Interview with Kate Elliott
- - April 14th, 2008
Fantasy Book Critic has just posted a great interview with Kate Elliott, author of Shadow Gate, over at his site:
For someone who hasn’t read any of your titles, how would you describe your writing style and where would you recommend they start?
I write lurid adventure fiction.I write historical novels set in imaginary worlds.I write HBO-style fantasy and SF, heavy on the characterization and detail with a big canvas and complex narrative. Take your pick, or ask me to come up with a different description.
While there are many “traditional” elements to the novels I write, I also work to bring stories and characters into the epic fantasy (and epic space opera, when I’ve written it) that are normally not considered to be part of “the tradition”. Whose lives are “worth” examining? Whose stories get neglected or overlooked because they aren’t deemed “important enough”? Who decides what matters? As a writer, I get to decide for my own books, and I always try to challenge my own expectations and assumptions about who needs, and gets, a voice.
