Mitchell Leung
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Jonathan Stroud:
Have you considered adding any special connection ghosts to any of the main characters of the Lockwood & Co series? Actually answer either that or this: Will you ever crossover at any point the Bartimaeus novels with Lockwood & Co? Like maybe a villain summons a djinni or something & Lockwood & Co go through the books to find another djinni (voila!- Bartimaeus) to fight back.
Jonathan Stroud
Ooh, good questions. Well, I'll answer the crossover one. I think not: it's tempting to have some kind of crossover between the two universes, but if I did that it would at once undercut all the rules that govern both series. The funny thing about writing fantasy is that it has to have cast-iron rules: if you deviate from them, then anything can happen, and the reader straightaway loses interest. I did once have George reading a comic about a genie, but that's as close as it went (and I may have even cut that!).
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A Goodreads user
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Jonathan Stroud:
+also appear in this world? If so, how will anyone negate the source, assuming the source is the actual ship underwater? (Also I have already read the Hollow boy and it was amazing. I bit my nails to nubs by the end of it and that cliffhanger oh my god. Such a beautiful book. Thank you so much for being so awesome :)
Jenny Schwarz
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Jonathan Stroud:
Afraid I probably won't get to Hollow Boy today as want to refresh my memory of SS & WS first (which I'm doing now!) but I have one question, if I may. You might well have heard of an online role playing game called World of Warcraft, which I play. The upcoming new part to it features Demon Hunters and their lore reminds me of djinn... Might I ask your permission to call mine Bartimaeus? Please? x
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