Beatriz is stopping by Writer’s Corner to talk Summer and the drive of the 1930s
Thank you Beatriz for stopping by. Beatriz just got back from the National Romance Writer’s Conference which was in Atlanta Georgia this year. What draws you to write historical fiction? History has always fascinated me, and particularly the human aspects of history. I remember when I first visited England and stood on the site of Anne Boleyn’s scaffold in the Tower of London, I felt this extraordinary exhilaration at the idea that I was standing in that very spot, that I was looking at the exact same stones and walls she had: that the two of us, who were separated by an almost unimaginable distance of time and culture and multitudes of people living and dying, had met for this instant on a common ground. Every single historical event, large and small, was enacted by fellow human beings who breathed and felt and ate and drank, and before it became a written chronicle it was a present reality and then a living memory. So it isn’t just history that compels me, it’s the vi
