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Addison on The Grief of Stones
Jun. 15th, 2022 04:51 pmKatherine Addison (i.e. Sarah Monette) did a live chat about The Grief of Stones (the newest Goblin Emperor book) this evening that was pretty spoiler-free.
Interesting bits:
There will be a third Thara Celehar mystery, she's currently writing it, it will be called The Tomb of Dragons and will probably be available sometime around June of 2024. After that, she will do something completely different as a palate cleanser, and after that she has no idea but she's not ruling out more stuff in the Goblin Emperor universe.
KA says there will never be a direct sequel to TGE itself; that story is self-contained and done. However, she's not ruling out the possibility of characters from TGE showing up in other books set in the TGE universe.
KA has maps of some PARTS of Amalo, and they're on really big paper, and she hasn't figured out a good way to share them. She spent a while drawing maps because she couldn't get any writing done, but they don't connect up, and some of them are wrong because in writing the books she changed things. She has not put together a glossary of the Thara books, but she does have a spreadsheet of characters so she can find them again and know who we've seen before.
The dead can't lie, but they can misinterpret what they saw ... and the Witness can lie about it.
The Celehar books have no chapters because Raymond Chandler doesn't have them, and she was experimenting. Wouldn't do it again, but felt that once she started, she had to continue in this trilogy with that style.
Content note for the book: The Grief of Stones' main case is about child sexual abuse and grooming. None of it is explicitly described, but the book deals with heavy subjects.
Interesting bits:
There will be a third Thara Celehar mystery, she's currently writing it, it will be called The Tomb of Dragons and will probably be available sometime around June of 2024. After that, she will do something completely different as a palate cleanser, and after that she has no idea but she's not ruling out more stuff in the Goblin Emperor universe.
KA says there will never be a direct sequel to TGE itself; that story is self-contained and done. However, she's not ruling out the possibility of characters from TGE showing up in other books set in the TGE universe.
KA has maps of some PARTS of Amalo, and they're on really big paper, and she hasn't figured out a good way to share them. She spent a while drawing maps because she couldn't get any writing done, but they don't connect up, and some of them are wrong because in writing the books she changed things. She has not put together a glossary of the Thara books, but she does have a spreadsheet of characters so she can find them again and know who we've seen before.
The dead can't lie, but they can misinterpret what they saw ... and the Witness can lie about it.
The Celehar books have no chapters because Raymond Chandler doesn't have them, and she was experimenting. Wouldn't do it again, but felt that once she started, she had to continue in this trilogy with that style.
Content note for the book: The Grief of Stones' main case is about child sexual abuse and grooming. None of it is explicitly described, but the book deals with heavy subjects.
