WELCOME ADVENTURERS' TO THE INTERVIEWS AREA

Greetings lowly ones! to our Fighting Fantasy interviews area. If you ever wanted to know more about the artists, writers and editors of the Fighting Fantasy series, then this area is for you. The interviews page is an area of the site where we go behind the scenes of the series and interview many of those who contributed to its success. We have got many interviews waiting for you over the coming months.

As you can image we get quite a lot of mail here at Wizard Books from Fighting Fantasy the world over. Whether it’s in the post or through email quite a large proportion of these are questions about particular writers and artists, their early work and current projects. Within this area we will try to do our best and present exclusive interviews for your pleasure from some of the very best Fighting Fantasy writers and artists. If you are sitting at home with particular questions you would like to see asked send them to us at our usual address: mail@fightingfantasy.com.

Below is the transcript from a interview with Simon Flynn that took place in February 2005. I would like to personally thank him for taking the time out with us.

Simon Flynn

FFG: Can we ask Simon, what is your role within Wizard? The Icon website makes us aware that you are responsible for developing Icon's children's imprint, Wizard Books and that you are a co-author?

Simon: I'm the Publishing Director of Wizard Books and am essentially in charge of what we publish. I co-wrote a guide to internet the called The Internet from A to Z but that was a few years ago now and is nothing really to do with Wizard.

FFG: You look after Icon's distributors around the world, outside of North America. Does this involve a lot of travelling?

It involves one big trip a year to the Far East and Australia but most things can be done by e-mail nowadays.

FFG: Onto Fighting Fantasy now. How did you get involved with Fighting Fantasy?

As a nine-year-old, I bought The Warlock of Firetop Mountain when it first came out. That hooked me for the next couple of years and I never really forgot the series. When we were thinking of starting a children's imprint (Wizard Books) I kept thinking about Fighting Fantasy and visited a few bookshops to ask if they were still available. It didn't seem they were. So I did some investigating on the website and managed to get a contact e-mail for Steve Jackson. Thus began the conversation to bring Fighting Fantasy back.

FFG: Have you always been interested in Fighting Fantasy?

See answer to the previous question.

FFG: Are you responsible for the development of Fighting Fantasy?

Yes in relation to the books and in partnership with Steve and Ian.