When did you know you wanted to be a writer?Ībout three years after getting published. I wrote a book that deals with some serious and heavy topics, but I don't think that's incompatible with a reading experience that's full of excitement, emotion, and catharsis. But more than that, I would like the reader to enjoy themselves and be entertained. Lots of things! I would be delighted if the book made someone think a little harder about propaganda, radicalization, and the abuse of power. What do you want the reader to get from this reading experience? And I watched a children's TV show with an incredible redemption arc for the male villain ( Avatar: The Last Airbender, check it out) and thought: "why do female villains never get those chances? " And then, of course, I was following the news in 2016, and watching the rise of authoritarian populism around the world with increasing despair.
Konstantin Rega: What was the inspiration behind this book?Įmily Tesh: Some Desperate Glory was born from a lot of things. I studied ancient history at university once upon a time, and I never forgot the lectures on Sparta-a militarised ethnostate that knows the power of its own image, with its primitive eugenics and its commitment to breaking down family bonds in favor of loyalty to the state, all through the insane education system for citizen boys that they called agoge, cattle-raising. Some Desperate Glory is her first novel.Īpril 13: Fountain Bookstore in conversation with TJ Klune.
Winner of the Astounding Award and a Crawford Award finalist, Tesh is the author of the World Fantasy Award-winning Greenhollow Duology, which begins with the novella Silver in the Wood and concludes with Drowned Country.
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