{"id":11456,"date":"2018-05-21T21:25:02","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T01:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=11456"},"modified":"2018-05-21T21:25:02","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T01:25:02","slug":"episode-270-ilana-c-myer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-270-ilana-c-myer","title":{"rendered":"Episode 270 – Ilana C. Myer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 270:
\nIlana C. Myer<\/a><\/p>\n

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“The writing has a plan, and it does whatever it wants with me.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>Fresh from her book tour, Ilana C. Myer<\/a> joins the show to talk about her new novel, Fire Dance<\/a>\"\" (Tor). We get into the jump she made for her second book, the process of crossing Celtic poets with troubadours and Mediterranean aesthetics and mythology as part of her world-building, the challenge of seducing the reader, why she writes fantasy instead of history, and her fixation on “books with magic in them” as a kid. We also get into how she balances life in Israel and the US, her process of self-discovery and her religious epiphany in a college astronomy class, the challenge of shutting out social media voices while keeping up a strong Twitter presence<\/a>, and more! Give it a listen!<\/a> And go buy Fire Dance<\/a>\"\" (and Ilana’s first novel Last Song Before Night<\/a>\"\")!<\/p>\n

“Without our history, without our traditions, who are we? I refuse to be someone who doesn’t have an identity.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n