Babel Clash

Hi! This is my test post to see if I can make all this work. It’s not too different from my own website, robinhobb.com which is also a wordpress one.

I’m Robin Hobb, and I’ve been a fantasy novelist for 28 years now. Well, a published novelist for 28 years. There were other novels, of course, the test ones that every writer creates that never see the light of day! I should mention here that for many years I wrote and sold novels as Megan Lindholm. Most of those are currently out of print in the US, but some of my readers are familiar with that name as well.

My most recent book, Dragon Haven, is due to be published in May in the US. In the UK and Australia, it has been out since March.
Dragon Haven is the direct sequel to Dragon Keeper, and both books take place in the Rain Wilds, a setting I used previously in my Liveship books. This setting is very very loosely based on one of my favorite real places, the temperate rain forests of the Pacific Northwest, and especially the Olympic Penninsula here in Washington State. It’s a very lush place, with deep moss and huge trees, and of course it has the layering of biological strata that is a hallmark of rain forests.
When I read Sara Creasy’s book Song of Scarabaeus, I realized that one of the things we have in common is an enthusiasm for such settings.

Well, I think this is long enough for a first post. Let’s push ‘publish’ and see if it actually appears on the site!

Robin

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