According to an interview with SFFWorld, TNOTW has been rejected by „at least 40-50 agents“. What would you like to tell them now?

The current trend in Fantasy seems to favor „grim & gritty“ or mass compatible novels like the „Twilight“ series. Your novel is quite the opposite of both - was it a challenge to write against those literary currents or did you plan that from the beginning?

Recently, quite a few eagerly awaited sequels have been postponed. Would you say that publishers should actively communicate that really good books cannot be „produced“ on an annual basis by the same author? And was officially announcing TWMF‘s postponement a relief for you?

Book one has a stylistic tendency toward All Age. Will you develop your melodic sentence structure into a more adult style as the story moves on to Kvothe‘s adult life?

Which episodes in book one were most fun to write, which were the toughest ones in that respect?

Talking with the people from BookSpotCentral you said about the „The Last Unicorn“: "In fact, that novel is probably the reason unicorn stories have become a little cliché. When someone writes something as dazzlingly brilliant as that novel, people want to imitate it. The result is a lot of less-than-brilliant knock-offs. Elves, Dwarves, Goblin army, cursed ring, evil sorcerer. Tolkien did it. It rocked. Let’s move on. Let’s do something new." How hard is it for you to avoid such clichés? Did you accidentally slip into cliché sometimes?

To Pat‘s Fantasy Hotlist you said that the „tendency to over-explain and over describe is one of the most common failings in fantasy. It's an unfortunate piece of Tolkien's legacy. Don't get me wrong, Tolkien was a great worldbuilder, but he got a little caught up describing his world at times, at the expense of the overall story.“ Do you have the feeling that „show, don‘t tell“ is becoming sort of boundless? And where would you slot in your novel?

Could it be that you chose to portrait Kvothe as an unreliable narrator because of that or rather because you like to fib a little sometimes?

Which minor character is your favorite? And is the eternal student Manet alluding to your own extended and various studies?

Obviously, you have many interests: To BookSpotCentral you said that you have taken a class on Medieval drama and that it has helped shape the idea of a theater troupe in TNOTW. How much have those dramas influenced your writing, overall? Which of their themes do you find in the novel?

Imagine you were living in the Middle Ages or Renaissance. Could you think of a playwright „Sir Patrick“? Or would you rather live here and now?

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