Are you relieved that the Jean de Flambeur trilogy – begun with The Quantum Thief, continued in The Fractal Prince, and now concluding in The Causal Angel – is ‘done and dusted’?
Writing a trilogy does take a long time. I started the first book in 2008, so it has been a number of years spent with that world and those characters. But I wouldn’t say “relieved”. Kind of satisfied is a better way of putting it.
There’s a little bit of melancholy associated with it as well, letting go of those worlds and those characters…
Full interview published in Interzone #255, November/December 2014.
