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Episode 79 – 2nd Interview – Lily MacKenzie
Overview
Lily joins us again talking about her latest book - The Ripening. She tells us about her writing adventures since we last spoke to her.
Besides writing, Lily is a teacher, which has taught her quite a bit about her own writing.
Previous Episode - https://www.discoveredwordsmiths.com/2021/05/06/episode-47a-lily-mackenzie-freefall/
Latest Book
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1683132343/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1683132343&linkCode=as2&tag=saschneider-20&linkId=02d5865462618f66d9b1449f73321b4c
YouTube
https://youtu.be/SK8GGc6TGNU
Transcript
[00:02:59] Lily: things [00:03:00] going for you? Very busy. I don't know if it's I have a new novel coming out October 5th. Uh, and it's entitled the ripening, a Canadian girl grows up and it features a character named Tilly, Bishop and Tilly actually appeared in my last novel freefall, a divine comedy and the publisher had wanted me to do a sequel.
[00:03:27] Lily: And so this is, this particular narrative is about Tilly growing up. And so it ends when she's 18 years old and she starts out as this innocent growing up on the Canadian Prairie. Under the wing of a partially present mother and a Jekyll and Hyde father stepfather, I should say. And so after the family moves from the farm where her stepfather had a place, he had really bad asthma, so they had to move to the city.
[00:03:59] Lily: [00:04:00] So after they moved to the city to Calgary and give up the farm, she loses her way and she's initiated into city. And without parental guidance, she begins a downward spiral and ends up eventually with a side trip to Toronto. She ends up visually in San Francisco during the late fifties, which of course was a time of loosening, mores, major change for everybody, I think.
[00:04:29] Lily: And so I think she goes through some really rough times and, but I think the novel demonstrates that we have the power to turn our lives around. If we're heading in the wrong direction, but it usually involves a struggle and a certain amount of pain before we can set off on a better path. And so in free fall at divine comedy, we know that telly is an artist.
[00:04:52] Lily: And, and so I think it comes through in the ripening. A Canadian girl grows up [00:05:00] that Tilly is an artist in the making that she is creating herself actually. Pages she's creating herself. And that's what first form of artistry. Yeah. So I'm excited about this is my fourth published novel.
[00:05:16] Stephen: Nice. This is a sequel to the last one.
[00:05:19] Stephen: Did you find it hard or easy to continue the story to make something that use the same characters?
[00:05:27] Lily: Well, the hard part was Tilly is really zany she's, she's a very fun character. And it was part of the ripening is that while there are some seeds of the later Chile in this young Tilly there, it was more difficult to make her so zany because she's going through some really difficult things.
[00:05:51] Lily: So that was a problem when people change. Just because she is a girl isn't quite as kinky is as [00:06:00] she is as an older adult. I I'm a lot different from what I was when I was a kid. I guess there'll be allowances for that.
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Overview
Lily joins us again talking about her latest book - The Ripening. She tells us about her writing adventures since we last spoke to her.
Besides writing, Lily is a teacher, which has taught her quite a bit about her own writing.
Previous Episode - https://www.discoveredwordsmiths.com/2021/05/06/episode-47a-lily-mackenzie-freefall/
Latest Book
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1683132343/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1683132343&linkCode=as2&tag=saschneider-20&linkId=02d5865462618f66d9b1449f73321b4c
YouTube
https://youtu.be/SK8GGc6TGNU
Transcript
[00:02:59] Lily: things [00:03:00] going for you? Very busy. I don't know if it's I have a new novel coming out October 5th. Uh, and it's entitled the ripening, a Canadian girl grows up and it features a character named Tilly, Bishop and Tilly actually appeared in my last novel freefall, a divine comedy and the publisher had wanted me to do a sequel.
[00:03:27] Lily: And so this is, this particular narrative is about Tilly growing up. And so it ends when she's 18 years old and she starts out as this innocent growing up on the Canadian Prairie. Under the wing of a partially present mother and a Jekyll and Hyde father stepfather, I should say. And so after the family moves from the farm where her stepfather had a place, he had really bad asthma, so they had to move to the city.
[00:03:59] Lily: [00:04:00] So after they moved to the city to Calgary and give up the farm, she loses her way and she's initiated into city. And without parental guidance, she begins a downward spiral and ends up eventually with a side trip to Toronto. She ends up visually in San Francisco during the late fifties, which of course was a time of loosening, mores, major change for everybody, I think.
[00:04:29] Lily: And so I think she goes through some really rough times and, but I think the novel demonstrates that we have the power to turn our lives around. If we're heading in the wrong direction, but it usually involves a struggle and a certain amount of pain before we can set off on a better path. And so in free fall at divine comedy, we know that telly is an artist.
[00:04:52] Lily: And, and so I think it comes through in the ripening. A Canadian girl grows up [00:05:00] that Tilly is an artist in the making that she is creating herself actually. Pages she's creating herself. And that's what first form of artistry. Yeah. So I'm excited about this is my fourth published novel.
[00:05:16] Stephen: Nice. This is a sequel to the last one.
[00:05:19] Stephen: Did you find it hard or easy to continue the story to make something that use the same characters?
[00:05:27] Lily: Well, the hard part was Tilly is really zany she's, she's a very fun character. And it was part of the ripening is that while there are some seeds of the later Chile in this young Tilly there, it was more difficult to make her so zany because she's going through some really difficult things.
[00:05:51] Lily: So that was a problem when people change. Just because she is a girl isn't quite as kinky is as [00:06:00] she is as an older adult. I I'm a lot different from what I was when I was a kid. I guess there'll be allowances for that.