I wanted to write a fantasy book that contained all the gritty elements I was seeing on TV shows like Black Sails, Spartacus, Sons of Anarchy, Justified, even Mad Men. Well, I was playing way too much Dungeons & Dragons, and I was obsessed with painting gaming miniatures, especially orcs and half-orcs. What inspired the world of The Grey Bastards? The Grey Bastards is released today I talked to French about how the novel rode off from blogs to book deals. By crafting a brutal but also fun story centered on nonhuman characters, French won the 2016 Self-Publishing Fantasy Blog-Off and soon landed a deal with Crown, an imprint of Penguin Random House. The fictional world of Bastards is the Lot Lands, a volatile landscape populated by half-orcs that might be more at home on gritty TV shows than in The Lord of the Rings. But with his latest book, The Grey Bastards, French created something entirely new.
Since 2012, Jonathan French has been self-publishing his Autumn Fallseries, drawing on a deep love of Tolkien and Dungeons & Dragons to develop an extensive fantasy world.
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