I’m talking with Carrie Patel about her new book, Cities and Thrones and revolutions.
You may remember Carrie Patel and The Buried Life.
Revolutions often don’t go as planned
We’ve been seeing a lot of dystopias
The Haitian Revolution and the French Revolution.
Fantasy Underground Bulgaria
Bulgaria’s J-curve (check out what happens in 1990)
Incubating a story
The beginning of the book gets more revision than the end
Bare Branches in India and China
Pillars of Eternity by Obsidian entertainment, which has lots of words
Dan’s envious of the people working on Pathfinder
See if you can pinpoint the point during the conversation at which Dan drank enough coffee to gain self-awareness