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Exclusive Interview: “The Free Bastards” Author Jonathan French

 

With The Free Bastards (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), writer Jonathan French is bringing to a close The Lot Lands trilogy he launched in 2018 with The Grey Bastards and continued in 2019 with The True Bastards. In the following email interview, French discusses what did, and didn’t, influence this final installment, and hints and says it may not be as “final” as the end of a trilogy implies.

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Exclusive Interview: “The True Bastards” Author Jonathan French

 

In his epic grimdark fantasy novel The Grey Bastards, writer Jonathan French introduced us to a fantasy realm some described as being like if the orcs from The Lord Of The Rings movies formed a Sons Of Anarchy-like biker gang, albeit with mounts instead of motorcycles. With the second book in this series, The True Bastards (hardcover, Kindle) now out, I spoke to French via email about what inspired and influenced the second book in what will hopefully be a trilogy.

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Exclusive Interview: “The Grey Bastards” Author Jonathan French

 

In many fantasy novels, the hero — or at least the main characters — are humans, or maybe human-adjacent creatures like hobbits. But in The Grey Bastards (hardcover, Kindle), writer Jonathan French centers the first book in his epic fantasy series around some rather inhuman orcs.