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What You Didn’t Hear in My Interview with Anne Mollova | S5 EP248: Book Banter

Writer: Dianne Burckhardt
Dianne Burckhardt
19 hours ago
6 min read

Behind the scenes with Anne Mollova, from her Publisher’s Choice surprise to music, special editions, merchandise, and the conversations cut from the episode.


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Hello My Happy People,


Some interviews stay focused from beginning to end. Others wander into unexpected conversations that are too much fun to stop, even when I know they will never fit into the final episode. My second interview with award-winning fantasy author Anne Mollova was definitely one of those.


Before we officially started recording, Anne was testing a new sound interface, I briefly lost my voice, and we discovered we both have verbal habits that make extra work during editing. I tend to use “so now” as a transition, while Anne catches herself saying “you know.” Anne had already learned how noticeable those habits become after recording audio commentary for one of her Kickstarter campaigns and then spending hours editing herself.


We also had a little fun with Anne’s selection for a book review in the 2026 Year-End Book Buying Guide of Book Banter Magazine, coming soon I normally use a computer program to randomly select five books for review. This year, several books I genuinely wanted to include were not selected, so I created a sixth Publisher’s Choice drawing containing all those books. Anne’s book The Maeblec’s Apprentice won that drawing.


I sadly, had to cut some of our conversation about Anne’s musical background. Anne is a classically trained violinist who has also performed Scandinavian folk music, tango, and Eastern European music. She plays with her husband, an accordionist, and has been teaching herself Celtic harp.


I told her I still think about buying another violin and returning to an instrument I played when I was younger. I actually made it to first violin in fourth grade, but we soon moved to a ranch in Benton, Kansas, where no one was giving violin lessons. I still have not bought one now because I know I do not have the needed time to really get good at it again. Anne remembered one of her professors asking what the hardest part of practicing was. Her answer was simply getting the violin out of its case. Once you begin playing, it becomes easier to continue, but setting aside everything else and starting is the real challenge. That struggle is real!


After the official interview ended, we continued talking for another fifteen minutes. Anne told me her husband was listening her book while driving from Pittsburgh to Detroit. He periodically called her to question particular sentences, becoming an unofficial proofreader from the road.


At the time of our recording in August, Anne was waiting for special-edition proof copies from BookVault in the United Kingdom. Those editions include sprayed edges, bookmarks, and other features. That led us into a discussion about merchandise inspired by the book’s many memorable quotes. I told her about using Zazzle for products that can be produced and shipped without the author handling the inventory. I still want a T-shirt with “You will be feared. All women who know things are.” on it... hint hint Anne!


We eventually wandered completely away from publishing and into travel, vegetarianism, Scotland, haggis, Bulgarian wedding food, and my husband’s continuing love of extremely large steaks. None of that made it into the episode, but those unexpected turns are often where an interview begins to feel less like a formal recording and more like a conversation between friends. This is part of the reason I love it so much when I get to chat with Anne. I LOVE her books, but she is also just a fun person to know.


Now you get to know more about her too... go listen to Season 5, Episode 248 to hear Anne discuss completing The Trianid, beginning The Moonblood Cycle, and creating the magic-filled world of The Maeblec’s Apprentice.


If you would like more background about Anne, including how she moved from her career as a musician into becoming an author, start with her first appearance on Book Banter with Dianne Burckhardt in Season 4, Episode 173.



Enjoy,

Dianne



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