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I think most fiction focuses on uncomfortable settings because that's interesting.

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Reconciliation is a part of the healing process, but how can there be healing when the wounds are still being inflicted?

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In the 'Dreamblood' books, I'm focusing more on what I like about epic fantasy: the layering and depth of tension; the chance to really delve into the minutia of an alternate society and its politics; a large cast of characters to love and hate.

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If you can imagine something, it will be.

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Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can be affected by belief, the whims of the unseen, harsh language. And it is not. Supposed. To make. Sense. In fact, I think it's coolest when it doesn't.

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It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode.

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I am a linear thinker in a lot of ways.

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It's human nature that we come in our own flavours, and it doesn't make any sense to write a monochromatic or monocultural story unless you're doing something extremely small - a locked room-style story.

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As a black woman, I have no particular interest in maintaining the status quo. Why would I? The status quo is harmful; the status quo is significantly racist and sexist and a whole bunch of other things that I think need to change.

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With epic fantasy, there is a tendency for it to be quintessentially conservative in that its job is to restore what is perceived to be out of whack.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: September 19th, 1972

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