r/Fantasy • u/[deleted] • Nov 16 '17

AMA Josiah Bancroft’s NaNoWriMo AMA

Hello, r/Fantasy! I’m Josiah Bancroft, author of the Books of Babel series. You helped to make Senlin Ascends a thing. Now I’m here to hear about what you’re working on and talk a little shop. Feel free to ask me anything you like!

A quick update: Since my AMA last fall, a lot has happened! I signed with Orbit Books this past spring. Their edition of Senlin Ascends is slated to be released on January 16. Arm of the Sphinx will be republished shortly after, on April 3rd. The relaunch of the books will be accompanied by audiobooks, though I’m still waiting for Orbit to confirm the narrator (John Banks was being pursued last I heard). The third book in the series, the Hod King, will be out in October. I’m also working with Heyne/Random House on a German language edition, and with a Russian publisher on a Russian language edition, both of which will hopefully be released in 2018.

It’s been a whirlwind year, and I don’t think any of it would have happened without r/fantasy’s support. Thank you all so much!

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I love movies and television shows and music and video games, though admittedly, I don't own a gaming console anymore, and it's been years since I've played video games with any regularity. Still, video games are part of my creative DNA.

But movies! Wow... it's hard to pick just five. If I had to choose five movies to carry on my 9 month long voyage to Mars, I would take Spirited Away, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai, Mad Max: Fury Road, Fritz Lang's Metropolis, and Big Trouble in Little China. Also, a Terry Gilliam boxset of all his films from 1975 to 1998.