James Islington

So it's a constant kind of re-evaluation of the book, which I think really helps.

And then also I just I think I get to a point if I'm writing something and I'm like, I'm bored, then I think that's a good indication that I probably need to do something better with it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.

So I think a lot of it is just I like fast-paced books and so that's what I'm naturally inclined to write.

Yeah.

I mean, not so much that I did things differently.

Aside from Strength of the Few, which, as I was saying before, wrote those three strands separately.

Structurally, it was a very similar process.

But at the end of Lycanius, I actually, about six months after The Light of All the Falls came out,

I went back and I'm not much of one to look at reviews generally, but I went back and I went, all right, I'm going to look at all the, not all of them, but a lot of the three and four star reviews of these books and go, these are the ones that people who liked the series, but they had issues with it or it wasn't perfect.

And trying to get a sense of, you know, these are the areas that I can improve on.

And that was really educational.

It wasn't fun.

No.

But, you know, it is really educational to take a big group of reviews.

And I'm very fortunate that I was able to do that.

and go, all right, here's the common threads throughout that people have gone, I wish he had done this better.

And then trying to apply it moving forward.

Yeah, it seems, I'm very glad to say it, it seems that the general consensus is that it's better written than my previous series, which is great.

Yeah, sure.