Mitchell Leung
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Jonathan Stroud:
Have you considered adding any special connection ghosts to any of the main characters of the Lockwood & Co series? Actually answer either that or this: Will you ever crossover at any point the Bartimaeus novels with Lockwood & Co? Like maybe a villain summons a djinni or something & Lockwood & Co go through the books to find another djinni (voila!- Bartimaeus) to fight back.
Jonathan Stroud
Ooh, good questions. Well, I'll answer the crossover one. I think not: it's tempting to have some kind of crossover between the two universes, but if I did that it would at once undercut all the rules that govern both series. The funny thing about writing fantasy is that it has to have cast-iron rules: if you deviate from them, then anything can happen, and the reader straightaway loses interest. I did once have George reading a comic about a genie, but that's as close as it went (and I may have even cut that!).
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Stacy Sagoo
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Jonathan Stroud:
Did you have an idea of how the overarching story of Lockwood and Co. would pan out when you started writing the series or do you write each book as the story comes to you in regard to the characters development and relationships? I am 30 years old and I can't remember the last time I enjoyed a book series so much!
Rachel Jackson
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Jonathan Stroud:
Hello Mr Stroud! I absolutely love your books :D You've created very interesting settings in your books, having a modern yet antique feel to it. In Bartimaeus there is very interesting relationship between the magicians, the commoners and the spirits. Is such kind of a society and government present all over the world or just England in that universe during that time? Please do write more Bartimaeus stories :)
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Mar 25, 2016 10:59AM · flag