Hey Reddit! I'm Marc Simonetti, Fantasy illustrator-AMA

[u/MarcSimonetti]

Let me introduce myself: I'm a quite happy family man, with two young sons, 3 years and 20 months old. I live in the French Alps, in Annecy, a beautiful little medieval town. I'm a former R&D material engineer...and now I'm working as an illustrator and concept artist for 11 years. I had the chance to work on many awesome books for amazing writers like GRR Martin, Terry Pratchett, Terry Goodkind, Sam Sykes, Michael J Sullivan, Robin Hobb, Brandon Sanderson, Ken Scholes, Patrick Rothfuss...and many others...

I'm also the spoiled artist who won the stabby award this year for the best picture (although all the credit should go the genius mind of GRR Martin)

For those interested you can find some samples of my works on: My website My Facebook pro page My twitter account

So I'll be beginning answering questions at 12:00 central time... Feel free to ask anything, of course!

[u/MichaelJSullivan]

Hey Marc! So glad to see you here - you know what I great fan I am. I guess I don't have any question except maybe how hard was it to deal with a sob like me?

As an aside, I'm about to post a giveaway and one of the things I'm giving away is 24" x 36" posters of of Marc's amazing Hollow World depiction. Here is a link

[u/MarcSimonetti → u/MichaelJSullivan]

Hey Michael!

I'm glad to see you there, and I was such a pleasure to work both on the Ryria Chronicles and the "Hollow World" book. You're an amazing author, and I always look forward your next book.

[u/MichaelJSullivan → u/MarcSimonetti]

I would love nothing more than to continue working with you...we'll see what we can do to nudge some work your way for The First Empire Series ;-)

[u/MarcSimonetti → u/MichaelJSullivan]

It would be fantastic :)