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“Please feel free to ask anything you like about Yashim or writing or history - the whole agonising business… I will try to answer promptly!” Jason Goodwin

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Damn you Jason! I am now re-reading Lords of the Horizon immediately after finishing it for the first time. This is the submerged part of the knowledge iceberg which makes the Yashims so intelligent as well as fun. Has someone written anything (other than your intriguing paragraph) about Ludovico the bastard son of Andrea Gritti? Will you ever write the back story of the glorious Stanislaw Palewski? Write on.
Jason Goodwin The Gritti family saga is fascinating, isn't it? A Venetian friend of mine is writing about the Duke of Naxos, another fabulous figure from that era, but I think Gritti is unclaimed. Would you try it? I'm so glad you've enjoyed exploring the Ottomans - and as for Palewski, yes, oddly enough I do have a kind of a plan for his back story. Highly romantic, of course. Thanks for reminding me...
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Is The Baklava Club the last book in the series ?
Jason Goodwin For the moment, yes. I do have other Yashim stories I could tell, but I'm currently working on different ideas and projects. Procrastinating? Probably!
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Who is your favorite fictional couple, and why?
Jason Goodwin Tintin and Captain Haddock, because it has the improbability of a true friendship
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No question. I just finished The Baklava Club, maybe 20 minutes ago. Finishing your books is always painful - when will I get more of your truly incredible writing. I mean, who can describe a jail cell like you? Reading your novels is like going to a truly good restaurant and having every morsel taste devine. It's funny: I always want the book to end but don't want the experience to end. Thank you. Kerry
Jason Goodwin Dear Kerry - you are too kind, and brighten up a chill january morning! Oddly, I only logged into Goodreads for the first time in months this morning - how did you know? Anyway, so glad you enjoyed the Baklava Club. I was very happy with Czartoryski's swim, and I enjoyed writing the hapless terrorists. I suppose the lesson, as ever, is that mad idealism is never wise. Good luck and thank you.
Best wishes
Jason
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Hi Jason, do you know if and when your last Yashim book The Baklava Club will be released in The Netherlands?
Jason Goodwin Hi Berber, Sorry to have missed this! Well, the truth is that no-one knows if, or when, the book will be translated into Dutch. The trouble is that readers in The Netherlands are so quick off the draw that they tend to read in English and leave the Dutch publishers nothing but the slimmest pickings, so unless they can assume a huge domestic market they tend to either translate within minutes of the book's original publication or not at all… I leave it to you to start a Yashim campaign!
Best,
Jason
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How do you deal with writer’s block?
Jason Goodwin Walking helps. Not getting blocked in the first place is best.
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