Anatomy of a Novel: Writing Fantasy with Sam Hawke
Welcome to another Anatomy of a Novel episode.
We’ve covered a range of different genres in this series including Crime with Candice Fox, Historical fiction with Kate Forsyth, women’s fiction with Monica McInerney and quite a few more. But we hadn’t covered a Fantasy novel so when the opportunity arose to chat to Australian Fantasy Author Sam Hawke author of The City of Lies and the second book in the Poison Wars series, The recently released The Hollow Empire we jumped at the chance.
Sam is a winner of Australia's premier genre prize the Aurealis Award, plus two Ditmar Awards and joint-winner of the Norma K. Hemming Award for excellence in exploring issues of gender, race, disability and class in SFF. Her work features the best ingredients for a superb fantasy series: war, mystery, betrayal, and magic. She has taken the US by storm with her debut, and her explosive sequel hit bookstore shelves in December 2020
City of Lies was described in a Guardian review as. a compelling fantasy whodunnit - imagine Agatha Christie channelled through Robin Hobb - and a page-turning coming-of-age tale.’ GUARDIAN
For this particular Anatomy of a Novel episode kel and I decided to call in someone who understands and writes the genre.
Jo Riccioni is a Sydney based author who was awarded a Varuna residency and a Bundanon Fellowship to work on her first novel The Italians at Cleat's Corner Store, published in 2015 and which won the fiction category of the International Rubery Award for 2015 in the UK. Jo is an accomplished short story writer and has now turned her hand to writing a new genre. With a love-triangle worthy of The Hunger Games, The Branded Season is Year of Wonders, The Last Hours and The Handmaid’s Tale brought to the fantasy realm and served up with all the romance, conflict and quick-fire narrative pace expected by readers of the genre.
So with those credentials Jo was the perfect choice to interview Sam. There’s so much gold in here for writers of all genres, not just fantasy, so grab a pen and paper, sit back and listen to Jo Riccioni and Sam Hawke giving us an Anatomy of the novel The City of Lies.
And if you’re a Fantasy lover don’t forget to click this link to enter the DOUBLE Sam Hawke book giveaway.
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