You know you've always wanted to know more about Ekaterina Sedia. Just her name makes my imagination sizzle. Well, fortunately for all of us, Cheyenne has interviewed her. Cheyenne is away from her computer for the moment, so I'm posting the interview.

All the juicy tidbits about Ekaterina and her newest book follow. - Carrie

1.     Who is Ekaterina ( Read more... )

For me, I try to use creatures appropriate for a given place and time -- to me, each setting comes with mosnsters. For example, in The Secret History of Moscow I wrote about traditional folklore creatures of Russian myth, and in my WIP I'm writing about a fusion of African creatures and those that could be found in New Jersey (it's an immigrant ( Read more... )

I participated in a couple of interviews lately -- the first one for the OF Blog of the Fallen might be of interest, since among other things we talk about definitions of Urban Fantasy as well as the role of history, politics and myth in it.

The second one is more of a conversation between myself and Justine Larbalestier, posted at Fantasy Magazine, ( Read more... )

Hello, everyone. I am Ekaterina Sedia, and my current book, The Secret History of Moscow, came out in November 2007. It's a fairly dark story with heavy historical and political content, plus an overabundance of Slavic pagan myths. I feel very fortunate about the reception of the book -- several writers I admire greatly said nice things about it, ( Read more... )