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01/28/2007 Archived Entry: "Roberta Gellis Interview"

Another long-time favorite romance author of mine -- Roberta Gellis! She was interviewed yesterday at Word Wenches, talking about difficulties with her Historical Novels going out of print, her favorite genres, and what she is working on now -- a historical fantasy series with Mercedes Lackey (This Scepter'd Isle, Ill Met By Moonlight and two more to follow).

Jo [Beverley]: Your recent fantasy fiction has been based in history, too, in particular, the Tudors. Tell us more about those books.

Roberta: That's really too general a question, but I can state the basic idea Mercedes Lackey and I had. We were not going to do alternate history, which is usually what is done in historical fantasy. We were going to relate the known events of history as accurately as we could and bring in the fantasy in other ways. When I started to research the events of the reign of Henry VIII and Mary, I discovered that although all the serious historians agreed on what happened, none could agree on why it happened. There we had it. Mercedes and I felt with so much flat disagreement among serious historians, the addition of elves (the Sidhe) would not do much more damage.

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