Fantasy world beckons

JOHN STEPHENS, formerly a writer, director and producer on smash-hit TV shows The OC and Gilmore Girls says, “It really is a Golden Age of television right now.

Fantasy world beckons

But it’s only that way in specific cases. If you’re David Chase, say, who created The Sopranos, or Matt Weiner who made Mad Men, or Damon Lindelof, who made Lost, it’s a really exciting time.”

The 35-year-old Stephens spent 10 long years building a career in TV. So why has he jumped ship to write kids’ fantasy novels at a time when Salman Rushdie, for example, is going in the other direction, and abandoning fiction to write for TV?

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