Longtime readers may recognize today’s author’s name! Jennifer Lee Rossman joins our pages once again, bringing magic to Issue 050 with their story “Maiasaura Deifaeria.”
LSQ: What a perfectly lovely and quirky story! I never would have imagined a dinosaur fairy godmother! How did she first come to mind?
Jennifer: There was an anthology call for stories about fairy godmothers I wanted to write for, but I didn’t feel like I had a creative enough idea. Everything I could think of had already been done before. But since I have a bit of a reputation on Twitter for adding dinosaurs do everything (only slightly deserved, lol, I actually don’t do it as much as people think I do), I figured why not dinosaurs?
LSQ: But this story is also about relationships. Your MC was more than Asha’s fairy godmother, even if she couldn’t see it until the end. Would you say that Asha’s wish was granted? What about your MC’s?
Jennifer: Asha’s wish was granted eventually, although definitely not the way she originally intended. I think if she could read the story, she would understand why her godmother acted the way she did, and she would be satisfied with the way things turned out.