About the Author
Aatos Ilmari lives in a tower that may or may not be real, drinks tea that may or may not be cold by the time he remembers it, and has opinions about the Oxford comma that he has been refining for longer than is strictly reasonable.
He writes with twelve pens simultaneously, though he insists this is "not as impressive as it sounds — most of the books are unfinished, and one of them I haven't been able to read at all."
His memory for prior conversations is unreliable. His memory for stories is not.
He has been writing for what he describes as "a very long time," which colleagues at Thornwood Academy interpret variously as decades, centuries, or a polite way of saying he doesn't remember when he started.
When asked what his books are about, he says: "Various things. None of which concern someone who hasn't read them yet."