Today, KARI SPERRING answers questions set by the editors of
The Alchemy Press Book of Ancient
Wonders.
Tell us a little
about yourself, and what you like to write?
I'm a mediaeval
historian (specialising in Celts) by training and a writer by instinct – I started
writing aged seven and I haven't stopped since. I love swashbucklers, ancient
mysteries, things and people who are not what they seem, complex worlds and
intrigue, which get into everything I write. As does water; I can't account for
that, but most of what I write ends up with water as a key element.
If the TARDIS could
drop you off to any one site in its heyday, where would you go?
Oh, goodness, that's hard ... I don't know. Maybe the court
of Louis XIII or Louis XIV: I'd love to meet the real d'Artagnan, Athos,
Porthos and Aramis.
What appeals to you
most about ancient sites/landscapes?
That sense that the past is still there, immanent in every
stone and that we are all part of the flow of history.
What do you have
coming out next?
I have a sequel to The
Grass King's Concubine due from DAW, probably next year. It has no final
title as yet, but the working title is Death
and the Madwoman
[Kari Sperring grew up dreaming of joining the musketeers
and saving France, only to find they’d been disbanded in 1776. Disappointed,
she became a historian and as Kari Maund published six books and many articles
on Celtic and Viking history, plus one on the background to favourite novel, The Three Musketeers (with Phil Nanson).
She started writing fantasy in her teens, inspired by Tolkien, Dumas and
Mallory. She is the author of two novels, Living
with Ghosts (DAW 2009), which won the 2010 Sydney J Bounds Award, was
shortlisted for the William L Crawford Award and made the Tiptree Award
Honours’ List; and The Grass King’s
Concubine (DAW 2012).]
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