Dec 20 2019 47 mins
Tune in as Charlie Place and Samantha Sotto (Before Ever After; Love and Gravity; A Dream of Trees) discuss characters that join you in your car in the midst of a traffic jam, time travelling with Issac Newton, switching from your fully researched work in progress to a story that needs to be told, and... chickens?
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The trailer for Love and Gravity as mentioned
Question Index
00:37 The story of how Sam became a writer involves traffic jams…
02:57 Did anything inspire the chicken and egg situation?
04:58 You’ve gone for lesser-known historical stories in Before Ever After, can you tell us about that?
07:41 Is there a secret ingredient for the egg and cheese dish?
08:57 Where does Doctor Who come into the story?
10:53 How was it working from the present day backwards?
12:15 Was there any particular time period you enjoyed working on?
14:40 Where did the campers first come into the story?
15:32 Where did Shelley first come into the story?
21:45 When did you have the idea to fill in the gap in Issac Newton’s story?
23:43 Where did John Maynard Keynes come in?
25:40 Issac Newton and Andrea are both motherless – was this comparison something you were working towards?
27:24 What was it like mixing science and music together in one book?
29:50 Daughter’s name being included in the book
32:13 Are your dogs [heard in the background] going to star in a book?
32:49 Do you like classical poetry?
34:29 Have you ever owned any chickens?
38:06 Why self-publish A Dream of Trees?
41:17 Is the content something you have/have developed a passion for?
44:11 Will you be returning to the Scotland fairy story book?
45:26 Sam’s recent NaNoWriMo book.
Purchase Links
Before Ever After:
Amazon UK
Amazon US
Amazon Canada
Hive
Book Depository
Love And Gravity:
Amazon UK
Amazon US
Amazon Canada
A Dream Of Trees:
Amazon UK
Amazon US
Amazon Canada
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Photograph used with permission from the author. Credit: Samantha Sotto.