Paullina Simons talks how her life shaped her writing, The Bronze Horseman, her new book The Bell and the Blade, and why she writes 'love in loveless times'
[00:43] - Paullina on finding Luke
[02:21] - Paullina’s early life
[05:34] - How Paullina’s love of stories began
[07:35] - Paullina’s earliest literary loves: The Three Musketeers, Les Miserables, the Count of Monte Cristo
[12:22] - Paullina’s first story
[15:15] - Why Paullina is drawn to writing about hardship and resilience
[17:13] - Victor Frankl’s ‘Man’s Search for Meaning’
[18:48] - The Bronze Horseman
[25:00] - The Bell and the Blade
[33:22] - What is Paullina’s favourite out of everything she’s written?
[35:38] - what Advice would Paullina give to an aspiring writer?
[36:21] - East of Eden by John Steinbeck
[39:35] - Paullina’s Good Book
[40:45] - Ordinary People by Judith Guest
[41:06] - Shopgirl by Steve Martin
[41:50] - Paullina’s relationship to fantasy
[42:49] - The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
[43:07] - The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
[44:38] - What’s next?
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