Jun 14, 2021
Charlie and Christina Courtenay (Echoes Of The Runes; The Runes Of Destiny) discuss what the Vikings were really like, time travellers' historical partners travelling back with them, and predictability and coincidence as plot devices.
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Jorvick Viking Festival,
York
Birka
Question Index
00:35 You've been published for a long time;
tell us about your past work
04:52 You say in Echoes of the Runes that the
Vikings aren't quite as we think they are. Can you expand on this
for us?
06:33 What research did you do for the books?
08:40 You explore disability, with the main
character finding a way to communicate with Jorun. Why was this
important to explore?
10:27 Did you ever have any issues with getting
Haakon how you wanted him to be?
11:52 The noted predictability and coincidences
between time periods - was this something you always planned to
use?
13:30 What was behind the decision to have Destiny
of the Runes take us to another country?
15:14 Linnea takes a good number of pages to
accept she's travelled in time - what lead to this decision?
16:22 Were you always going to have the time
travel in the reverse?
22:23 Linnea's possible experience or possible
virginity in the context of the history - had you considered a
different story here?
24:09 The forthcoming Whispers of the Runes and
Tempted by the Runes - tell us about them
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Echoes Of The Runes:
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The Runes Of Destiny:
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Whispers Of The Runes:
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Tempted By The Runes:
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