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:* Carolyn Clare Givens www.carolyncgivens.com* Rosefire* The King’s Messenger* I’ve Got a Bad Case of Poetry* “The Four Quartets” by T.S. Eliot* Shadow of the Moon by M.M. Kaye* Seth G. Antes* 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 JonesAlso mentioned in this episode:* Jane Eyre* Shoofly Pie* Dorothy L. Sayers and Harriet Vane* Sense & Sensibility* Alfred, Lord TennysonClick to learn more about Bandersnatch Books!www.bandersnatchbooks.comSpecial Thanks to:Son of Laughter for our theme song: “Cricket in a Jar”Evelyn Warnemuende for our artworkS.D.G. Morgan for audio engineering: sdgmorgan.substack.com & bammerhab.substack.comDiana Pavlac Glyer for our namesake book, Bandersnatch This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bandersnatchbooks.substack.com