Now August was a good time for swimming

[sovay]

I have been interviewed for posterity!

In honor of the book which is now three days from being a real, readable thing, Jeannelle M. Ferreira asked me eight questions on her blog and I answered. Read on to discover my thoughts on favorite stories, self-definitions, obsolete technologies, influences from film, and more:

An Interview with Sonya Taaffe, Author, Editor, Durian-Lover.

This is much better than the part of the day where it was so sticky and hot that I dreamed of being part of an amateur polar expedition, because apparently freezing to death in an AU Terror remix is better than whatever we've got melting clocks to sidewalks outside.

Comments

[sartorias]

Terrific interview, interesting and clearly written by someone familiar with your work. So much more insightful and intriguing than the one-size-fits-all questions.

[sovay]

Terrific interview, interesting and clearly written by someone familiar with your work.

Thank you!

So much more insightful and intriguing than the one-size-fits-all questions.

Jeannelle M. Ferreira is selkie and she has known me for almost eighteen years; we lived on the same hall in the same still-extant dorm at Brandeis (I specify because my senior year housing is now a memory) and she mistook my singing for a ghost in the pipes. She asks good questions.

[sartorias]

Ah, I think it was you who recommended her historical novel, which I enjoyed.

[sovay]

Ah, I think it was you who recommended her historical novel, which I enjoyed.

I'm so glad! I had the fun of watching that novel grow from a couple of scenes in 2011 into something that lots and lots of people on the internet are reading and the only credit I can take is that I kept looking beseechingly at Selkie to keep writing it.

[selkie]

Thank you! I'm struggling against my initial inclination which is to jump around nervously, followed by stating the obvious, e.g. "Hi, you wrote Crown Duel, hi" but I am glad you enjoyed the book and the interview. I'm so proud Sonya's collection is in the world, and I will move all kinds of heavy boxes to make sure people read it.

Thank you, too, for the signal boost on Twitter. :)

[sartorias]

Mutual admiration society alert!

I'm glad some people actually read the twitter link. (Most of the time I suspect my tweets go straight into the void.)