Hell or high water would have been fine, but the pandemic? I didn't plan on that. In 2020, you projected it would come out in 2021, "come hell or high water or the actual return of actual King Arthur."
I almost hesitate to ask about a project you were working on pre-pandemic: Your Arthurian novel, The Bright Sword. Writing, you have to string those nice chains of thought, and as soon as you're interrupted, you have to start over again, and again, and again. She put it better than that, but she's not being attacked by an 8-year-old right now.
I think it was Joyce Carol Oates who said that the important thing about writing isn't talent, but not being interrupted. But I imagine the situation is not conducive to writing. And as it turns out, the current political climate has affected two of his upcoming projects - a book about the fall of King Arthur and a TV space opera.
But he's been working for a long stretch "without really publishing anything." So it seemed like a good time to get an update. "It's actually been super satisfying to have those come out," Grossman says. (Check out our interview with him about that here.) He did recently publish a children's book, and he wrote the screenplay for the new movie version of one of his short stories, The Map of Tiny Perfect Things. So now we know why it's taking the man who gave us The Magicians - which was adapted into an original SYFY series that ran for five seasons - a little longer than expected to deliver his next fantasy novel. When he was gone again, Grossman asks, "Would you like to help babysit?" "It's impossible for me to get more than 10 feet away from another human being." As if to demonstrate the problem, his 8-year-old son joined our phone conversation, looking for a little attention. "I haven't had 20 minutes to myself since last February," he tells SYFY WIRE. Grossman loves his three kids, but what a handful they've been for the last year - and what an impact they've had on his writing schedule. Author Lev Grossman is not having a fun quarantine.
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