Joe Abercrombie

Ha. Crazy. I'm very conscious of using eyebrows a LOT when I'm doing a first draft, and much of my revision time is spent replacing eyebrow moves with other, more character-specific expressions. When I saw my name at the top of the list I worried that all that effort had been for naught. Then I realised it was in alphabetical order.

Savine was written with an italicised internal monologue a la her father, but I cut it out after the first part, or maybe the second. While Glokta says to himself all the things he can't or won't say to others, the joy of Savine was always that she says to people's faces exactly what she thinks, on the whole. I found myself searching for things to do with it, which is a good indication it's not necessary. She was much more effective without it.