I wrote the first few chapters years ago, over the course of a week, and then set them aside because I didn’t quite know where they were going.

How long did it take to draft the book?.

Concocting all the merchants and cooking up things like the moth cocoon and the Toothdancer was just plain fun. I didn’t have to worry about where any of them came from or what to do with them, I could just have fun with the imagery. The goblin market, I could just go hog wild and write all these weird characters in that didn’t have to follow the rules of the rest of the book. Normally in a fantasy novel, the weird things happen one at a time and you have to fit them into the plot. I really enjoyed writing the goblin market scene.

Which scene was your favorite to write and why?.

I mean well, I worry a lot, I am always slightly overwhelmed, and all my skills are very highly specialized.

Which of the characters are you the most similar to in Nettle & Bone?.

It all started with a very short story called “Godmother” which fell somewhere between flash fiction and poetry, and which started with the line, “You came to me in your cloak of nettles, with the dog made of bone at your side.” I liked the story, but I kept wanting to know more about it, and eventually I sat down to figure out who the woman was who’d built her own dog out of bones and all the rest.

How did you come up with the story of Nettle & Bone?.

What Moves the Dead: Goodreads Awards, Best Horror (2022).An Interview with Ursula Vernon, author of Nettle & Bone!.

Nettle & Bone: Goodreads Awards, Best Fantasy (2022).

British Fantasy Award, Best Horror Novel (the August Derleth Award) (2021). The Hollow Places: Goodreads Awards, Best Horror (2020).Minor Mage: Hugo Award, Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book (2020).British Fantasy Award, Best Horror Novel (the August Derleth Award) (2020). The Twisted Ones: Goodreads Awards, Best Horror (2019).The Rose MacGregor Drinking and Admiration Society: Hugo Award, Best Short Story (2019).Summer in Orcus: Hugo Award, Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book (2018).Jackalope Wives: World Fantasy Award, Short Fiction (2015).Kingfisher were also nominated for these awards: Metal Like Blood in the Dark won the Hugo Award, Best Short Story, in 2021. A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking won the Hugo Award, Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book, in 2021 as well as the Mythopoeic Award - Fantasy Award for Children's Literature in 2021. Kingfisher's books have won multiple awards, The Twisted Ones won the RUSA Awards, Horror Award, in 2020. There are no upcoming standalone novels by T. The most recently released novel was A House With Good Bones which was released in 2023. The first standalone was released in 2014 with the novel The Seventh Bride. Kingfisher (Ursula Vernon) is probably best known for her Standalone Novels. Kingfisher (Ursula Vernon) was born on May 28th, 1977 and is currently 45 years old.

Nine Goblins by T. Kingfisher