![]() ![]() I’d visited a friend’s house several times, always in winter, at the turning point of the year. ![]() After all, the first story I ever sold - “Christmas Apples,” in Realms of Fantasy, also an Evie story - was inspired by a place. Some of it is probably part of how my muse operates, since a strong sense of place is something that really sparks my imagination. So when I describe Wild Hunt and Spiral Hunt as “urban fantasy,” there’s always part of me that wonders how on earth I ended up writing anything remotely urban. When I’m on vacation, I retreat to lakes and cabins well away from civilization when I think about what got me started writing, I remember biking down flat roads with fields on either side, watching storms approach for miles. I was born in a small Indiana town, lived there for close to two decades, and went to college in an even smaller Massachusetts town. Not for author Margaret Ronald, and in this Big Idea, she explains why the city of Boston is in itself essential as the setting of her acclaimed fantasy series, of which Wild Hunt is the latest installment. When thinking about “urban fantasy,” we’re aware that the word “urban” sets the fantasy in a particular type of setting - but does that setting (and those stories) require a specific place? For the purposes of the genre, and our conversation, is one “urban” as good as another? ![]()
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