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b'Please enjoy the spoiler-free portion of our interview with author Seanan McGuire discussing several of her books, "Into The Drowning Deep", "Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day", "Middlegame", the Toby Daye series, and the Incryptid series. Other works mentioned include Newsflesh (series), Ghost Roads (series), "Rolling in the Deep", and Parasitology (series). Timestamps are marked for the interview questions. This interview was recorded several months prior to the 2021 Hugo Awards.\\nBecome a Patron at any level to receive the spoiler-filled second half of the interview.\\nIntro (0:00)\\nCan you talk a little about the way trauma works in your writing? (0:20)\\nHas a traumatic event in your books ever changed your perception of a character? (3:00)\\nWhat parts of your identities do you notice making appearances in your writing more than you intended? What parts of your identities do you notice seeping into your work unintentionally? (6:20)\\nWhat is your approach to incorporating visible queerness in your work? (10:05)\\nHow does setting influence queerness in your stories? (12:40)\\nWhat is your approach to incorporating visible characters of color in your work? (16:25)\\nDo you tend to write disabilities based on a specific set of references or do you tend to write cultures that hide disabilities and all that they entail? (22:00)\\nWhen building your characters\\u2019 identities, what aspects did you intentionally include? (25:00)\\nDo you consider your character\\u2019s physical description when writing how other characters treat them? (26:20)\\n--- Wrap-Up and Outro: Included in Part 1 and Part 2 ---\\nWhat is your favorite non-traumatic thing in any of your books? (29:57)\\nDo you have a favorite book written by someone else, and if so what makes it your favorite? (31:46)\\nDo you have any queer authors and/or authors of color whose work you\\u2019d like to shoutout? (32:49)\\nWhere can our audience find you? (36:15)\\n---\\nCheck out Seanan\'s website for more about her writing. Follow her on Twitter and Instagram.\\xa0\\n---\\nAt each link you can find Robin\'s written reviews of Seanan\'s work under her own name, her writings as Mira Grant, and as A. Deborah Baker.\\nMusic provided by HeartBeatArt and is used with permission.'