Overview

The missing interview has been found! A couple weeks back, I had Donna Conrad on, and we were missing the last half of her interview. I found it!

Donna finishes talking about her historical Mary Magdalene book and then we talk about inspiration for writers. She has been involved with many musicians, and that has been a big influence for her and her creativity. Music is something that many authors share a love for.

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https://youtu.be/asNy3WOtEIY

Transcript

We were talking music. You mentioned Joni. Mitchell's a nice person. I think that's great. I love Joni Mitchell.

I know Jocko Pistorious played with her occasionally which is wonderful. Good to hear some good Jocko baselines.

[00:02:48] Donna: Oh, hang on just one second. Yep.

Okay. I'm just not hearing. And if you can take that out because you can hear. That's been over here.

[00:02:59] Stephen: We'll make that the [00:03:00] blooper at the end and I'll amplify it.

[00:03:04] Donna: It's a microphone. You need your microphone.

[00:03:06] Stephen: Okay. You've got two completely different books. We're talking about your memoir and your historical fiction.

So for each of them, Would you rather see it as a movie or as a TV show?

[00:03:17] Donna: The, let me see so how's the one surviving the sixties. I think it would work as a movie because it is just a four year period. And it's just isolated incidents that are joined together by a common thread. And so I think movie, the last Magdalene is going to be the Magdalen Chronicles is going to be a four book series.

So I would love to see something with a series, like a Netflix series,

[00:03:46] Stephen: or

[00:03:47] Donna: that type of thing going season after season, because it, she lived for, we think, okay, At least 88, 90 years. Wow. And experienced it a lot. So she was born close [00:04:00] to the beginning of the first century, current era.

She lived through the destruction of the temple. She lived through. Not quite to the diaspora, but she lived through Paul B getting his teachings and the establishment of the early church. And that, so it was a dynamic time, her whole life. And then we also need to see into Egypt, which is the second book called lost in the holy, which is when she leaves after the crucifixion, she escapes to Egypt, to Alexandria, which was the traditional place for Hebrews to.

[00:04:34] Stephen: And the books what type of feedback are you getting from readers?

[00:04:38] Donna: The last bag Lin is not out yet. It's right now we're working on the cover. My publisher is having an artist do a rendering for the cover. So they'll all be unique and tied together. I'm really excited about that.

Taking my description Miriam for the cover. How's the moon, incredible feedback from people, how they've always wondered about the [00:05:00] sixties, how they felt one reviewer said it was like going to sleep and waking up in the trenches. A lot of people saying that it gave them the courage to be more honest about their own lives and to.

To revisit trauma because the book is, I don't want anybody to think it's a fun laugh, filled, want through the sixties. It's a very dark disturbing book because that's what the 60 is more to me as a time.