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Stuff about THE HUNDRED THOUSAND KINGDOMS, my first forthcoming novel

Character Study: Yeine

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Writers cannot live by fiction alone, and I need some mental breaks from working on Book 3, so it occurred to me that folks might be interested in learning more about the thought processes involved in creating and writing the characters from the Inheritance Trilogy. This will be a series; you’ll be able to find all of them under the category header “character study”. And naturally I figured I’d start with our girl Yeine. Cutting for spoilers!

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FAQ?

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I made a joke on Twitter yesterday about “the FAQ I’ll never post”… and then I thought about it, and tried to decide whether I needed an FAQ. I think I might; I do seem to be getting a few basic questions over and over in interviews. A few examples: Why is the book called The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms when we see only a few of them? Which mythologies were your inspiration in creating the cosmology of the book? Is this your first novel? I haven’t yet gotten a lot of questions about the plot or characters of 100K, though,

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Hundred Thousand Kingdoms Open Chat Thread

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OK, since the book has now been out for more than a week, I think it might be fun for me to create a space here where readers can chat with each other about the book’s characters or content. Spoilers will abound necessarily, and I’ll be keeping an eye on the thread to make sure things stay civil, but other than that I will be hands-off here. Want to speculate about future books of the trilogy? Rant about characters who should’ve gotten more story time, or characters you just want to hate? Rave about characters who surprised you in a

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Interview at Sci-Fi Fan Letter

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Still on retreat, and making good progress — wrote 2000 words yesterday and did 2 chapters of copyedit. Also, having fun. But in the meantime, the promotion machine churns on; I did this interview with Sci-Fi Fan Letter awhile back, and they’ve posted it today. Check it out! An excerpt: When and where do you write? I make myself write every day, at least a thousand words a day, preferably two thousand. Generally I work best in midmorning to afternoon (which is one of the reasons why I quit my job), and I work equally well in my home office

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Sexing Up Gods Pt. 2: SMITE as an STD

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OK! Now that The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms has been out for a week, I can finally start to make some posts that include spoilers. These will be tagged “Spoilerrific” from here forth, and will be cut so that innocent eyes will not be sullied by the GIANT HONKING PLOT DETAILS FROM DEEP IN THE BOOK unless the really want to be sullied by them. So I repeat, if you have not finished The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, don’t click on the “continue reading” below! On the heels of my previous post, I had another thought on the topic of “sexing up”

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IT’S OUT

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Two, two, two interviews in one (post)

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The blog tour goes to two places today, folks — first down to Nashville, where I’m in the author spotlight with the Nashville Examiner, where I got a little philosophical during the interview: So does Jemisin hope that her novel offers a specific message to the reader? “No. Honestly, I think that artists have a responsibility to write whatever is in their soul or head and then stop. Then, it’s up to the reader to draw whatever they want out of it. As far as I am concerned reading is the ultimate interactive experience. The writer gives the words, but

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It’s February 22nd. Do you know what that means?

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That’s right. It’s launch week! In three days The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms will be officially published. It seems weird to say that, given all the reviews and interviews and such, and the fact that lots of people have gotten their preorders, etc., delivered early. But I can tell you honestly that I’ve been stopping into bookstores all over New York City, hoping for the atavistic thrill of finally seeing a book, with my name on it, on a bookstore shelf but I haven’t found it anywhere. Because officially, it’s not out, and some bookstores actually, I don’t know, follow instructions

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A Name Pronunciation Guide for 100K

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I’ve gotten a few questions lately from readers about how to pronounce the names in The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms. The truth is, I don’t care how you pronounce them; it’s fiction, it’s not like any real people will be offended. But I know some people like to be precise, so I’ll share how I’ve been pronouncing them: Yeine: YAY-neh (Yes, two syllables. This seems to be the biggest point of confusion.) Viraine: vih-RAYN Nahadoth: NA-ha-doth Sieh: see-ay (no particular emphasis on either syllable) Kurue: KOO-roo-ay, rolled “r” Zhakkarn: jah-KARN (I prefer using the Mandarin pronunciation of the “zh”, though I

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Blog Tour: Dribbledom?

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A loooooong interview with me (it took 4 days!) over at A Dribble of Ink. Lots and lots of stuff in that one, like why I use initials and why I hated unicorns as a little girl. Also links to a review of 100K; check it out! ETA: Almost forgot — there are bigass spoilers in this interview, not just for 100K but the whole Inheritance Trilogy. You have been warned!

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