Writing, characterization, plot, historical research – everything. My favourite queer romance author is K.J. What authors of either (or both!) have influenced and inspired you? Your novel includes elements of political fantasy and queer romance. I’m actually writing the sequel right now! I don’t want to say too much, but the story picks up soon after the events of A Strange and Stubborn Endurance, and addresses some of the wider implications of Vel and Cae’s marriage, as well as exploring how they work together. Will you return to the setting of this book in future work, or is it a standalone? But once he meets Caethari and slowly begins to trust him, there are other things to contend with: an unknown faction is set on ending the alliance, and the two men have to trust each other to survive. Because of this, the story starts out in a dark place, with Vel struggling to reconcile what’s happened to him with his forthcoming marriage, but emotionally, his trajectory is one of healing. But when an assault at the hands of his former lover leads to Vel being outed (though the rape isn’t recognized as such by those who witness it), the Tithenai envoy proposes an alternative solution: for Vel to marry Caethari instead. When Vel is offered a diplomatic betrothal to Cae’s younger sister, though shocked and unhappy, he’s prepared to go through with it for duty’s sake.
In Ralia, Vel has had to conceal his queerness, whereas in Tithena, Cae has grown up in a culture of acceptance. The protagonists of A Strange and Stubborn Endurance, Velasin and Caethari, are noblemen from neighbouring but very different countries. Tell us about your newest novel, A Strange and Stubborn Endurance: the world where it takes place, and the characters who inhabit that world.
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