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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