CaFae Convos - Charlie Jane Anders
I literally forgot that I was interviewing her tomorrow. (Specifically Oct 9, 2pm - sorry for the lateness!)
Charlie Jane Anders is a queer sci-fi/fantasy author of multiple bestselling books, including The City in the Middle of the Night and All the Birds in the Sky. She's won the Hugo, Nebula, Sturgeon, Lambda Literary, Crawford and Locus Awards. She co-created Escapade, a transgender superhero, for Marvel Comics and wrote her into the long-running New Mutants comic. And she's currently the science fiction and fantasy book reviewer for the Washington Post.
Basically, she's everything I want to be when I grow up.
Let me know what questions you may have, and sorry again for the last-minute-ness of this post. It's been a long week.
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FUCK ME!!!! Just finished Heart of Iron. What a roller coaster ride! Thank you. Thank You, THANK YOU!!!!
How did she go about creating a trans superhero? Did the superhero element come first, or the comic?
Maybe its too basic, but when she started writing queer fantasy, what did she want to see happen? Were there any specific goals?