17 Oct
I wanted to ask Kel and mathematics. Was that a deliberate stab for feminism, or were you just trying to make her opposite of Alanna?
Tammy: I wanted to give her something of her own. Umm, I knew Kel had to be very different than Alanna, and…I wanted to her to be happier at something that [...]
17 Oct
Um, my question is actually about the Darkings, which, ironically, are my favorite characters. [...] How did you come up with them? [...] And would you actually ever consider doing the service of giving them a book?
Tammy: It’d be a heck of a book. Umm, my best friend Raquel, who is the basis of Queen [...]
17 Oct
Tammy: It’ll be from the viewpoint of her squire, one of the girls that she met in Squire.
SOURCE: [audio file: DragonCon 2008]
TRANSCRIBED BY: Len
17 Oct
Where did the idea of pigeons in Terrier come from?
Tammy: Well, Robert Howard once did a story on the pigeons from hell — well, they were not taken seriously in his day. I think it’s in Greek Mythology that pigeons are — carry messages from Hades. When I started working on the Daine books, I [...]
16 Oct
I really admire your ability to make up slang, and then use it consistently throughout the book. How did you do it?! Was it easy for you?
Tammy: Easier than it might have been, since I used a book called SLANG THROUGHOUT THE AGES! (I’m not good at making things up.) I went for words that [...]
16 Oct
in one of the Keladry books one of the convicts who kidnapped Lalasa was named Noll. Would he be any realtion to the Noll family of Terrier?
Tammy: Sometimes these things run in families. }8-D
And sometimes not! But yes, as I’m working on Beka’s story, I am trying to have some names recur. [...]
16 Oct
Will I ever see my beloved Alanna and the rest of the crew from the original quarter again?
The Song of the Lioness quartet is the favorite for many of us.
Tammy: Actually, you’ll get to see them in Numair’s book, which I will write when I am finished with the Beka Cooper trilogy. And you will [...]
16 Oct
If George didn’t want Aly to become a spy, why on EARTH did he teach her so thoroughly to be one? From the inserts in TC about lessons in spying, the letters with advice about spying from Myles and George, and the fact that she reads as if she’s VERY practiced at spying, I find [...]
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