James Islington

Obviously romanticist just exploded over the last three or four years, especially I think since Fourth Wing.

It's funny, Fourth Wing launched two weeks before my book, before Will of the Many.

So I was looking at Fourth Wing going,

But, no, it is amazing because I think it is bringing in this whole raft of readers that may not have otherwise been interested in fantasy and they're reading romancy books and then obviously not all of them but some of them are then going, you know, I can actually enjoy this genre and then looking at other less romancy fantasy books.

So I think it's fantastic from that perspective.

You know, I think it's hopefully it's not too,

dominant.

I think that is one thing that I've seen a few people sort of say.

I've had friends kind of go into the bookstore recently and been a bit disappointed because they're like, here's two shelves, two massive walls of romance and I've got to look through and find my new, where's my new epic fantasy sort of thing.

But I think that's just, you know, everything kind of ebbs and flows and

I think it's still a very good thing.

Anything that gets people reading really is a really good thing.

Oh, absolutely.

Yeah, it's so good to see.

Because there just hasn't been that many.

Certainly again, back in 2014 when I started.

No, that was very much US first as well.

Yeah, I, so like, yeah, I was self-published and then my agent approached me and then a,

He's in New York.

And so we sold that trilogy to Orbit.