Mia V. Moss and Justine Lombardi discuss power and revenge in debut fantasies

Mia V. Moss and Justine Lombardi have compared the fantasy worlds of their debut novels in a new October 15 conversation at LGBTQ Reads. The discussion brings together Moss’s *The Heresy of Thieves* and Lombardi’s *No Man’s Daughter* around questions of feminine power, revenge and queer relationships.

Mia V. Moss and Justine Lombardi have compared the fantasy worlds of their debut novels in a new October 15 conversation at LGBTQ Reads. The discussion brings together Moss’s The Heresy of Thieves and Lombardi’s No Man’s Daughter around questions of feminine power, revenge and queer relationships. Moss explains how

character relationships changed during the long development of The Heresy of Thieves , ultimately shaping a world in which queerness is ordinary. The novel’s larger crisis begins when magic disappears, leaving rulers, religious authorities and other survivors to contest what follows. Lombardi describes a frontier

influenced by Norse paganism and Appalachian folklore, where neighbouring cultures have different attitudes to sexuality and magic. Her account of No Man’s Daughter connects those disagreements to the practical compromises people make to survive together. The exchange offers the authors’ own explanations of their

worldbuilding choices and character motivations. It is a fresh discussion of the books’ shared concerns, giving readers a route into their ideas beyond the novels’ individual release announcements. Read the original source. Image: LGBTQ Reads; official conversation graphic featuring Mia V. Moss and Justine Lombardi.

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