Did you expect Six of Crows to be as popular as it is?

Nope. The entire time I was writing SoC I kept saying, “Why am I doing this? No one’s going to want to read this.” And I would kind of laugh a brittle, semi-hysterical laugh, and my friends would look at me with concern in their eyes, and then I’d go back to work. It’s sort of all you can do. You tell the story you want to tell. You tell it the best you can. You hope for the best.