The Song of the Lioness

I think most people do.

I remember getting really inspired to write because I was obsessed with the Tamara Pierce, like the Song of the Lioness series with like Alana, who's this medieval girl who wants to be a knight.

And so she dresses up as a boy and she pretends to be her twin brother and and goes through knighthood.

And I was reading that at like 11.

What is the book or series that shaped you and your love of fantasy? It's okay if it's more than one.

Probably Tamora Pierce, Song of the Lioness.

Finally.

Do you know how long I've been sitting in this chair waiting for someone to say that to me? I loved that so much.

I know which one it is and I write about it actually in the book.

The Song of the Lioness was my favorite children's book.

And I think it was a lot to do with a girl who was, first of all, the main character of the book, which I didn't get a lot of in school.

I obviously didn't read this book for school.

... about right now.

Uh, but my sister is reading the, uh, Tamora Pierce, uh, Song of the Lioness quartet books to my niece right now, and these, this is a series that she and I loved as kids, and so this is a real, like we're, we're forcing [laughs] my niece to enjoy these.

The premise is it's this young girl who lives in this medieval fantasy world where women can't be knights, and so she disguises herself as a boy, and she goes to knight school and has to train to be a knight alongside all of these boys and trick them the entire time.

She also has magic powers and, like, eventually learns how to use them as well.

Totally.

Yeah.

Whereas, like, I can totally picture the Song of the Lioness where I'm playing as Alanna, and I'm having to do-

Mm-hmm