Interview with Kathryn Magendie
Since you couldn't come to my book club, I thought I would share some of my interview with Kat Magendie about her writing process. (from Kat's website -- her fancy "author" photo) So here are her answers to questions I posed. Meri: How did Virginia Kate and the other characters come to you? Kat: I knew I wanted to write about a girl or woman whose mother had given up her children, in which the girl and her siblings would have to leave their home and live elsewhere, but I wasn't sure of the details. As with all my characters, I just had a wavery image of a girl or woman who was entreating me with her dark sad eyes. As for the name Virginia Kate, it is a combination of both of my mothers' names (Ruth Virginia and Katherine Sue), not because they are like the characters Rebekha and Katie Ivene, but because I wanted to honor the sacrifices of both of my mothers. As to the rest, one day I was staring at a print of Chambered Nautilus by Andrew Wyeth. Th...