![]() It featured a black-haired young man staring sadly at the ground. ![]() Many, many, many years ago I was walking past Filene’s Basement in Boston’s Downtown Crossing, and I saw a Calvin Klein underwear ad in a window. (Actually, if I was being honest, his face came first. The idea of a fallen prince living paycheck-to-paycheck was the kernel of an idea. Where did they enter the process in imagining and writing the novel? PW: Rune Saint John and Brand are a strong pair of central characters. Peter Cline, for instance, is a master of that - you should read his post-apocalypse superhero & zombie novels. My favorite type of SFF is one that crosses multiple subgenres. Even better? I wanted to stick it in the modern era alongside smart phones and airplanes. In particular, I wanted to take one of these lost lands and turn it into a blank canvas that I could populate with many different pantheons and monster stories. I actually lived in mortal fear for years that some big-name writer would come up with a sweeping Atlantis storyline before I got good enough to become published, so I had back-up research on other long-lost continents: Lemuria, Avalon, Ys…. KD: I have a fascination with lost continents. ![]() The author very kindly answered my questions about the world and characters of The Last Sun. Edwards’ debut novel, The Last Sun, is now out from Pyr Books. ![]()
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