A Three-Ring Debut: A Q&A with BookPage

I thoroughly enjoyed this Q&A with BookPage about the book. Gets me ready for when I start my tour (next week! eeek!).

Literary/fantasy hybrids, from Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell to The Magicians, are hotter than ever. To what extent were you aware of genre as you were writing?

I wasn't even convinced it was a novel for a while so genre wasn't something I thought about too much. I was mildly concerned that it was too literary to be fantasy and too fantasy to be literary—I hadn't even considered hybrid territory an option—so I wrote the story the way it wanted to be told and figured I could worry about categorizing it when I was done.

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