21: Crooked Kingdom – Show Notes
First Segment
- The Founding of Amsterdam
- ‘The Miracle of Amsterdam’
- The Shelf Life of HerringHerring Bus
- Rise of Dutch Merchants
- The Dutch RevoltSpanish Intolerance
- Dutch Tolerance
- The Sack of Antwerp
- Dutch East India Company
- Dutch dominance in global commerce
- The Dutch Golden Age
- The Golden Age of Amsterdam
- Financial center of the world
- Merchant Oligarchy
- Dutch Tolerance
Second Segment
- Leigh Bardugo
- Born in Jerusalem
- Lives in Los Angeles
- Formerly a makeup artist
- Sings in a band Captain Automatic
- First SeriesThe Grisha Trilogy
- Shadow and Bone (2012)
- Siege and Storm (2013)
- Ruin and Rising (2014)
- Her inspiration for the Series/WorldWhat if darkness was a place?
- Old Russian Imperial Atlas
- Crooked Kingdom Duology
- InspirationFantasy Heist!!!
- Changes from The Grisha trilogy
- Third person perspective
- 6 different character POVs
- What would happen if you brought a gun to a magic fight?
- ProcessBeat Sheet
- Acts, sequences, and structure
- Drafts that get progressively larger instead of trimmed down
- Diversity and serious issues in her books
- Human TraffickingGEMS (Girls Education and Mentoring Services)
- People of color in a fantasy world
- Future WorkWonder Woman YA novel
Interview with Lauren Fortgang
- Relationship With Authors
- Audible and contacting authors
- Leigh Bardugo’s Notes on Six of Crows
- Setting the tone
- Country analogs
- Audio Files of Pronunciations
- Meeting Leigh in Person
- Recording Before the Release
- Top secret drafts
- No spoilers!
Interview with Leigh Bardugo
- Writing Six Anti Heroes
- Multiple POV
- Not the chosen one
- Reading Chapters Out of Sequence
- The Importance of Historical Accuracy
- More leeway with European cultures
- Other historical influences
- Las Vegas, Venice, New York
- Tweaking Unbelieveable Historical Facts
- Ketterdam is the Anti-Ravka
- Economics in fantasy books
- Introverted Writers on Press Tour
- Subversive Folk Tales
- Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn‘Momcore’