And here’s the author of our second Selection this month – Patrick Rothfuss talking about his first novel, The Name of the Wind:

I grew up reading fantasy. I loved it. Starting around sixth grade I read a novel a day, sometimes two.

But eventually I started to get disillusioned. I would pick up a book and find myself thinking, "Haven't I read this before? It all seems really familiar...."

I got more dissatisfied when I started college and didn't have the time to read everything I stumbled across. I found myself irritated when books were predictable carbon copies of the ones I'd read years before. I found myself wanting a different kind of fantasy, I wanted something new....
So I sat down to write my own novel. I wanted something that made people feel the way I used to feel as a kid when I read Dragonriders of Pern, The Hobbit, or The Chronicles of Narnia. I wanted to avoid all the fantasy clichés and tell a story that was different and new.

It took me more than a decade, but it's finally done. I spent many of those years living poor and working less so I'd have time to write. But the feedback I've been getting these last months has made it all worthwhile. People tell me, "I got bored with fantasy years ago, but I loved your book."
The additional good news is that I've already written the entire trilogy. So you don't have to worry about long delays for the next two books. You also don't have to worry about the series rambling on and on. This story has an end, already finished and set in stone. After that, I'll have fun telling other stories in this world. I've come to love the characters that live there, and I'm glad I get to introduce them to you after all these years.