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S4:E9 - Carolyn Clare Givens & Rosefire
Rachel S. Donahue interviews her friend and colleague Carolyn Clare Givens (author of Rosefire and The King’s Messenger). In this discussion, Carolyn shares the multiple roots of her career as an author and the many origin points of each of her stories. Every author tends to be inspired differently, and Carolyn describes how poetry, shoofly pie, music, and classroom settings all variously sparked little ideas that grew into big stories, and eventually found paper and an illustrated cover along their path to your hands as a reader!
Mentioned in this episode:
* Rosefire
* I’ve Got a Bad Case of Poetry
* “The Four Quartets” by T.S. Eliot
* Shadow of the Moon by M.M. Kaye
* Through a Screen Darkly by Jeffrey Overstreet
* “The Great One” - Son of Laughter
* “On His Blindness” by John Milton
* Notes from the Tilt-A-Whirl by N.D. Wilson
* The Plantagenets by Dan Jones
Also mentioned in this episode:
* Dorothy L. Sayers and
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