Magic Dome Books is celebrating birthday: two years we've been translating books in English and we're so happy to meet so many wonderful people. We prepared several interviews for the date and we're starting with Vasily Mahanenko.
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Vasily Mahanenko is a fantasy author working in the new genre of LitRPG - the MMO-based fantasy and sci fi. His Way of the Shaman series took Russian literature by storm in 2012. Vasily dipped into his college-days insider knowledge as a hardcore gamer in order to create a believable world of the virtual-reality MMO game. His bestselling series combines fiction and video games, telling the story of Shaman and his friends stuck in the ruthless reality of Barliona. He used his more than ten years' experience as an ERP implementation project manager to approach his writing in a well-organized manner, working to a strict schedule, a set of deadlines and even a budget. |
Hi Vasily. It's been
two years since you started working with Magic Dome Books. How is it going?
Two years is quite a lot in publishing. Still,
I think I was luckier than most: I began working with MDB even before they
officially opened. My literary agent Alex and I spent quite some time discussing
potential projects and considering various translation options wondering whether
the idea was viable. So in fact for me it's been more than two years.
