Marie Brennan talks about writing A Natural History of Dragons + Enter to Win a Copy! (ends 13/02/13)

Sometimes you have to fiddle around with a book before it starts working, before you find the right approach to the story, the right voice for the narrator. In this instance, it took all of about three sentences. I knew, when I started writing A Natural History of Dragons, that it was going to be a Victorian-style memoir. When I started writing, I immediately discovered the delights of that approach. My protagonist is, especially in this first book, a headstrong and slightly naive young woman — but the woman who…