Photo credit: Left: Marlon James; Right: JT Thomas Photography
Describe your latest book.
The Tangled Lands is a sequence of fantasy stories set in the city of Khaim. Khaim is a city besieged by bramble, cloying thorny vines that choke the land and cause any who touch them to sink into unending sleep. Worst of all, the bramble is caused by the inhabitants of the city itself. Every time they cast a magic spell, more tangling poisonous vines sprout up — and everyone has a good reason to cast just one more magic spell, whether to heal a loved one, or to lift a curse, or to find a lost valuable. And so the problem grows worse and worse.
By the time of the story’s opening, whole empires have been swallowed by the bramble...