interview with Allison Pataki in CHIRB!
Briefly interrupting the steady stream of #read99women recommendations with an interview I didn’t want to lose in the shuffle! I got to ask the delightful Allison Pataki five questions on the occasion of the release of her new novel THE QUEEN’S FORTUNE, and her answers are just wonderful.
One of my favorite lines: “As a writer you want your reader to experience the action of history and the plot up close and in real-time, rather than through a character’s game of telephone. So that can affect the pacing and the narrative at times. Ultimately, isn’t that part of why we love reading historical fiction—because it allows us to enter firsthand into these most compelling and jaw-dropping of historical moments?”