oh wow, how absolutely perfect!! Also, THANK YOU for being a teacher in the past. Middle school is a hard age to teach, but as a mom I know how important those years are!
The whole interview was absolutely lovely, but that part was very sweet for me to hear, personally! Thanks for saying that! It is a hard age for so many reasons, but I always loved teaching while witnessing the quirky-caught-in-the-middle-weirdness of it all! 💜
I love your origin stories. Your approach gives moments of connection to people and access into stories we wouldn’t otherwise get to experience, it’s a pulling back the curtain set of moments. Thank you!
Aww thank you, Nicole! I think it’s so important to be able to see these successful authors as real people on a path where they were beginners at one point, too. It makes their careers feel real and attainable and inspirational, rather than mythical and out of reach. I am so happy you enjoy the interviews!
That was a WOW. Okay--yes, as a Duran Duran fan (and also a bit of a middle school outcast), of course I love the origin story....BUT...Here's what I really loved.
This interview was so cathartic. I have spent the last several years apologizing for my writing as in: Well, I'll never be Wallace Stegner or Julian Barnes--(translation: a literary great )--but listening to your interview with Katherine it was if the proverbial light bulb finally went on--as in....STOP apologizing for your own work--pursue what you love; write as yourself--the only thing you need to be is who you are. You wanna write love stories with happy endings? Write 'em. You wanna write cozy mysteries? Go ahead...You want to write a tragic love story--that's fine too.....
I wish I could pick up the phone and call her and talk and talk and talk some more. Thank you so much for bringing Katherine into my life.
This makes me a little weepy (in a happy way). I SO understand this feeling of thinking we need to be brooding and "literary" in order to be serious writers. But the only kind of writing we can do well is the kind that comes from who we truly are. Katherine's perspective is so NOURISHING, isn't it? I'm really glad these interviews keep finding you when you need to hear them, Diana!
Oh my goodness, as a former middle school teacher, I could not have loved that sixth-grade writing origin story any more than I did! 😍🥹
oh wow, how absolutely perfect!! Also, THANK YOU for being a teacher in the past. Middle school is a hard age to teach, but as a mom I know how important those years are!
The whole interview was absolutely lovely, but that part was very sweet for me to hear, personally! Thanks for saying that! It is a hard age for so many reasons, but I always loved teaching while witnessing the quirky-caught-in-the-middle-weirdness of it all! 💜
I love your origin stories. Your approach gives moments of connection to people and access into stories we wouldn’t otherwise get to experience, it’s a pulling back the curtain set of moments. Thank you!
Aww thank you, Nicole! I think it’s so important to be able to see these successful authors as real people on a path where they were beginners at one point, too. It makes their careers feel real and attainable and inspirational, rather than mythical and out of reach. I am so happy you enjoy the interviews!
That was a WOW. Okay--yes, as a Duran Duran fan (and also a bit of a middle school outcast), of course I love the origin story....BUT...Here's what I really loved.
This interview was so cathartic. I have spent the last several years apologizing for my writing as in: Well, I'll never be Wallace Stegner or Julian Barnes--(translation: a literary great )--but listening to your interview with Katherine it was if the proverbial light bulb finally went on--as in....STOP apologizing for your own work--pursue what you love; write as yourself--the only thing you need to be is who you are. You wanna write love stories with happy endings? Write 'em. You wanna write cozy mysteries? Go ahead...You want to write a tragic love story--that's fine too.....
I wish I could pick up the phone and call her and talk and talk and talk some more. Thank you so much for bringing Katherine into my life.
This makes me a little weepy (in a happy way). I SO understand this feeling of thinking we need to be brooding and "literary" in order to be serious writers. But the only kind of writing we can do well is the kind that comes from who we truly are. Katherine's perspective is so NOURISHING, isn't it? I'm really glad these interviews keep finding you when you need to hear them, Diana!
The interview made me a little weepy-also in a very good way!
I can’t wait to read The Love Haters!
Hooray!!
I’ve inadvertently watched one of Katherine’s film adaptations. Look forward to reading her books someday. 🫶🏻
Haha that’s so funny!