Interviewing the AH Community: Nisi Shawl

[Gary Oswald]

Discuss this Interview here.

Nisi is non binary and uses they/them pronouns, for the record.

 

[Hendryk]

a sort of rude hand gesture aimed at the proponents of steampunk as an adventure in imperialism

Love that quote.

You describe yourself as a 'Social Justice Bard'

I like the idea that social justice comes with D&D-style classes. So not just warriors, but also bards, clerics, barbarians, rogues...

 

[Charles EP M.]

This is a pretty big 'get' for the interviews!

 

[Gary Oswald]

This is a pretty big 'get' for the interviews!

I've seen pleasantly surprised by the response of people with wikipedia pages to requests for interviews. I still get turned down a decent bit, but given how small the audience for this blog is (I don't know many people actually read the interviews but normally only around 10 to 20 interact with the posts either here or on social media) the fact that 4 or 5 of them have said yes is pretty good.

I fully intend to keep emailing agents. I think people like Nisi or Turtledove have a very different perspective to those of us who wrote our AH on amateur writing forums, though I also intend to keep chatting to more of those as well.