In November I did a two-ply interview with Gareth Jelley for Intermultiversal. There’s a forty-eight minute podcast, in which we talk about Spear, rhythmic hypnogogic writing (“Give me an army of eight-year old girls, and I will take over the world…”), why I love reading my reviews—what I learn from them—Angela Carter, and many other things. That’s available to listen to right now:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/interview-with-60545521
It’s the first time I’ve talked about Spear live—and so I don’t have the sound-bites down yet. (Not even close!) Enjoy hearing me sort of stumped for a bit, talking first about the rhythm of the prose, then a corpus analysis of the reviews, then the magic, the atmosphere and, finally, the story—wrapping up the tales of Parsifal, Merlin-Nimuë, Arthur-Lancelot-Guinevere, and the Grail Quest, all in 45,000 words—and what a rush it was to write.
Coming soon will be the long, written version of the interview. And when I say long I mean about 5,000 words. A meaty and wide-ranging conversation with many Deep Thinks about the right metaphors to use for the writing process, how and why I use genre, and why and what I do and don’t like about various other Arthurian retellings.
When it goes up on Intermultiversal.net I’ll link to it. Meanwhile, enjoy the audio.
Nicola Griffith 
Thank you. [I am sorry if this message may not post. But thank you anyway. I loved Hild and So Lucky and other of your books. I look forward to receiving and reading Spear.]
However. In the interview you are incorrect to say there is no wildlife on the Olympic peninsula and that all trees are conifers. There are many species such as adler, maple, madrone, and cottonwood, though maybe not where you were if you were in old growth Douglas fir? Many people are uncomfortable in such an environment, but just because you didn’t hear or see wildlife doesn’t mean it isn’t there. There are plenty of birds, for example, and I have smelled elk even when I could not see or hear them. If it was quiet, consider your presence + over a hundred inches of rainfall/year in a rainforest makes for a sound-absorbent environment.