{"id":3352,"date":"2016-12-05T15:22:42","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T15:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/?p=3352"},"modified":"2016-12-05T15:22:42","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T15:22:42","slug":"king-arthur-writers-round-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/king-arthur-writers-round-table\/","title":{"rendered":"King Arthur & the Writers of the Round Table"},"content":{"rendered":"

Who was Arthur<\/strong> of the Britons? Was he a king, a war-leader, a saint? Did he fight at Badon, and did he die at Camlann? There is, of course, an old Yorkshire legend that King Arthur and his knights lie in enchanted sleep in a cave in the Dales, only to be awoken in time of great need. At which point, local farmers will tell them to bugger off because they’re annoying the sheep. The last meeting of the Round Table will be at Betty’s Tea Room in Harrogate. Galahad will argue that he only had a coffee and one scone, whereas Bedivere had a macaroon as well\u2026<\/p>\n

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Hello, dear listener. Today we offer you an excellent interview with award-winning curator\/editor Nicole Petit<\/strong><\/span>. Apart from other projects which we shall mention, this year Nicole took charge of a new anthology, After Avalon<\/em>, for 18thWall Productions.<\/p>\n

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And it is to that volume we spring now, with some enthusiasm, for within its post-Roman walls lie post-Arthurian tales aplenty, as Merlin explains:<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the days when Arthur\u2019s dream was dimmed, as grey embers under storm, actors from our reverie still acted. A boy ventures into decaying Broceliande with the May Hawk\u2019s daughter, both in search of fathers. Sir Gawain, bereft of his nation, rides in search of my tomb\u2014but finds a friend turned enemy. In the Britain\u2019s hour of need, the round table will be restored to defend Logres in the sky, in the London Blitz.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cMy tutor, Bleys, will take a fool\u2019s horse, and two adventurers will trace my dying steps across the world. Sir Lionel\u2019s remains will visit the remains of the Arthurian world, and the Victorians will strive to make a gentleman of Mordred. The Questing Beast will never cease to haunt Pellinore\u2019s line, no matter how far north they trend. The old witch, Morgan, will seek forgiveness. The holy lance will appear once more. And a queen who is no longer a queen will meet a knight who is no longer a knight, and both will marvel at the grave of the greatest king who served his country.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

We have resisted the temptation to explore the many hundreds of historical King Arthur trails, which is unlike us, because we really ought to hear from Nicole. Fantasy roots, curating versus editing, and Dr Who also rear their heads, so let’s get down to it…<\/p>\n

An Interview with Nicole Petit<\/h2>\n

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greydog:<\/strong><\/em> Welcome to greydogtales<\/em>, Nicole. Today we’re planning to focus on your recent work curating the post-Arthurian anthology After Avalon<\/em> – partly because we’ve just read it and if we don’t, we’ll forget what we’re doing. But we can use this opportunity to talk a bit about other stuff. Maybe you could ease us in by saying something about your fantasy roots, and how you got interested in the fantastical?<\/p>\n

Nicole:<\/strong> Hey! Great to be here! I\u2019ve been into fantasy for as long as I can remember, really. One of my earliest and fondest memories is of my mother reading Lord of the Rings to me. She did a mean Gollum impression. <\/i><\/p>\n

I willingly chose to write an essay about Tolkien\u2019s concept of the eucatasrophe in high school, so his writing has had a profound impact on me\u2014not just as a writer, but as a person.<\/i><\/p>\n

I also got into Brian Jacques\u2019 Redwall series as a kid. I also developed a love of mythological creatures, like the White Stag and the Questing Beast and Reynard the Fox, which is something I brought with me into university when I wrote a story bible for a video game involving the three as playable characters. I got an award for that when I graduated, much to the confusion of my very Literary Fiction focused Creative Writing major.<\/i><\/p>\n

greydog:<\/strong> <\/em>Your current incarnation is as a curator\/editor. You’re a staunch dragon enthusiast \u2013 you’ve curated two collections, From the Dragon Lord’s Library 1 and 2<\/em>, and written The Dragon Lord’s Secretary<\/em>. Tell us a little about the last one \u2013 was that your first major piece of fiction?<\/p>\n

Nicole:<\/strong> I\u2019m definitely a dragon fan, no hiding that! <\/i><\/p>\n

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Yes, The Dragon Lord\u2019s Secretary is my first real finished story. It\u2019s a smaller part of a larger series that I\u2019ve been worldbuilding for years. James Bojaciuk approached me in our college writer\u2019s group, having seen a portion of an entirely different story set in this same world, and asked for more of the setting.<\/i><\/p>\n

To be honest, I decided to give him a story with dragons as a personal challenge. He\u2019d told me that he hated dragons, never seen a good story with them in it. To cut a long story short, he loves them now.<\/i><\/p>\n

greydog:<\/strong><\/em> You also put together the recent Just So Stories<\/em> anthology, a tribute to and reflection on Rudyard Kipling’s<\/strong> original Just So tales. How time learned to be bedtime, why gravity holds us so tight, why ducks have such silly voices and more. In the anthology you included some genuine Kipling, is that right?<\/p>\n

Nicole:<\/strong> That\u2019s right! The Kipling stories we included are ones you don\u2019t typically find in the prints of Just So, I\u2019m not quite sure why they\u2019re not included. It felt fitting to put them into the anthology that\u2019s a tribute to his work. <\/i><\/p>\n

King Arthur – Dux and Redux<\/h3>\n
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greydog:<\/strong> <\/em>Now, we must face up to the Big Man. King Arthur, Arthurus, Artor \u2013 he may not have existed. He may have been many people, bundled together to create a good story centuries later. He may have been a minor king, a leader of a small war-band or even just a particularly stubborn soldier. What would you personally like him to have been?<\/p>\n

Nicole:<\/strong> I\u2019ve always been a fan of Doctor Who\u2019s interpretation of him in Battlefield, though I don\u2019t know if I\u2019d say I really want him to be an alien. From a purely factual\/historical perspective I tend to side with the Riothamus theory.<\/i><\/p>\n

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But as far as what I\u2019d personally like, I\u2019m fond of the interpretation of him as a rebel warleader with a Viking wife just as much as I love the larger than life myth of the Once and Future King. <\/i><\/p>\n

greydog:<\/strong><\/em> Riothamus is a good one, British and Breton. Given the subject matter, it’s fitting that After Avalon<\/em> is as representative of the Arthurian legend as the historical tales, coming at the subject matter from all sides and offering multiple interpretations. The anthology is extremely varied (to its credit). Did you have to turn down many more ‘traditional’ approaches to the subject, the sort of straightforward sword and sorcery tales?<\/p>\n

Nicole:<\/strong> There were a handful of those. I do remember one went and made Arthur an Orc. I expected a lot more sword and sorcery than I got, actually. I was very surprised, and very pleased, with the wide variety of stories that were submitted. <\/i><\/p>\n

greydog:<\/strong> <\/em>We’re not really a review site, but we will pick out a couple of stories that were particularly interesting. The Knight of the Ice Moon<\/em> by Patricia S Bowne<\/strong> is effectively a medieval legend\/tale in its own right, whose equivalent might be found in period material. What attracted you to this?<\/p>\n

Nicole:<\/strong> Patricia wrote one of my absolute favo<\/i>u<\/i>rite stories in Just So Stories, \u201cThe Nidibalan,\u201d so she\u2019d already proven herself a capable author. And when I saw her submission, \u201cThe Knight of the Ice Moon,\u201d I knew I was in for something great. <\/i><\/p>\n

She has a talent for capturing the spirit of whatever I\u2019ve asked for in the guidelines, whether it be a Just So folk tale or a work of Arthurian Lit. And that\u2019s what I look for most in submissions, does this capture the spirit of the author\/genre\/time period\/general theme the anthology is paying tribute to?<\/i><\/p>\n

greydog:<\/strong><\/em> And the other was Claudia Quint’s<\/strong> Mordred, Beguiled<\/em>, enjoyable in quite a different way for its take on Mordred\/Medraut and his fate, set in Victorian times. It’s an affecting story, which reminded us that one of the key characters least covered in After Avalon<\/em> is King Arthur himself. Was his presence in the shadows only a deliberate choice?<\/p>\n

Nicole:<\/strong> My initial pitch of the concept of After Avalon was telling the stories of the aftermath of Camlann, and how Arthur\u2019s absence affected those who served or fought him. So yes, although I didn\u2019t explicitly ask for stories to keep him out (I don\u2019t want to limit an author\u2019s ability to surprise me with something I didn\u2019t know I wanted), I did want to keep his presence more to the background.<\/i><\/p>\n

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greydog:<\/strong> <\/em>What’s your own favourite piece of Arthurian literature, classic or contemporary?<\/p>\n

Nicole:<\/strong> Well I already mentioned <\/i>Battlefield, which has my favorite companion Ace referring to the legendary Excalibur as a paper knife, and a really great Morgaine played by <\/i>Jean Marsh. <\/i><\/p>\n

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It\u2019s probably terribly clich\u00e9 but my favorite classic is <\/i>Gawain and the Green Knight. It was the first Arthurian tale I ever read and Bertilak became one of my favorite characters. <\/i><\/p>\n

How to Editorate<\/h3>\n

greydog:<\/strong><\/em> You’re described as curating the anthologies with which you’ve been involved, rather than as editing them. The term curate has become far more common in the last ten years. It does have connotations of selecting and presenting fine pieces \u2013 even people like Neil Gaiman have curated. Is it editing but with a nicer hat? Or do you see a distinct difference?<\/p>\n

Nicole:<\/strong> It\u2019s definitely a different hat for me, I edit a few of the series that 18thWall has going on, Dead West being the main one at the moment, and the process is quite different. With Dead West I spend a lot more time doing the proper editing work\u2014fact checking historical references, ensuring that the characters and world stay consistent, while also providing the author with assistance whenever they hit a creative road block. <\/i><\/p>\n

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Meanwhile <\/i>when <\/i>curating, I do things a bit differently; while I do some of the editing work still I am a bit less directly hands on with the pieces and spend a lot more time seeing each submission as a piece of a larger whole. My focus is considering each submission in relation to the overarching premise of the anthology.<\/i><\/p>\n

greydog:<\/strong> <\/em>Good breakdown. Speaking of your curator role, we can’t let you go without mentioning your work on Spiritualists and Speakeasies<\/em>, the anthology due out next year, mostly because the old greydog<\/em>, John Linwood Grant, is in it – and he needs every bone he can get. Care to give us a hint about that one?<\/p>\n

Nicole:<\/strong> I can say that your story is one of my personal favo<\/i>u<\/i>rites in the collection! It\u2019s a delight seeing you toss Henry Dodgson into America\u2019s roaring twenties, with all those spiritualists and speakeasies the title implies. And more than a bit of hoodoo magic, handled in a way I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever seen hoodoo handled before.<\/i><\/p>\n

I\u2019m more than happy to shamelessly plug for both of us and ask your readers to check it out when it hits the virtual shelves.<\/i><\/p>\n

greydog:<\/strong> <\/em>We have no shame – we have lurchers to feed. We were tempted to use the word Ace somewhere in the interview \u2013 and we gave in. Perhaps you could briefly share your recent Dr Who adventure with us?<\/p>\n

Nicole:<\/strong> Lucky for you I even mentioned <\/i>Battlefield, so it sounds like this might\u2019ve been planned or something! I recently was blessed with the opportunity to go t<\/i>o<\/i> the Long Island Doctor Who convention where I, among other things, got meet Ace herself, the amazing <\/i>Sophie Aldred. It was an hono<\/i>u<\/i>r to meet her each of those three days I was there. <\/i><\/p>\n

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She was incredibly sweet, since I was cosplaying Ace most of that time we compared patches and pins and she even let me wear the famous bomber jacket. I would be lying if I said I wasn\u2019t starstruck. I also got to meet the series editor of the Seventh Doctor\u2019s run, <\/i>Andrew Cartmel, and we were able to talk writing for a while and I learned a lot from him! There are plenty of stories I could tell, but that would take up a whole other interview I think.<\/i><\/p>\n

greydog:<\/strong> <\/em>We must cover Dr Who in more detail some other time. Finally, what’s next on your own to-do list, apart from Spiritualists and Speakeasies<\/em>? Curating, writing or something entirely different?<\/p>\n

Nicole:<\/strong> Currently I\u2019m collaborating with <\/i>James Bojaciuk on a Sherlock Holmes story involving the Dragon Lord\u2019s Secretary herself, back in her younger wilder, western days caught up in a crime the master detective is trying to solve. It plays off events brought up in <\/i>The Valley of Fear. <\/i><\/p>\n

I\u2019m also in the middle of editing a series that\u2019s from the author of one of the stories in After Avalon, <\/i>Bel Nemeton, expanding upon the world and characters of that short. There are some other series coming up on my plate, but it\u2019s too early to say much.<\/i><\/p>\n

greydog:<\/strong> <\/em>Many thanks for joining us in the kennels.<\/p>\n

Nicole:<\/strong> Thanks for having me, it\u2019s been a great time!<\/i><\/p>\n

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You can find out more about King Arthur’s legacy by picking up a copy of After Avalon<\/em> now,\u00a0 from 18thWall themselves:<\/p>\n

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Or from Amazon UK or US:<\/p>\n

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Later in the week, lurcher news, supernatural book news and another very enjoyable interview, this time with the editor\/publisher of the magazine <\/strong><\/em>Turn to Ash<\/strong>….<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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