Interview: The Books That Made… Andrew Watson (E01)

NEW SHOW! Welcome to the first episode in a series we're calling THE BOOKS THAT MADE ME. We're delighted to have a very special guest, author of the Shadowbinders Trilogy and new novella Silence Is Silver-it's the one, the only, Andrew Watson (‪@the_fools_tale‬)!
In this show, we're asking authors to pick the eight books that made them the author they are today. It's a little bit Desert Island Discs, but totally not that, because we don't want to be sued.
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Andrew's Choices
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► 1. A book that inspires you to write
Mistborn (Brandon Sanderson)
► 2. A book you wish you had written
Name of the Wind (Patrick Rothfuss)
► 3. A book that taught you something important about storytelling
Dungeon Crawler Carl (Matt Dinniman)
► 4. A non-fiction book about writing that you love
On Writing (Stephen King), What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (Haruki Murakami)
► 5. A book that give you The Feels
Assassin's Apprentice (Robin Hobb)
► 6. A book that will pick you up when you’re feeling down
Murderbot (Martha Wells)
► 7. A book from when you were becoming the person you are now
10% Happier (Dan Harris)
► 8. A book that you recommend to everybody
The Ember Blade (Chris Wooding)
► Album
The Wicked Symphony - Avantasia
► Luxury item
Chemex
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[@the_fools_tale]

This was a fun chat! Thanks so much for having me on! I can confirm the Gollum file is lost forever. Thank goodness

[@hardysbooks]

Another piece of lost art, robbed from the world

[@SenneW]

I don't believe you 🧐

[@charliereadabook]

Staring at my screen until this goes live

[@CamsCampbellReads]

This was a really fun watch. Looking forward to more in the series.

[@charliereadabook]

This was great 🎉

[@ladymairreads]

Okg I AM HERE FOR GRUB!!!!!

[@timburbagereads]

I really enjoyed this. Instead of Desert Island Discs, you could call it Barren Mountain Books? I would love to be a guest on this, though I haveb't published yet. I think the questions that you ask aren't focussed on writing craft too much, so you can have a real variety of people rather than merely published authors.

[@hardysbooks]

It's something we considered, but we decided to focus on authors at the moment, as that's the kind of content I wanted to watch. I love hearing authors talk about this stuff, especially authors of books I've read and loved. It also helps that we've had the opportunity to chat to a number of authors recently who've made positive noises about coming on the channel and it helps to have a show format ready to go.

[@ladymairreads]

And Laura I have a paperback of the ember blade you’re welcome to borrow