Sofia asked Erika Johansen:

Hi Erika, just wanted to say I first picked up the Tearling on 2014 and have been hooked ever since. I saw your comment about BTK not being as popular as the trilogy and I cannot for the life of me understand why! BTK is even better than the original trilogy in my opinion; it was by far the very best book I read in 2022. When you wrote the original books, did you already have BTK's backstory in mind? Thank you!

Erika Johansen Sofia: No, I didn't. I actually thought of telling Mace's story while writing Fate, but gradually realized it didn't belong there and would have to be its own book. Thanks so much for the kind words about BTK; maybe a prequel is just a hard sell these days.

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