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Q: What is the strangest thing a fan has ever said/done/requested to/of you?
A: The person (who knows who she is) who said she'd want Booth as a boyfriend. I still just find that kind of mind-boggling.
Q: What's your stance on fanfiction in general, and in regards to the Doctrine of Labyrinths in particular?
A: Long answer here.
Short answer: I don't mind if you write fanfiction of my work, but please don't tell me about it.
Q: I'm rereading The Bone Key now, and I've been noticing bits of worldbuilding... the Twenty, etc. How close is Booth's world to ours? (take it however you want, I'm not sure what the question is) And do you plan to deal more with his family history?
A: Booth's world is our world, except for the part where I'm making up all the details instead of trying to fit him into an existing city's existing history. (Well, and except for the ghouls and revenants and working necromancy and ... ) The last time I did Q&A, someone offered the really neat suggestion that Booth's world in the world created by the literature of the 1920s and 1930s, particularly mystery and horror, and I like that idea a lot.
Q: I'm curious about the Titan Clocks. Do you know anything else about them? Are they innately awful? Why they were built? What they do (other than tell time...they do tell time, right?)? Do you know more about Nemesis' haunting? Does the Bastion live tolerably well with Juggernaut?
A: They're made out of human bone, among other materials, and so, yes, their tendency to collect mikkary and noirance and ghosts and madness is innate.
I don't know exactly why they were built. I assume there was an Ur-Clock in Cymellune, and if I knew more about that, I might be able to tell you.
They only sort of tell time. (( spoilers for Corambis ))
I really did put everything I knew about Nemesis into the books.
The Juggernaut Clock isn't driving anyone in the Bastion mad, but I do think it's one reason the Bastion is so notably dystopian.
Q: Is it by accident that Felix and Mehitabel both have names of cats?
A: Certainly I know both those names because of cats, but that isn't why I gave them to my characters. Felix was named in spite of Felix the Cat. Mehitabel's name was originally Hephzibah, but I just couldn't work with it. Mehitabel is almost equally cumbersome, but subjectively, I find it prettier.
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A: The person (who knows who she is) who said she'd want Booth as a boyfriend. I still just find that kind of mind-boggling.
Q: What's your stance on fanfiction in general, and in regards to the Doctrine of Labyrinths in particular?
A: Long answer here.
Short answer: I don't mind if you write fanfiction of my work, but please don't tell me about it.
Q: I'm rereading The Bone Key now, and I've been noticing bits of worldbuilding... the Twenty, etc. How close is Booth's world to ours? (take it however you want, I'm not sure what the question is) And do you plan to deal more with his family history?
A: Booth's world is our world, except for the part where I'm making up all the details instead of trying to fit him into an existing city's existing history. (Well, and except for the ghouls and revenants and working necromancy and ... ) The last time I did Q&A, someone offered the really neat suggestion that Booth's world in the world created by the literature of the 1920s and 1930s, particularly mystery and horror, and I like that idea a lot.
Q: I'm curious about the Titan Clocks. Do you know anything else about them? Are they innately awful? Why they were built? What they do (other than tell time...they do tell time, right?)? Do you know more about Nemesis' haunting? Does the Bastion live tolerably well with Juggernaut?
A: They're made out of human bone, among other materials, and so, yes, their tendency to collect mikkary and noirance and ghosts and madness is innate.
I don't know exactly why they were built. I assume there was an Ur-Clock in Cymellune, and if I knew more about that, I might be able to tell you.
They only sort of tell time. (( spoilers for Corambis ))
I really did put everything I knew about Nemesis into the books.
The Juggernaut Clock isn't driving anyone in the Bastion mad, but I do think it's one reason the Bastion is so notably dystopian.
Q: Is it by accident that Felix and Mehitabel both have names of cats?
A: Certainly I know both those names because of cats, but that isn't why I gave them to my characters. Felix was named in spite of Felix the Cat. Mehitabel's name was originally Hephzibah, but I just couldn't work with it. Mehitabel is almost equally cumbersome, but subjectively, I find it prettier.
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