3 December 2020 Sarah Zettel My joking answer to this question is that I leave a bowl of milk out on the back porch every night for the Idea Fairy. In the morning, the milk is gone and there’s a brand-new shiny idea by the bowl.
3 December 2020 Sarah Zettel Becoming a mother cannot help but change things. An author’s life is reflected in their writing, whether they want it to be or not, and parenthood is one of the biggest life changes there is.
3 December 2020 Sarah Zettel I’m mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.
3 December 2020 Sarah Zettel I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier.
3 December 2020 Sarah Zettel I have to do more close research and fact checking for the science fiction. This is not however to say that writing good fantasy does not involve doing good research.
3 December 2020 Sarah Zettel I graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications and left formal education behind.
3 December 2020 Sarah Zettel Then, I realized that there is an indigenous presence in the Solar System. It’s us. So, then, I got to wondering what would happen if a more technologically advanced society moved next door to us, the way we moved next door to the American Indians.
