Ep 09: Jennifer Meinking | Mythology Vs Alternate History

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Written By Chris Well
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Author Jennifer Meinking is a doggedly determined mom with an overactive imagination, a thirst for adventure, and a life that is rarely boring. She writes the Loki of Midgard books, a historical fantasy series which follows Loki on Earth during the Roaring Twenties, featuring adventure and clean romance.

In this interview, Jennifer and I discuss…

  • the nature of alternate history stories

  • how her version of Loki compares to other iterations of the mythological character

  • and the crazy number of spinoffs she has planned.

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Chris Well

Chris Well been a writer pretty much his entire life. (Well, since his childhood.) Over the years, he has worked in newspapers, magazines, radio, and books. He now is the chief of the website Monster Complex, celebrating monster stories in lit and pop culture. He also writes horror comedy fiction that embraces Universal Monsters, 1960s sitcoms, 1980s action movies, and the X-Files.

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