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hello!!! i just barreled through Cascade Failure and Gravity Lost and iām just obsessed. i genuinely canāt stop thinking about them so i have to ask if thereās any chance of a third book for the ambit crew???
there currently isn't one planned, but i live in hope!! i love this world and these characters, and would love to get back to them one day! š and until then, i'm gonna keep throwing words together and hopefully get to share something new!
Hi hello I feel like something reached into my brain stem and grabbed it when I started cascade failure. Iām five chapters in and Jal is possibly my favourite Guy ever. 10/10. 100000/5 stars. You have such a great narrative voice when you release more books I will give you my money so I can read them.
On a slightly less feral note, were there any particular pieces of media that inspired this series???? (So I can consume those as well when the crash out from finishing gravity lost inevitably hits)
we love feral!! feral makes us smile!!! i know there are a lot of firefly comps on the online book summaries, and that was definitely part of it. but i was also really into that show killjoys at the time--it has the same whambam wild crew energy, and also has like five seasons so there's plenty of it to gnaw on if you like it! also the soundtrack legitimately added five years to my life, so definitely recommend!
hi hi! feel like i'm late to the party because i only picked up cascade failure a few days ago, but i tore through it QUICK and can't wait to pick up the sequel soon. these are easily my favorite characters in such a long time, but jal especially has wormed his way into my heart!! (and the rest of the crew is close behind). did you have a favorite character to write for? and were there any mutations or augments you thought up that didn't make it through the final edit? (and of course, thank you for a new favorite book!)
and i am even LATER to the party answering this ask!! i loved writing the whole crew, but jal is my favorite character by a maybe-slightly-shameful amount (my southern self is eternally delighted i got to do a Space Southernerā¢). as for mutations and augments, they all came out just about where they started in brainstorming, except that nobody had to be subjected to my rabbit hole spelunking exercises into extreme human physiology--and the world is probably better for that. š
(and of course, thank YOU for the lovely words!)
Hey, so i have become absolutely obsessed with cascade failure (about to start gravity lost) and i just want to ask if you would be able to share more in depth what each of the crew members looks like, such as their clothes and physical appearance? :)
hello there! i can do you one better! here's the character art from the pre-order art card :)
featuring The Blue Coat(TM), saint's legendary side-eye, and a torchie cameo
Hi! I just picked up cascade failure onna whim a few weeks ago and ended up going back for gravity lost about 4 chapters imto the first book cause I knew I was hooked. I work at my local b&n and ive been reccomending this dualogy to anyone who will listen. Im gonna have to shortlist more copies cause we only get one in at a time lol
Anyway, pls write more book. ur words r good and i want read <3
this is so wonderful, thank you so much!! and definitely working on that last bit š fingers crossed i'll get to share more soon!
hi! where did the name Ambit come from? Gambit? Ambition? i'd love to know!
i love this question! in part because the answer is a ridiculous mishmash of inside jokes and me being really bad at idioms. my first car was called gambit (after the one and only remy lebeau, naturally), and for the longest time i thought the phrase was running the gambit, which i thought would be kind of fun title/ship name wise.
ONLY, it turns out the phrase is actually running the gamut, and i didn't like that as a ship name. gambit felt a little on the nose, too. but if you drop the g, you get ambit, which refers to the limits or range of something, which i thought was really cool conceptually for a vessel used to push the boundaries of exploration and go to the very edges of the universe. thus, the ambit was born (and the series name, ambit's run, was my silly little wink to all those years i spent getting that idiom totally wrong)
hi itās not really a question, but i just binged Cascade Failure and i absolutely adore these characters youāve created! i couldnāt help but truly giggle at some lines (despite being in a car with my mother) because i loved it or wasnāt expecting the snark (somehow, considering the characters lmao)
the giggles are absolutely the point š
Hi! I just finished Cascade Failure and I love it so much. Thank you for writing such a wonderful book! I immediately bought Gravity Lost and am so excited to read it. Also, I really appreciate your answer to the question on face casting. Iām hypophantasic, so I can barely form images in my head. Itās great to know how you picture your characters. Canāt wait to see what you do next!
thank you so much!! i hope you enjoy(ed? are enjoying?) gravity lost, and i'm stoked you liked the face cast! if there are ever any other characters you're curious about, let me know! can't promise i'll remember exactly who i had in mind when i was writing them, but i should at least be able to get us in the ballpark! āŗļø
Hello! I spent the last two weeks reading your duology and your characters absolutely stole my heart. I really got the sense you invested a lot of time of building them up and exploring their relationships with each other. I just wanted to let you know I can't stop thinking about them and will absolutely fly to the shelves if any more ever came out <3
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characters and all their messy, awesome, awful relationships have always been my favorite part of books (what do you mean i have to actually have a plot?), so i can't tell you how much it means when people enjoy these chaotic little hobgoblins.
Why are you so good??????? This makes no sense?? Iām not into Sci-fi as much and here I am, done both books in three weeks??? Are you a witch????
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(seriously, though, this made me smile. so glad you enjoyed them!)
Impulse bought Cascade Failure and for the first time in a long time actually got myself to read the book i bought. Anneka talks like how I think while Jal has my reaction to social anxiety and prepping to say things way before hand. The only other series that has made me feel so seem as a person was the Murderbot Diaries. I haven't finished Gravity Lost yet but I needed to thank you for putting bits of me on the page. I used to think I knew what feeling connected to a character felt like but you have taken it to another level. I am ever so slightly devastated to know there is not a third book planned for but I am definitely going to keep a watch for any other works from you while holding these two close. The little foursome (fivesome with Bodie really) crew has well wedged themselves into my heart. I'm probably going to annoy people around me till they read them so i can talk to people about them. I'm just past the bar scene in Gravity Falls and really, it is so so good. I laughed so hard I had to put down the book. Wrapping it up, thank you so much for writing these books.
this makes me so happy, thank you! ā¤ļø i think everyone weaves a few threads of themselves into some of the characters they write, and it's such a wonderful thing to know that some of those threads resonate with other people too. everyone should get to feel seen (and get to laugh so hard they gotta put their book down for a secondāthat's important, too ššš)
I just finished Cascade Failure and I'm probably going to buy a copy of Gravity Falls tomorrow because I don't think I can wait my turn for my library's copy. I love your characters so much! I'm especially invested in the relationship between Jal and Saint - there's something so lovely about repairing a friendship. I'm very much over real life AI, but sci-fi AI that raises questions about humanity is lovely. (I think Eoan would appreciate being thought of as lovely.) I aspire to engineer as well as Nash does one day. And of course, Bodie is my favorite!
thank you so much! i can confirm that eoan would absolutely appreciate being thought of as lovely, and may your engineering adventures involve a torchie-the-plasma-cutter (or contemporary, situationally appropriate equivalent) of your very own! š
Hi! I just picked up Cascade Failure and excited to get lost in the world! Iām always curious about pronunciation so I wanted to ask if Jalsen was pronunciation with a hard or soft āJ?ā Thanks in advance!
VERY late getting to this, but it's pronounced with a soft "j" like hall-sen. which made for some very fun moments in the audiobook when jal goes down the hall or jal hauls something. š it was of course totally intentional and not at all something i only realized after the fact.
hope you enjoy(ed?) it!!
Hi! This isn't an ask, but I wanted to say that your books are amazing. When I was younger, I used to burn through books, but I lost that love a long time ago. Now it takes me weeks to get my way through a book, and I'm struggling the whole time, whether it's audio or a paper copy.
Not with Cascade Failure or Gravity Lost. I absolutely fell in love with your characters and the way they interact. I ended up listening to both books within 3 days because I just couldn't get enough! The real consequences of what they've done and what they've been though was something that had my heart hurting right with theirs. These two books brought back a love of reading I'd thought I'd lost, and I can't wait to see what other works you come up with. (Even if they don't include our favorite crew of misfits!)
this means so much!! i was also a voracious reader when i was a kid, and i went through a similar sort of multi-year reading slump that i honestly only recently started to shake off (with the help of some really great, itch-scratcher books). knowing that the ambit's run books could do that for someone else makes me so happy, you don't even know. š„° thank you!!
Hi! Just finished Gravity Lost and I'm obsessed! That and Cascade Failure are the only books ove rated 5 starts so far this year š„°š„° They're such a hoot! Anyway, I was wondering if you have any face casts for certain characters? Like real humans you think look sort of like the Ambit crew? (Or any of the characters tbh) I've got aphantasia so I can't picture stuff in my brain. I've gotta settle for spinning a jpg on my phone instead of microwaving them in my mind lol
oh hi! you say hoot too! š (it's right up there with copacetic and yeehaw for me)
and yes! i'm pretty visual, so i picked out face casts early on for, at least the core four. jal is garrett hedlund, saint is idris elba, nash is jessica henwick, and eoan is indya moore. there are a couple side characters that i got overinvested in and fell down the face claim rabbit hole on, too, if there's anyone you're curious about in particular!
YOOOO cool to find you here!! I charged through Gravity Lost in just two days it was so damn good (and then immediately went back to reread cascade failure.) Thanks for giving us such good books!
YOOOOO i am so bad at Being On The Internets but thank you so much for the kind words!! :) this makes my week!
ahhhhhh (she says, very cool and chill and professional) CASCADE FAILURE made it into the voting round of Discover Sci-Fi's Readerās Choice Sci-Fi Awards--chilling in the "best debut" category with some other amazing pics
voting is here if you're curious about the other contenders (whispers: or want to vote for your favorite crew of disaster dumplings in the debut category)