Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy will be interviewing Catherynne Valente, so if anyone has any questions they’d like us to ask her, feel free to suggest them.
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I'm not actually Derren Brown says
Well, in addition to all of your other questions you could ask her to name a few “do”s and “don’t”s of writing a decent sex scene. What the main difficulties and trappings are, show vs. tell, how to handle POV, etc.
Also, since her use of language is so masterful, could you ask her to maybe comment a bit on the relationship between the “literary” and the “genre” categories of (science-)fiction? There seems to be a certain blurring of those going on these days…