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David
David asked Mark Lawrence:

There's a popular saying that you must write and throw away a million words before you're able to write at a professional level of quality. How true was this for you?

Mark Lawrence Probably true. I wrote lots of scenarios for Dungeons & Dragons when I was in school. In my 20s/30s I wrote a LOT of replies for the play-by-mail game I ran (Saturnalia) - and that was an interactive fantasy story. In my 30s/40s I wrote a lot of short stories and two books before I wrote Prince of Thorns.

I guess there's 1,000,000+ words in that lot.
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Matt Weeks
Matt Weeks asked Mark Lawrence:

Have you ever thought of turning one of your book series into an animated Netflix series à la Star Wars Clone Wars? The visuals and art are so impressive, and I feel it would lend so well to Epic Fantasy stories that it seems like a no brainer. Besides I have run out of things to watch on Netflix and I am grasping at straws here!!!

Dillfish17
Dillfish17 asked Mark Lawrence:

Will there ever be a book that explains more of the history and of the creatures and magic in the world where the Broken Empire and the Red Queens War is set?

John Hatteberg
John Hatteberg asked Mark Lawrence:

Mark! You've said Red Sister is not set in the same world as your other two trilogies. Is Red Sister set in the same universe? Is it in the far future from your other two trilogies, but on a different planet?

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