argh I heard your area got hit—someone I ran into today who lives out that way said it looked like a tornado had been through. Hope you get power back soon!

Thank you Martha!

eh, Drowned is a sequel so that’s par for the course, but will love to see Dragon’s Breath get as much attention as it deserves!

Thank you!

The most auspicious of covers!

oh man now I’m curious to do a re-read. Teen me was soooooo into reincarnation romance, a criminally underused trope in modern western epic fantasy I must say

I’m glad you mentioned this repeatedly, because it somehow finally clicked: oh I AM free, I should go

Phyllis Eisenstein was a big one for me when I was a kid. Surely someone has mentioned Katherine Kerr already…and what about Vonda McIntyre, I guess Dreamsnake was science fantasy in much the same way Pern and Sharon Shinn’s angel books were, but it felt like epic fantasy to me at the time

I’m anxiously awaiting this book after your glowing review

episode 1 was (IMO) more of a push you away, rather than pull you in, type of storytelling

don’t even

it’s the weariness with which they deliver the solution that absolutely sent me 😂

so frustrating! I often think of the glorious local specificity of Kathleen Jenning’s Flyaway and how much pleasure it brought to US readers who certainly wouldn’t have grasped the context of every single detail, but found it richly compelling nonetheless

actually now that I literally JUST saw that Lili Wilkinson won a Victoria Literary Premier’s Award, which reminds me that so did Kate Murray for a YA fantasy last year, maybe Aussie fantasy is breaking through into mainstream recognition actually 🤷🏻

oooh thank you!

I believe I’m actually related by marriage in some distant way to Cecilia Dart-Thornton 😂

how big’s that TBR now Foz

that was an interesting read by Kim Wilkins. I think some things have changed since 2008, but it still seems broadly true that genre fantasy isn’t considered Australian literature (Aussie SF’s credentials are more recognised maybe—eg Laura Jean McKay & Grace Chan)

I’m going to give the show another try, this time selectively skipping past Hat Dude 😂