JMD Reid is a fan of fantasy genre, since he read The Hobbit. His creative mind is full with fantastic tales, which he is eager to share with us. When he is not writing, Reid likes playing video games, D&D and listening music.

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The interview:

1. Do you remember the first fantasy book you have read and made you fall in love with the genre?

Yes, it was the Hobbit. Given to me by my uncle when I was in the fourth grade!

2.  Fantasy has a lots of subgenres. Do you have any, which you prefer for writing and reading?

I enjoy epic fantasy. I like the big, sprawling stories.

3. Creating a whole universe is not just interesting, but a lots of work too. Do you like using some of your fictional universes for more stories, or you rather create a new world for every new book?

It depends on the story I'm telling. I have a fantasy universe that I created to tell multiple different stories across the world. My Secret of the Jewels series is the start of that project. But with more epic, world-ending stakes, I create worlds just for that story. My The Storm Below series has a very creative universe but I have no interest in telling more stories. I told the story the world was created to tell.

4. Do you have any book, or writer, who inspired you? Who and why them?

Yes, JRR Tolkien inspired me to love fantasy, Robert Jordan and his successor Brandon Sanderson influence my actual writing style. Robert Jordan always clicked with me. I was reading his Wheel of Time series starting back in 92 and was on that ride all the way to its end. David Eddings for his dialogue between his characters and R. Scott Bakker for his very human and flawed characters.

5. Magic is an important part of fantasy tales. Do you prefer soft, or hard magic systems? Why?

Soft magic can create very awe-inspiring moments. It can be mysterious and, well, magical. Hard Magic is fun in that there are rules and seeing how an author develops and exploits those rules can be a lot of fun. I tend to write hard magic, but I don't have a problem with either.

6. If you could take anything from a fantasy universe here to real life, what would it be and why that?

Probably Traveling from the Wheel of Time. Just making a portal to the other side of the world and step through. No more flying coach.

7. For you, what is the most difficult and easiest part of creating a book?

Not the world building, but writing down all those notes. It's tedius to get all those little details charted down so I can get to writing the book. The easiest part is the writing. It just flows.

8. What do you think about popular fantasy cliches?

Archetypes are often mistaken for cliches. Archetypes are the language of genre while cliches are just very specific ideas that are over used. But finding new ways to use archetypes is always good.

9. Do you have any new, or ongoing project at the moment? If yes, can you tell me a secret about it? 

I am preparing What Mask Hides for publishing early next year. It is set in the Secret of the Jewels universe and is a companion series. New characters that have connection to that series but are on their own story. It's about Lady Foonauri, an exiled noblewoman who has found how empty her life of seeking powerful men has left her drowning in guilt. When she gets a chance to become a thief and find purpose breaking the rules to help people, she embarks on a new life of double identity, political intrigue, and fantasy heists!

10. If you could live anywhere as anything, in any real, or fictional universe, what would you be and where? Why?

I really don't know. Just need a place to right. The place really doesn't matter so long as it doesn't interfere in that.