Glenn Curry

Glenn Curry asked Brian Staveley:

One of the reason I love your books is your very broad vocabulary. Every novel has had a word or two where I am amazed to see the word in writing and the use of it was absolutely perfect. I've seen you ask on twitter "Does this word fit, etc..." So I'm asking two things I guess; is your vocabulary that robust from your educational background, dictionary look up, and twitter inquiries? second question next...

Brian Staveley I think vocabulary comes from extensive reading. At least, that definitely seemed to be the case when I was teaching high school. Students who read a lot had larger vocabularies, and that was sort of the end of the story. We always used to do vocab exercises and quizzes, and those probably helped a little around the margins, but I think there's no excuse for just tons and tons of varied reading.

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Andrei

Andrei asked Brian Staveley:

Where did the idea for this series come from? Did it fall fully fledged from the heavens or was it something that came together over time?

Slick

Slick asked Brian Staveley:

Hey Mr.B im here to abuse the Q&A again, miss me? ;) Just read Dead Ox Falls, awesome :D What is Heins well? Will he be reappearing?

Balaji Kumar

Balaji Kumar asked Brian Staveley:

I see that you are working on the third installment in the series (Hope it is going with a full momentum), so why wasn't The Providence of Fire published the week it was finished? Or anytime before the scheduled January,2015? I am asking this because, the suspense is digging at me a little bit. Oh, and the fantasy genre needs thrillers like your work, kudos to you!!

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