Oh, but it does, and it’s been proved to work-just play an RPG! One thing I passionately loved in Final Fantasy IX, my very favourite Final Fantasy at the end of the day, is that one moment you’re with the thief-turned-thespian Zidane and a wonderfully dashing attempt to kidnap a princess in the middle of a theater performance-then you’re with…some very bizarre kid called Vivi…who has lost his ticket and is getting negged by a horrifying rat child. Why do you think this works so well (when really, it sort of shouldn’t)? You have a knack for approaching the next part of the story from a completely different vantage point, which is deliciously frustrating for the reader. Who’s telling this story? What is the truth as someone else understands it? Which is why, where the last two books have been told very much from the perspectives of the Nine Houses, we’re finally in a setting where the Houses have pulled back, and the truth told is completely different. That’s kind of one curtain I wanted to pull back on The Locked Tomb as a whole. Except there are also a bunch of other storytellers popping up in the priority list as she lets her guard down. Nona is the next rule on the priority list-the next storyteller. The priority character is always Gideon Nav herself, but after Gideon the Ninth, in many ways, she gets knocked out of the ring. The Locked Tomb has always followed a concrete set of rules about whose point of view we’re in-there’s a priority list and a hard if-and-else-if set of codes about who is telling the tale. You have been warned!) Can you tell us about Nona the Ninth? How would you contextualize it alongside the previous Gideon the Ninth and Harrow the Ninth? We asked Tamsyn some questions about Nona the Ninth, the next installment of the Locked Tomb series, which comes out on September 13. She currently lives and works in Oxford, in the United Kingdom. A Kiwi, she has spent most of her life in Howick, New Zealand, with time living in Waiuku and central Wellington. It has been nominated for the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, the World Fantasy Award, the Dragon Award, and the Eugie Foster Memorial Award. Her fiction has won the Locus and Crawford awards.
Tamsyn Muir probably doesn’t need a lot of introduction here on Tumblr, but for those who aren’t yet familiar with her work: Tamsyn Muir is the bestselling author of the Locked Tomb Series.
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