Usually when writers say they’re writing a satirical fantasy novel, they mean something in the vein of Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, just with elves and magic instead of robots and aliens. But in the following email interview about his new novel, Wyntertide (hardcover, Kindle), the second book in his Rotherweird trilogy, writer Andrew Caldecott says that while his book is a satire, it’s more Swift-like than silly.