Explaining =/= defending.

I always imagine Tom Holland as The Kid from Blood Meridian. Looks too young and harmless from outside, but really good at battering the shit out of you if provoked enough.

As a followup to the question below, what was the single most difficult scene or chapter for you to write?

Soembody recreated Washy's drawing of his adventure, lambasting the turtle.

The other is a drawn action figure of Jin who has "shoveling action" and a "kung fu grip."

Not to mention the ability to literally imagine doesn’t come as easily as one may think, and many in fact need to be taught how to do it! Especially the case now, as there’s no need to imagine- we’re inundated with easy to access visual stimuli.

Vast Waterstones in Piccadilly. Vast, many floors. Walk through ground floor to pubs in back street. Bar upstairs, cafe in basement. A jewel.

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It happened to me after I read The Looking Glass Wars series by Frank Beddor. I'm a huge Alice in Wonderland fan and I loved Beddor's retelling of it. After I was done reading the series I was a little sad it was over.

Douglas Adams? If you don't need it to be fantasy he has a really similar style and sense of humour. He frequently writes with that exact same dramatic irony back and forth between the narrator and the characters that is so good in Discworld.

I need a Catch-22 that’s not Closing Time.

Do you have any other series in the works after BOC?

Lanark by Alasdair Gray. Haven't been able to face reading it so far.

Single favorite piece of fan created stuff(art/map/plushie/fic)?

Not Jin and not TLM? There would probably be 3. Chunky, Washy, and Xiulan.

Chonkers because hes simple and enjoyable, Washy because hes a lazy shit, and Xiulan... theres just somethigng about her that I like writing.

My favourite section is perhaps Chapter 33 of Volume 1, connections, or [Break The Rocks]

Not an expert but from talking with other authors once you have up around 60+ chapters and are up there in the rankings, the growth of new readers slows down. Those who were going to read the story have already discovered it. Those who are just discovering Royal Road for the first time will add to your numbers but they are much smaller. The growth plateaus.

By then going to KU (which unfortunately is the dominant player out there) the authors gain a HUGE new audience and then this new audience hops over to Royal Road if they want to get advance reads of what comes after the KU book.

Sure it sucks to come across a "new to you" story 1-2 years later and it is stubbed but the authors need to put food on the table. Royal road without Patreon/KU is not paying the bills of full time authors.

Awesome! I'll watch for it. Would love to buy as physical series as it becomes available.

Not really beyond the hills right now. Its about average for a mid level area.

Not much, honestly unless theres a lot of backlash to a decision. But even then I normally stay the course.

I like Jin, honestly. theres something comforting about writing him.

Him, and The LORD MAGISTRATE!

We actually did have a limited run of a hardcover through podium, and we're working on a soft cover!

Hey casual, you are the creator who got me onto patreon, so thanks for all the great art and stuff! Two parter for you:

I know you always talk fondly of writing The Lord Magistrate, but who is your favorite character to write that isn't Jin?

Following that, what is your favorite section of your writing? Mine are further the books cover, but I'm interested

I gotta ask: how much do the forum comments on Royal Road and on Patreon influence you?

:-)

I love Pratchett so much. I have never found anything to replace his writing.

The London Review of Books shop near the British Museum

Stanfords, Covent Garden, travel book shop

Daunt Books, Marylebone Road

Bookmarks the Socialist Bookshop, Bloomsbury

https://booksandbao.com/indie-bookshops-in-london/

We're currently working on a soft cover of the story! no concrete release date for that yet, though.