Jen Williams’ first two books, The Copper Promise and The Iron Ghost are two of my favorite novels. Fast, massively creative, very funny and wonderfully nasty they follow an unlikely trio of occasional thieves and part time heroes as they inadvertently change their world, screw up a lot, save people and get drunk.They’re amazing and …
Interview: Jen Williams, the only person the Copper Cat listens to
Jen Williams’ books were instrumental in finally helping me love fantasy fiction. She writes, like compatriots Andrew Reid, Den Patrick, Liz De Jager and Edward Cox, real people who react in real ways to magnificently unreal events. Plus, in Wydrin, Jen has created one of the definitive fantasy heroines of the century. And certainly the definitive …
Jen Williams is one of a small, elite group of authors who’ve turned me round on fantasy fiction. Along with compatriots like Andrew Reid and Den Patrick she writes stories about refreshingly normal, flawed people faced with impossible situations. All three authors have a tremendous ear for a good bit of profanity, all three …
She’s an amiably violent thief who likes stabbing! He’s a knight thrown out of his order for a crime that wasn’t actually a crime! Their client is a horribly crippled noble planning horrific vengeance! They fight crime! Jen Williams’ The Copper Promise didn’t so much arrive as kick the door in and demand to know …