Hello Maria Grazia. Thank
you for your warm welcome. I’ve been looking forward to this day! To answer
your first question, I have to go back to Mrs. Malm’s English literature class
in junior high school. I was in the ninth grade when we read Pride and
Prejudice. I was an avid novel reader by that time, but—if memory serves me
well—it took me several years to appreciate her genius and become a true Janeite.
Congratulations on the release of Celestial Persuasion. Did you discover something relevant about the characters in Jane Austen’s Persuasion while writing your book?
Indeed, I did, but it actually started when I was writing my previous novel, The Meyersons of Meryton and it had to do more with the setting, than the characters themselves. I had to come up with a grand idea on how to discipline Mr. Wickham—that devious blackguard! What I discovered not only provided me with creative alternative to transportation to Australia, it opened my eyes to some history I would have naturally learned—had I been educated in my native land of Argentina.
