The Emperor’s Soul lists The Rithmatist and Steelheart in your novels. Are there publication dates for those yet?
Rithmatist and Steelheart? Both of these are coming out next year. The Rithmatist is the last book I wrote before being offered the Wheel of Time. It was the book I was working on and finishing. And it is a book about a boy who gets to go to a magic school, but he has no magical talents himself, he’s the son of the cleaning lady so he gets free tuition. And so he gets to go to this high-class school and get this high-class education that also trains wizards but he can’t do the magic, he just doesn’t have the genetics for it. And it’s a really fun book about a chalk-based magic where you basically play like a magical version of a tower defense game by drawing a circle around yourself in chalk and creating little beasties to go attack your opponent’s chalk circle. The loser is the first one that gets their chalk circle breached. It’s really fun and like I said, it’s kind of a mashup between those two ideas; the idea of the Muggle at Hogwarts mixed with these chalk magics. So that’s coming out next summer.
And sometime next fall or the following year is Steelheart, which is a book I’ve been working on for a long time that I also developed as a Hollywood pitch. And it’s about a world where people start gaining superpowers, but only evil people get them. And a big apocalypse basically happens because they just start taking over. And it’s about a young man whose father was killed by one of these creatures called Epics, evil superheroes basically. And he joins a team, or seeks to join a team, that all they do is hunt down Epics, figure out what their weakness is, and assassinate them. And he wants them to assassinate Steelheart, the Emperor of Chicago, cause he thinks he might know what Steelheart’s weakness is. So it’s one of these wacky things that pops out of my brain occasionally and so that’ll be coming out sometime eventually then. So thank you for giving me that wonderful marketing opportunity.
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