Why I Write Epic Fantasy

UK/AUS/NZ

With The Gathering Of The Lost currently shortlisted for the international David Gemmell Legend Award, which celebrates the epic-heroic fantasy genre, I thought it was time to talk again about why I write and love epic fantasy — especially given the body of thought “oot thar’”, that alleges that the genre is misogynistic, reactionary and glorifies violence.

Now if NZ author, Kate de Goldi, is right that every writer has a “bone” he or she tends to “gnaw away at through their writing”,...