Kevin King asked Mark Lawrence:

I'm not sure if you've been asked this before, but do you get a certain amount of joy writing the narrative for someone as sadistic and twisted as Jorg?

Mark Lawrence I wouldn't write any book unless it gave me a certain amount of joy.

How did you decide on your titles and covers for you books? The popular saying goes that you shouldn't judge a book by it's cover but that is exactly what I do when looking for a book. That's how I picked up Prince of Thorns. The titles for the Broken Empire obviously relate to the story, but did you think of the title before or after you wrote the first draft? Were you originally going to call it something else?

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