Deirdre and Maria of the Mount Kisco Library, and Mary of the North Castle Library, speak with acclaimed author Megan Whalen Turner. Megan talks about her creative process, how she names her characters, how she constructs her plots, and why she will not answer questions about her books. She reveals why her characters never take her by surprise -- she expects them to be inconsistent, like real people, and does not assume that she knows everything about them. WARNING this interview does contain some spoilers for Megan's first three "Queen's Thief" books.

Many thanks to Megan for this wonderful interview!

We would also like to thank The Illiad for our opening song, and Cursor Miner for our closing song. The song illustrating the Thief's name is "Hey Eugene," from the album of the same name by Pink Martini.

The "Sounis" community referred to in the podcast is here: http://community.livejournal.com/sounis

You can find out more about Megan and her books at her web site, http://home.att.net/~mwturner/, as well as in the next episode of this podcast.