![]() ![]() Have you always wanted to write a fantasy romance? If not, when and how did the idea come to you? Mix it all up with fairy tales, which I also loved, and out pops the writer I am now. It all felt very similar to me, and I gobbled it down. ![]() So I never differentiated much between science fiction and fantasy. My dad had a huge collection of Edgar Rice Burroughs and shelves crammed full of pulp sci-fi, and they always seemed a lot like fantasy to me (especially their covers, which I loved). Conan, Red Sonja, The Beastmaster, Willow, “He-Man,” “ThunderCats”-and toss in superheroes, because I suppose that falls under fantasy (or science fiction), and Star Wars. Oh, I’m definitely a product of the 80s and all of those movies and cartoons. What were your favorite fantasy worlds growing up? ![]() We talked to Vane about updating the barbarian trope, crafting Maddek’s complicated relationship with Yvenne, his guarded and calculating love interest, and more. In Milla Vane’s new fantasy romance, A Heart of Blood and Ashes, protagonist Maddek and his fellow Parsathean warriors are ruthless, practical and feared-and their society is also sex positive and completely egalitarian in terms of gender. ![]()
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