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Will you have personalized versions of Master Artificer available on your site? If yes, when can they be expected to pop up?

Justin Call I will! My stock will most likely come in around the same time the publishers make the book available on Amazon, etc., so I would circle back to my website around the middle of May 2021. It's also very likely that I will arrange for stock to be sold by my local bookstore, but I need to speak with those folks first. Once I have further info, I'll post on Facebook, Twitter, Goodreads, and my website.

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I got a handwritten note with my copy of Master of Sorrows (signed yay!) and It says to shine a UV light at it (which I did) but nothing showed up ): The only reason I got the note is that the guy in Waterstones was raving about the book and I said I'd give it a go. What was meant to show up on the paper?

Justin Call Sorry to hear that, friend! The bottom of the letter (or the back?) should have said this:

Bonus Chapter 24.5 – “Devil’s Bargain”

Then it gave a BIT.LY link that took you here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/c41gutj58p0...

If I get a chance to meet you in person, I’ll be sure to add the message in invisible ink. Alternatively, you can private message me with your address and I’ll send you a replacement letter.

Cheers – and I hope you enjoy the book!
Justin

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What are you currently working on?

Justin Call Master of the Fallen: Book 3 of The Silent Gods series.

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I just finished the audiobook, and am happy to say, it's one of my favorite fantasy books ever. Peter Kenny did such a great job as narrator. What was it like working with him?

Justin Call TL;DR - I adore Peter Kenny.

You couldn't ask for a better narrator than Peter. He contacted me shortly after getting the gig (I had picked him out of a stable of other very talented narrators based on his competence and talent in previous novels that had a similar tone, plus he has amazing breadth and variety in his voices). We talked about pronunciation for the characters and places in the book, which he dutifully wrote down in the notebook he keeps for each of the projects he works on. I also recorded me speaking the names in various accents so as to give him an idea of what I expected they would sound like in American, English, Scottish, etc ... and Peter took it from there! He's an amazingly talented voice artist and narrator, but he's also an immensely kind person with a tremendous work ethic. He was also able to record the entire book in just two weeks (which is incredible to me).

This past summer (August 2019), I had the good fortune of getting to see Peter on my way through London as I made my way to WorldCon Dublin. We had lunch together and chatted about many, many things (some book related, some not), and I was amazed by how unfailingly gracious, polite, and generous he was. It would be difficult to find another person that is quite so noble, earnest, or sincere, let alone one who is also mega-talented (as he is). In fact, I had such a good time meeting Peter than I introduced him to my family (who had also been traveling with me) and we scheduled time for another short lunch on my way back to the US. Both meals were excellent (made more so by the company), and it helped me develop a close relationship with Peter that I look forward to nurturing over the course of this longer series (and many others).

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I'm so excited to hear that there will be a novella that dives into the background of the witwomen! That is the exact side story I really wanted to know more about after reading Book 1. I can't wait to get my hands on that novella! I don't see it currently listed on your website or Goodreads, though. Is there a projected date for its release?

Justin Call Ahoy, Mara! I've been working on the novella since finishing the first draft of Book 2 (Master Artificer) and I'll continue to work on it until I get my edits back from my publisher. I've got a handful of chapters written at the moment and am expecting something between 90-150 pages.

As for other questions regarding the novella, I expect it will solely be published in ebook form and will (most likely) be distributed by my UK publisher, Gollancz, sometime this summer. It's unclear whether they will also distribute in the US or whether I'll self-pub that myself (due to marketing concerns, my US publisher has chosen to pass on buying rights to the novella). The short story will cover some of the interactions of the witwomen prior to and including the climax of Book 1. The main character of that narrative will be Faith (Myjun's best friend and Therin's crush). If things go well with this ebook, I'm hoping to continue Faith's narrative between books 2 and 3 with a second novella.

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If you could travel to any fictional book world, where would you go and what would you do there?

Justin Call I'd travel to Scadrial and nip some Lerasium so I could become Mistborn. :D

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When can I expect the release of " The silent gods 2"?"

Justin Call An excellent question! Master Artificer (The Silent Gods, Book 2) will be released early in the Spring of 2021. There are two reasons for this. First, the US book launch for Master of Sorrows (book 1) was in February 2021, so it would have been odd to release book 2 at the same time in the UK. Second, Master Artificer is considerably longer than Master of Sorrows, so it has taken longer to write (900 pages versus 600 pages). Pushing back the UK release date gave me more time to write the book and allowed the US publisher to catch up with the UK publishing schedule.

Given that, here are our projected dates for the series:

February 2019 - UK release for Book 1
February 2020 - US release for Book 1
May 2021 - US/UK release for Book 2
TBD 2022 - US/UK release for Book 3
TBD 2023 - US/UK release for Book 4

That's the best I can estimate given what I have planned for the books and what I know about the publishing process.

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is The Silent Gods Adult epic fantasy?

Justin Call It is, but the series also has a high crossover between YA and Adult due to the protagonist being young (17 years old at the start of Book 1) and his journey being one of identity and self-discovery.

Annev will be nearly 20 by the end of the Silent Gods tetralogy, though, and its themes become more mature as the series progresses. So while mature YA readers will enjoy it (and parents will appreciate that there is very little profanity/sex), the series as a whole is still primarily intended for an adult audience.

I don't like to exclude my younger readers, though, so I've attempted to write something that my 14-year-old self would enjoy as much as my 36-year-old self.

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