My post on The Magical Monarch of Mo just went up at Tor.com. This was a book I'd never read in childhood, and it let me think impossible things for awhile.
I've always loved to watch seals and sea lions playing in the water, so much so that I've figured that in some past life, I must have been a seal. Someplace in storage, I have a few stuffed seals that remind me of playfulness and water.
So I suppose it was inevitable that at some point or another, I would write a selkie story. Enjoy!