![]() ![]() ![]() As my kids grow up and start reading their massive excitement about books is reminding me how I felt reading as a kid, and making me feel I’d like something to share with them, but also maybe that I’d like to be writing something that can impact on and influence younger people in a way you maybe can’t with a more jaded adult audience. I’d written six big books of a relatively similar, highly adult type, and I just felt the need to try something (at least a little) different. So why the switch into Young Adult (kind of)? You’re known for a very adult type of fantasy. Obviously the first one was written before the deals were signed, and the second one will be well finished before the first is published, with the third well underway, so with any luck all the hooplah around the publications won’t interfere too much with the writing. It’s meant a tight turnaround, but then the books are a lot shorter than my others have been. ![]() What different pressure has this added to the writing process? It’s the first in a trilogy, which are being released very close together, 3 in 12 months. He’s trained to be a Minister instead – somewhere between priest, healer and advisor, but when his Father and Brother are killed he’s forced to take the throne. It’s called Half A King and follows the misadventures of Yarvi, a prince born with a crippled hand and hence unable to take a man’s place in the warrior society he lives in. ![]()
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