My favorite new character isn't new, but more fleshed out - Gadd, the alekeep at the Tunnel. He's got him some teeth and tats. His history is hinted at in Discourse, and I plan to explore it more in later books.

Original work has no floor and no ceiling. You can reach essentially zero readers or millions.

I loved The Weird (one of the stories in it inspired Blackalley in Discourse).

With young kids (I have four including the newborn) times passes weirdly for me.

The Disney deal created some wrinkles. I'm under contract. But I'm on standby.

The Sundering is a world spanning event that creates ripples all across the Realms. The books in the series are connected in that they take place against that backdrop, showing different aspects of it. The stories, however, are not sequels or intertwined, though there are some Easter Eggs across books.

I like to keep the world, to some degree, an implied setting.