John Jarrold responsible for River Of Gods?!

John Jarrold seems to get everywhere. In a Locus interview Ian McDonald says he was at lunch "with my agent John Parker and my editor John Jarrold in 1999" and was saying, 'Why has nobody ever done a science-fictional equivalent of Kim, a wide-scale book set in India?' and John Jarrold said, 'Well, I think it's your job to do it then!'

Easy when you say it like that.