Sasha has returned to the ranks and not a moment too soon. For we chat about the further adventures of Iris Wildthyme whom Brooke & Skip met last month in a short story by Paul Magrs. Now she gets the novel-length treatment with The Scarlet Empress.

Color us impressed by this tale of storytelling and confabulation. It's surreal, magical, and perhaps not all that it seems. (Sasha has some good adjectives about it, as you'll hear.)