INTERVIEWS
DDOCAST (EPISODE 246) - Interviewed by Sig Trent
DDOcast: The Shard Axe was sort of an action/detective story in a noir tradition. Will Skein of Shadows be along the same lines?
Marcy: It's probably more of a traditional quest kind of novel, but you know I don't really write traditional kinds of novels, so it will have some twists. Listen to more...
DDOCAST (EPISODE 233) - Interviewed by Sig Trent
DDOcast: You really dig into dwarven culture in Eberron...dwarves in fantasy have an almost entirely masculine aspect...was that something you had in mind as you were writing?
Marcy: I wanted to write strong characters, male or female. I do like to try to present strong female characters whenever I can...and I thought, 'Who is going to be stronger than a female dwarf?' Listen to more...
DDOCAST (EPISODE 205) - Interviewed by Sig Trent
DDOcast: Is there some advantage to writing tie-in fiction?
Marcy: A lot of people think writing tie-in fiction is easier because "all the work's already been done," but that is SO not the case. Your job [is] that much harder because you can't just make up whatever you want anymore. Listen to more...
MASSIVELY - Interviewed by Rubi Bayer
Massively: Can you give us an outline of the plot of The Shard Axe?
Marcy: The Shard Axe is, broadly, the story of a Sentinel Marshal -- someone who has received the highest honor House Deneith can bestow -- who earned that coveted title by failing at the most important task she ever had, and what she does in the wake of both that triumph and that failure. Read more...
MANIA - Interviewed by Pat Ferrara
Mania: In your own words what is Legacy of Wolves about?
Marcy: On the surface, it's a murder mystery. People are dying in the Thranish city of Aruldusk, and my inquisitive - a dwarf named Greddark d'Kundarak - is hired to figure out who is doing the killing, and why. But the novel's tagline is "We are all forged in the fires of our past," and it's also about the legacies our families leave us, how we can either choose to be defined by the past, or to break free of it, and what happens when we do, because it's never as easy to walk away from our history as we think it's going to be, and sometimes that history doesn't want to be left behind and comes looking for us. Read more...
WIZARDS OF THE COAST - Interviewed by Mark Sehestedt
Wizards: What were the biggest influences on you as a writer?
Marcy: All the usual suspects -- Tolkien, Howard, Lieber, Bradbury. But some newer voices, too, like Stephen R. Donaldson and Guy Gavriel Kay. And some you wouldn't necessarily expect, like the Bronte sisters and Thomas Wolfe. And then there are the myriad Newbery Award winners I grew up reading -- L'Engle, Alexander, Speare, Paterson. A good book stays with you long after you've put it back on the shelf, and there are stories I read over twenty years ago that still affect me today. That's the sort of legacy (no pun intended) I hope to leave with my own writing. Read more...