I'm reading Red Sonja for the first time, and I was wondering, what sort of accent do you Sonja has? English, Scottish, American, or a kind of Eastern European, like Polish?

It’s complicated for me. I write her dialog without accent at all because whatever language she is speaking, she speaks it fluently, like a native. So for English readers, she is speaking English without an accent, and it would be the same for Spanish readers in Mexico, or Japanese readers in Japan, whatever. So when writing her dialog, I don’t hear an accent at all because I am in HER world, not transporting her into mine.

When I think of her interacting with a person speaking English, I imagine her with an Eastern European accent. But she’s definitely a polyglot and languages come naturally to her.