Patrick Rothfuss Gives Us A Fabulous Debut,

I Mean, I Wasn't Stupid. I Knew We'd Make Money And Sell A Lot Of Dune Books.

We Wanted To Write The First Prequels As A Story That Anyone Could Pick Up.

It Was Like There Was A Pile Of Kindling That Was In The Back Of My Imagination Just Waiting There. Once I Lit It, It Just Flared Up And I Kept Getting Ideas And Ideas.

I Wanted The Feel In These Books To Be Like An Epic Fantasy, With Kings, Queens, Dukes And Court Politics, But Of Course Like What I Was Explaining Before, About Making The Science Make Sense, You Have To Make The Politics Make Sense, Too.

Telling Your Story Out Loud Is The Way Human Beings Communicate. We Don't Normally Think Up Words, Translate How To Spell Them And Then Move Our Fingers Up And Down Over This Randomly Arranged Set Of Keys To Make The Same Letters Appear On A Screen.