My guest this week is Anna Smith-Spark! She is the author of the Court of Broken Knives. She has previously been published in the Fortean Times and the poetry website greatworks.org.
We talk about gender in fantasy, writing, characters and world building. Also there are some jokes about Tony Blair.
I first met Anna on a panel at FantasyCon2015. I believe it was gender and sexuality representation Sci-Fi and Fantasy. I remember a point being made that we hope to one day not have these panels because the issue will have become accepted as representation begets representation.
But we still do get them – I did one at BristolCon this year. We talk about what Anna thinks of the progress that’s been made since and how we may have taken backwards steps recently.
We also delve into the Court of Broken Knives as Anna gives us insights into how she wrote it and where her characters came from.
You can find Anna online here:
courtofbrokenknives.org
https://www.facebook.com/anna.smithspark
