![]() ![]() MB: What an intriguing, but challenging, question! I read widely in many, many genres, and each type of story contains particular elements that make it great. GBC: What makes a book great, in your opinion? What elements does a great story possess? The law never fit, and after several years, I started walking down the riskier, more authentic path of writing historical fiction about important women. But I got detoured along the way, and I became a commercial litigator in NYC for over a decade. When I headed off to college, I followed this passion and became a history major, always assuming I’d become an archaeologist or historian. I began asking myself how “history” is really fashioned, and I became fascinated with unearthing the unknown stories of women from the past. ![]() ![]() ![]() While she fed me a steady diet of phenomenal literature, it was Marion Zimmer Bradley’s The Mists of Avalon with its ground-breaking, female-centric telling of the famed Arthurian legends that really opened my eyes to the hidden world of women’s stories. Marie Benedict: Well, when I was a girl, I was fortunate to have a wonderful aunt - who also happened to be an English professor, a poet, and a rebellious nun - who was determined to expose me to the larger mysteries of the past and the different perspectives lurking in history. Girly Book Club: How did you get into writing and what inspired you to write your first book? ![]()
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