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Kate Heartfield is the author of The Embroidered Book, a Sunday Times bestselling historical fantasy novel published in 2022, which was shortlisted for the Ottawa Book Award. The Valkyrie, published in 2023, is a retelling of Norse and Germanic legends. The Tapestry of Time, published in 2024, is about four clairvoyant sisters fighting the Nazis for control of the Bayeux Tapestry in 1944. Her Alice Payne time travel novellas were published in 2018 and 2019. Her debut novel Armed in Her Fashion (2018) was re-published in a revised edition in 2023 as The Chatelaine. She also writes interactive fiction, including The Road to Canterbury, and The Magician's Workshop, published by Choice of Games. She has published two Assassin's Creed tie-in nov ...more

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Kate Heartfield I've been meaning to read Everfair by Nisi Shawl for what seems like forever. This Census-taker by China Mieville is on the bedside table, and The Dar…moreI've been meaning to read Everfair by Nisi Shawl for what seems like forever. This Census-taker by China Mieville is on the bedside table, and The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu, and The Just City by Jo Walton. The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin. Bonhomme Sept Heures by Evan May.(less)
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I wrote it as an entry in a flash-fiction contest in a writers' group. The prompt was "make a cruel action into a kindness, or vice versa." For some reason, I thought about people who don't make space for others on buses, and thought about how I could turn a person claiming a seat with their backpack into a secretly kind action.

On a deeper level, it hearkens back to my own teenagehood, when I used to take buses through rural Manitoba and northern Ontario, and a long Greyhound bus ride I took from Winnipeg to Houston when I was 17. That was a whole education in a few days! I was thinking more generally about the ways in which women and girls get away from their lives when they need to, how they find safety or freedom. And I suppose I was thinking about the ways that we use our outward appearance to signal our identities to each other and the world, the meanings of a t-shirt or a hair colour, and how for some people those can be a kind of language telling you where you're safe and where you aren't.(less)
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Over the last decade, depending what projects were in drafts or edits in a given year, I’ve bounced from century to century, often overlapping (in the last year, for example, I’ve worked in the 19th century for Assassin’s Creed, in the 5th century for The Valkyrie, and the 20th century for the forthcoming novel, plus a bit of short fiction in the 16th century, plus some research in other periods f

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“The world is on fire, and they argue about the temperature of the flames.”
Kate Heartfield, The Embroidered Book

“Claude wanted to say: I will be a man still; I will be a man-at-arms again.”
Kate Heartfield, Armed in Her Fashion

“Claude’s smiled dropped. “A very long time. Since I was a child. I have never—never been a woman.”
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