Queer people in historical settings? As a case study, LGBTQ+ in the age of Chinggis Khan? How do you research that, how do you write them? I discuss these questions with Eric de Roulet. Includes the line, ‘This is rot, even though you can read it in fifty history books.’
Wrapping up a wide-ranging interview with @brynhammond.bsky.social. Gender and sexuality in Mongolia. How queer people haven't only existed in modern times. How the "barbarian" is depicted in historical fic and S&S. Temujin as "fairly sliding-scale in the matter of gender." Check it out:
This is part two of an interview with Bryn Hammond about her upcoming novella Waste Flowers, as well as writing craft in historical fiction (and sword & sorcery, as Waste Flowers arguably straddles th...