publishes fiction as Sam Sykes. His debut trilogy of novels, the Aeons' Gate series, was appreciated by critics for its characterization and dialogue, and for its deconstruction of standard fantasy tropes, but criticized for its meandering, derivative plot. He is the son of Diana Gabaldon, author of the Outlander serie

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“Realtalk: Writing is a career. It has a community. You have colleagues. To suggest that you don't need or shouldn't want any of these things is ridiculous. Colleagues help each other out.”

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“Tonight I sat down to write and found nothing happening. This has happened to me ten thousand times before and no time has it ever been helped by berating myself, yet that's immediately what I did. It's weird how this job induces selective amnesia.”

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“It's weird when someone leaves a review that's 90% composed of how much they hated a character and you know that's incorrect. If they really hated them, they wouldn't have spent that much time talking about them.”

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“There is absolutely zero way to predict how your creative career will go. You could be read by a producer and get a movie tomorrow. You could hit it big 10 years from now. No one knows. The anxiety, of course, comes from the fact that it's hard to plan a future around something no one knows anything…”

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Sam Sykes

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