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I am never not thinking about stories. 'The Bone Season' is 90% of my brain - 10% is interacting with the rest of the world.

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I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it.

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I'm not going to give it the big 'I am' now that I'm a New York Times bestseller.

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I fell even more deeply in love with Tolkien's legendarium after studying Old English literature at uni, as I got a sense of the historical events and cultures that Tolkien used to create his world. My favourite of his imaginary locations is Lothlorien.

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I always felt that sci-fi and fantasy were my thing. Bit of a geek, I'm afraid. But I like creating worlds, and I felt it was a genre that gave me more freedom. It just seemed like I belonged there.

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I wanted to write a sci-fi story that would appeal to young women. Loads of girls like sci-fi, but it's more culturally associated with guys.

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Whenever anyone calls me 'The new J..K. Rowling,' I think, 'What's wrong with the old one?'

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I've never had a supernatural experience. I've been tempted to maybe have a tarot-card reading, but I don't know if I'd necessarily want to know.

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I often look at places and kind of mentally convert them to fantasy versions of themselves.

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I was born in 1991, and 'Harry Potter' came out in '97, so, you know, I was really obsessed. I used to read them in one night.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Writer

Born: November 8th, 1991

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