Baen Interview with Rosemary Edghill
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| Title: | Baen Interview with Rosemary Edghill |
| Interviewer: | Toni Weisskopf |
| Interviewee: | Rosemary Edghill |
| Date(s): | November 2005 |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom(s): | Science Fiction, Fantasy, Star Wars, Georgette Heyer |
| External Links: | interview is here, Archived version; reference link |
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Baen Interview with Rosemary Edghill focuses on the author's writing and its influences.
Excerpt
"I've gotta claim Georgette Heyer and Star Wars [as influences], as so many do. It was all the way back in the early eighties, and having read through all of Heyer, I was trying one of the current crop of Regencies, and had just gotten to the part where the heroine takes a train from London to Malta in 1805, ignoring all the rules of both history and geography. And in spite of all of my best intentions and impulses to emotional self-preservation, The Writing Fairy landed on my shoulder and whispered in my ear: even YOU can do better than that."Since I'd been writing a lot of Star Wars fan fic, I already was (at least in my head) in storyteller mode, so with one thing and another, it was not long before I had settled myself down in front of my venerable IBM Selectric III and typed: The early morning sunlight of the brilliant late March day sparkled off the sills and railings of the quiet row of townhouses in this fashionable section of London . . . .
"How hard, I thought, could this be? I didn't, after all, have to show it to anyone . . .
"We will draw a veil over the subsequent year of Living Dangerously. Suffice it to say that there I was in 1982, in possession of a 150,000-word Regency novel (Turkish Delight), a 5,000- word SF short story ('Hellflower'), and (with one thing and another) several years of practice, during which time I'd managed to make every single Beginning Prose Writer error. Twice. But I had also fallen among small press editors--notably Poison Pen Press' Devra Langsam, who gave unstintingly of her time and energy to point them out. I was tanned, rested, and ready.