Interview over at Deborah J. Ross's Blog

Tuesday, January 23, 2018 - 07:05

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Deborah J. Ross, the editor of Lace and Blade 4, is posting a series of interviews with the contributors as a lead up to the book's release on February 14, 2018. (Have you pre-ordered yet?) This week, my interview went up. Check it out for some background on how I came to write "Gifts Tell Truth" and general chat about my writing.

I'm excited to have an Alpennia story published in a mainstream SFF context. Although I have a number of pieces of Alpennia short fiction planned, what I don't have is a clear plan for how to get them to readers. "Three Nights at the Opera" was always a free giveaway from the start, in part because I wanted to have an appetizer to offer people who'd never read anything of mine. And I have plans to make advance access to Alpennia shorts one of the benefits of subscribing to my mailing list, especially for the pieces that are more in the way of character sketches rather than free-standing stories. But the weird neither-this-nor-that nature of the series makes it hard to identify potential publication venues. In essence, "Gifts Tell Truth" was written specifically for the theme of Lace and Blade. The specific story wasn't one I'd been planning to write all along.

The eventual end-game, once the series as a whole is complete, will be to put out all the short fiction in a convenient collection, but that's quite a ways down the road.

What "fill-in" stories would you love to read about Alpennia? Especially if I'm not constrained to telling stories centering on the lesbian characters?

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I really really really want

Permalink Submitted by Sara (not verified) on Tue, 01/23/2018 - 07:14

I really really really want to read a Brendel story.

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Yeah, there isn't any

Permalink Submitted by Heather Rose Jones on Tue, 01/23/2018 - 15:39

Yeah, there isn't any opportunity to get inside his head much in the novels, but I have some interesting plans for him. That is, all sorts of people have interesting plans for him, and he's going to have his own ideas about that. There's a brief sketch -- not a story, but more than a scene--that he might be a good point of view for that happens around the beginning of Mistress of Shadows, but that really doesn't fit into that book in any way. For that matter, there's a lot of background events happening during Mistress of Shadows that I'll probably be writing as short pieces.

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He does seem to be very much

Permalink Submitted by Sara (not verified) on Thu, 01/25/2018 - 11:59

He does seem to be very much his own person, which is part of what attracts me to him so much -- there AREN'T that many children characters that this can be said of, and it's a way many people describe G., and I would love to have a story of other children like that that I could read aloud to her. :) And I have <i>always</i> had a soft spot for boys.

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If I were writing an entirely

Permalink Submitted by Heather Rose Jones on Thu, 01/25/2018 - 13:57

If I were writing an entirely different type of book, it would be interesting to see his entire life from his point of view. But I think it would be outside the scope of the sort of book I want to write.

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