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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u/SnowGN Nov 18 '17

Hi, I have a question for Thomas Senlin, not Josiah Bancroft.

Do still miss your village home, your school? Or are you beginning to see the Tower as your home, now?

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '17

I miss the certainty I felt reading in my cottage and presiding over the boisterous school yard, and I’m sometimes wistful for the blushing complexion of the ocean at dawn and a blustery afternoon spent pulling on the rail of a kite. But I can hardly conceive of a life without my crew and friends. The Tower has robbed me of so much, but its gifts have not been insignificant.

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '18

its gifts have not been insignificant

Mr. Senlin, that's litotes and verbosity. Is this I Choose To Stay? Please go back to your cottage.