Brian asked Mark Lawrence:

Now that you are a full time writer, it seems your writing is years ahead of the publishing, such as currently writing the third Red Sister book when the first won't be published for almost a year. I know you are not a planner and may not know what's next, but would you (or your publisher) be open to two series being published concurrently? I know, I'm greedy, but I am finishing Wheel of Osheim and it is incredible.

Mark Lawrence I'm not a planner of what I'll write but I know how unpredictable life can be, especially as the father of a very disabled child, and I try to prepare for that.

For me this means having a good buffer between me and any deadline / chance of disappointing readers.

My daughter has a major operation scheduled in August and how long it will be after that before she's well enough for me to be able to write again I don't know.

I wouldn't want to be in the position where her health crises would threaten my ability to deliver a book.

If all goes well I'll start writing something new - and sure, if I get ahead in that too, and a publisher likes it enough to publish it ... then more than one book a year is a possibility.

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