The Mundie Moms just posted a new interview with me about Kat, historical fantasy, and the challenges of writing as a mom (plus my best advice for beginning writers).
Here's an excerpt from the interview:
Was it challenging writing a book in the historical fantasy genre?
It was a really fun challenge to mix Jane Austen's early Regency era with the magical world that I made up. When I was worldbuilding in my notebooks, I came up with some big changes to earlier British history, back when magic was openly used (and, in my version of history, helped to cause the English Civil War!), but by 1803, when Book 1 takes place, magic has become the greatest social scandal of all, and magic workers have to keep their talents hidden and secret. So I worked hard to make all my day-to-day historical details accurate to the real Regency period, but I also had a great time figuring out how magic would secretly work alongside reality.
Read the full interview.
Story posted on April 27, 2010