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Q: How did you come up with Mildmay?
A: I was browsing in the university bookstore one day, back when I was an undergraduate, and came across a fantasy novel with a pink-and-purply sort of cover, the back copy of which told me that the protagonist was an assassin. (I have forgotten all the other details, so there is no use in asking me for author or title or anything else.) And I thought, rather crossly, that assassins should not be pink-and-purply fantasy sorts of people, and then my brain ...
Published on June 30, 2010 18:27