I’ve always thought that Mark Twain would be a really fun person to have a conversation with. If you could meet anyone famous, dead or alive, who would it be and why?.Clearly I would have to rectify this myself! As we didn’t have the internet back then, it seemed likely that this meant that there were no more talking animal books in the WHOLE WORLD. I think I was nine or ten years old, and discovered that there were no more talking animal books in the library. When did you first realize you wanted to be an author?.I’m not an actor by any stretch, and I don’t really like how I look on video, but with enough makeup–or motion capture!–I could have a lot of fun being a weird critter. Ha! Probably an extra in the goblin market. If a director wanted to make Nettle & Bone into a movie and wanted you to act in it, who would you be and why?.Wherever fine books are sold, I hope, but the special hardcover edition is available here: I think I took four or five months? But of course the book had been percolating in the back of my head for years by that point, so six months stretched over six or seven years? Lindsey, my editor, really liked that one, so I sat down to write it. Then I was working with my editor at Tor to figure out what book to write for them, and I ended up sending over a lot of these fragmentary things I’d been working on. A few years later, I pulled it out again and added more, up to about fifteen thousand words or so. I wrote the first few chapters years ago, over the course of a week, and then set them aside because I didn’t quite know where they were going. How long did it take to draft the book?.Concocting all the merchants and cooking up things like the moth cocoon and the Toothdancer was just plain fun. I didn’t have to worry about where any of them came from or what to do with them, I could just have fun with the imagery. The goblin market, I could just go hog wild and write all these weird characters in that didn’t have to follow the rules of the rest of the book. Normally in a fantasy novel, the weird things happen one at a time and you have to fit them into the plot. I really enjoyed writing the goblin market scene. Which scene was your favorite to write and why?.I mean well, I worry a lot, I am always slightly overwhelmed, and all my skills are very highly specialized. Which of the characters are you the most similar to in Nettle & Bone?.It all started with a very short story called “Godmother” which fell somewhere between flash fiction and poetry, and which started with the line, “You came to me in your cloak of nettles, with the dog made of bone at your side.” I liked the story, but I kept wanting to know more about it, and eventually I sat down to figure out who the woman was who’d built her own dog out of bones and all the rest. How did you come up with the story of Nettle & Bone?.An Interview with Ursula Vernon, author of Nettle & Bone!
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