For our second episode of 2024, we’re joined by the inimitable Kelly Link, whose forthcoming first novel The Book of Love is already receiving stellar advance reviews (including one from Gary in Locus). Kelly explains how the novel evolved, it connections to various genres from romance to supernatural horror, the importance of valuable encouragement from friends such as Holly Black and Cassandra Clare, the challenges of shifting from short fiction to a long novel, managing multiple narrative viewpoints, and maintaining the balance between the interiority of the characters and the large-scale history and spectacle of the fantasy elements. She also updates us a bit on Small Beer Press and her own plans for future work.
As always, our thanks to Kelly. We hope you enjoy the podcast!
Episode 295: Ellen Klages and Passing Strange
Episode 294: Just a Song Before We Go (on hiatus)
Episode 293: James Bradley, Ian Mond and Coode Street's Year in Review
Episode 292: Short fiction, defining fantasy and more
Episode 291: Radio Free America
Episode 290: David Levine and Fran Wilde
Episode 289: Baseball, Bob and more
Episode 288: Kai Ashante Wilson and A Taste of Honey
Episode 287: The Series Hugo and more
Episode 286: Eugene Fischer and Jo Walton
Episode 285: Connie Willis and Crosstalk
Episode 284: Alastair Reynolds, Revenger and the Far, Far Future
Episode 283: Kelly Robson and the Waters of Versailles
Coode Street Roundtable 7: Lavie Tidhar’s Central Station
Episode 282: Michael Swanwick, Kij Johnson and the Craft of Short Fiction
Episode 281: Liza Trombi, books we're looking forward to, and more
Episode 280: The Project of SF
Coode Street Roundtable 6: Madeline Ashby's Company Town
Episode 279: Tom Reamy, posterity and the death of the midlist
Episode 278: Life achievement and such
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