Creative Magic

42: Joanne Harris - Writing Magic


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Joanne Harris (OBE, FRSL) is the internationally renowned and award-winning author of over twenty novels, plus novellas, cookbooks, scripts, short stories, libretti, lyrics, articles, and a self-help book for writers, TEN THINGS ABOUT WRITING. In 2000, her 1999 novel CHOCOLAT was adapted to the screen, starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp. She holds honorary doctorates from the Universities of Sheffield and Huddersfield, is an honorary Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

She performs in a live music and storytelling show with the #Storytime Band.

She also has a form of synaesthesia which enables her to smell colours. Red, she says, smells of chocolate.


www.joanne-harris.co.uk/


Author image credit - Kyte Photography


We talked about

  • The film adaptations of Chocolat that didn’t happen
  • Her cover artwork
  • Developing her voice as a writer
  • The different forms of magic in her books
  • On discovering magical realism
  • Imposter syndrome
  • Writing and motherhood
  • How she writes
  • Food as a love language
  • Moving beyond the archetype of the white male writer and the assumptions that go along with that.
  • Belonging and being an outsider
  • Her advice for writers


In the extended episode just $3 on www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce we talked about:

  • Her great-grandmother who was a witch
  • Cosy books, current book trends in fantasy and armchair murder mysteries and reading for comfort in a world gone mad
  • How she researches her books
  • Her current creative rabbit hole
  • Plus some of her thoughts on magic from her most recent books – The Moonlight Market, Chocolat and Vianne.


Resources

Chocolat (book)

Chocolat (film)

The Five Love Languages

The Moonlight Market

Vianne

10 Things About Writing


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