Comments on: heading out for the west coast ( with apologies to Dylan) http://www.sarahdunant.com/blog/2009/08/heading-out-for-the-west-coast-with-apologies-to-dylan/ Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:59:24 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Sarah Dunant http://www.sarahdunant.com/blog/2009/08/heading-out-for-the-west-coast-with-apologies-to-dylan/comment-page-1/#comment-1728 Sarah Dunant Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:59:33 +0000 http://www.sarahdunant.com/blog/?p=51#comment-1728 Again, this is a late reply. It came out from Nero Pozza in late November. But the title is different. Le Notte di Santa Catarina. ( hideous title, but I didn' have a say in it). The cover is good though. If you manage to read it please let me know what you think of the translation. Sarah Again, this is a late reply. It came out from Nero Pozza in late November. But the title is different. Le Notte di Santa Catarina. ( hideous title, but I didn’ have a say in it). The cover is good though. If you manage to read it please let me know what you think of the translation.

Sarah

]]> By: Sarah Dunant http://www.sarahdunant.com/blog/2009/08/heading-out-for-the-west-coast-with-apologies-to-dylan/comment-page-1/#comment-1727 Sarah Dunant Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:58:03 +0000 http://www.sarahdunant.com/blog/?p=51#comment-1727 Bonnie, It feels terrible not to have replied to this before., but the web site got clogged up with spam, and I got clogged up with life and the rest is history!. Thank you. Interestingly, I have got Stones in the River but never read it. I will take it on the plane with to Australia. You can never have too many good books on a plane. Thanks for taking the time to write. Sarah Bonnie, It feels terrible not to have replied to this before., but the web site got clogged up with spam, and I got clogged up with life and the rest is history!. Thank you. Interestingly, I have got Stones in the River but never read it. I will take it on the plane with to Australia. You can never have too many good books on a plane. Thanks for taking the time to write.

Sarah

]]> By: Sarah Dunant http://www.sarahdunant.com/blog/2009/08/heading-out-for-the-west-coast-with-apologies-to-dylan/comment-page-1/#comment-1726 Sarah Dunant Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:55:33 +0000 http://www.sarahdunant.com/blog/?p=51#comment-1726 Hi Susanne, Well as you can tell I am the world's worst web correspondent. So have only just read this!!! (Will do better. I am writing that out a hundred times) Hope it went well. Would love to hear your thoughts. Who was there? En route to Australia but I will be back in the US in April. Will post a schedule nearer the time in case anyone lives close to any of the towns visited. I would love to see or hear from you all. I remember the book club with great fondness. Hi Susanne,

Well as you can tell I am the world’s worst web correspondent. So have only just read this!!! (Will do better. I am writing that out a hundred times) Hope it went well. Would love to hear your thoughts. Who was there? En route to Australia but I will be back in the US in April. Will post a schedule nearer the time in case anyone lives close to any of the towns visited. I would love to see or hear from you all. I remember the book club with great fondness.

]]> By: Sarah Dunant http://www.sarahdunant.com/blog/2009/08/heading-out-for-the-west-coast-with-apologies-to-dylan/comment-page-1/#comment-1725 Sarah Dunant Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:52:21 +0000 http://www.sarahdunant.com/blog/?p=51#comment-1725 Not only should there be an edit feature, but I should log on more often to respond. I have made a late new year"s resolution to do just that. At the moment I am what is delicately called "resting". Which actually means I am hurtling all over the world still publicising Sacred Hearts. When that process ends this summer I am hoping the fallow field which is. at present, my mind, will have picked up some seeds along the way. For once in my life I am not fretting about it. Sometimes the best ideas come when you are absolutely not trying...... Thanks for your kind words about Birth of Venus. I hope Sacred Hearts does not disappoint. Not only should there be an edit feature, but I should log on more often to respond. I have made a late new year”s resolution to do just that.

At the moment I am what is delicately called “resting”. Which actually means I am hurtling all over the world still publicising Sacred Hearts. When that process ends this summer I am hoping the fallow field which is. at present, my mind, will have picked up some seeds along the way. For once in my life I am not fretting about it. Sometimes the best ideas come when you are absolutely not trying……
Thanks for your kind words about Birth of Venus. I hope Sacred Hearts does not disappoint.

]]> By: Sarah Dunant http://www.sarahdunant.com/blog/2009/08/heading-out-for-the-west-coast-with-apologies-to-dylan/comment-page-1/#comment-1724 Sarah Dunant Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:49:24 +0000 http://www.sarahdunant.com/blog/?p=51#comment-1724 Hi Christina. It was optioned for a couple of years by two women in LA, but they never found the development money to get it further so the option lapsed. I don't really mind. I think the best movies of books are the ones that you shoot in your own head. That way each person has their own individual film. I'll keep you posted it anything happens to change my mind! Hi Christina. It was optioned for a couple of years by two women in LA, but they never found the development money to get it further so the option lapsed. I don’t really mind. I think the best movies of books are the ones that you shoot in your own head. That way each person has their own individual film. I’ll keep you posted it anything happens to change my mind!

]]> By: Sarah Dunant http://www.sarahdunant.com/blog/2009/08/heading-out-for-the-west-coast-with-apologies-to-dylan/comment-page-1/#comment-1723 Sarah Dunant Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:47:11 +0000 http://www.sarahdunant.com/blog/?p=51#comment-1723 Hi Brandon, You're right. I am useless at u tube. Trying to get better but only so many hours in a day. I think when I first started writing I needed to structure stories quite carefully because otherwise I easily got scared that I would get lost. But the more I have written, the more I have realised that getting lost is part of the process, and sometimes you only find out what you want to write about, or who a character is by putting them in situations that you - and them - have not expected, so they start having to talk and walk for themselves. I hope this make sense. Writing is a scary business. I don't think people say that enough. So if you failing, it may be en route to succeeding. Keep going. Hi Brandon,
You’re right. I am useless at u tube. Trying to get better but only so many hours in a day.
I think when I first started writing I needed to structure stories quite carefully because otherwise I easily got scared that I would get lost. But the more I have written, the more I have realised that getting lost is part of the process, and sometimes you only find out what you want to write about, or who a character is by putting them in situations that you – and them – have not expected, so they start having to talk and walk for themselves. I hope this make sense. Writing is a scary business. I don’t think people say that enough. So if you failing, it may be en route to succeeding. Keep going.

]]> By: Amy http://www.sarahdunant.com/blog/2009/08/heading-out-for-the-west-coast-with-apologies-to-dylan/comment-page-1/#comment-1712 Amy Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:08:01 +0000 http://www.sarahdunant.com/blog/?p=51#comment-1712 I meant to say that the first book I got for my kindle is SACRED HEARTS and that I am reading Sacred Hearts BECAUSE I loved Birth of Venus. There should be an edit feature here. LOL. I meant to say that the first book I got for my kindle is SACRED HEARTS and that I am reading Sacred Hearts BECAUSE I loved Birth of Venus. There should be an edit feature here. LOL.

]]> By: Amy http://www.sarahdunant.com/blog/2009/08/heading-out-for-the-west-coast-with-apologies-to-dylan/comment-page-1/#comment-1711 Amy Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:06:44 +0000 http://www.sarahdunant.com/blog/?p=51#comment-1711 I just purchased a kindle and this is the first book I got for - I LOVED Birth of Venus. I am only on Chapter 9 and really liking it so far. What I logged onto your website for was to see if you are working on any new historical fiction right now? Please DO! I just purchased a kindle and this is the first book I got for – I LOVED Birth of Venus. I am only on Chapter 9 and really liking it so far. What I logged onto your website for was to see if you are working on any new historical fiction right now? Please DO!

]]> By: Christina http://www.sarahdunant.com/blog/2009/08/heading-out-for-the-west-coast-with-apologies-to-dylan/comment-page-1/#comment-1703 Christina Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:44:56 +0000 http://www.sarahdunant.com/blog/?p=51#comment-1703 Hi there! I just completed The Birth of Venus- has become one of my favorite books. Would so LOVE to see it made into a movie! Any news of this? :( Hi there!

I just completed The Birth of Venus- has become one of my favorite books. Would so LOVE to see it made into a movie! Any news of this? :(

]]> By: peter ryley http://www.sarahdunant.com/blog/2009/08/heading-out-for-the-west-coast-with-apologies-to-dylan/comment-page-1/#comment-1696 peter ryley Sat, 06 Feb 2010 10:24:57 +0000 http://www.sarahdunant.com/blog/?p=51#comment-1696 Hi sarah, just heard your slot on Saturday Live. Thanks for your comments on the way in which the women of an earlier era were able to create for themselves a certain space and freedom within the confines of a society where the odds were so stacked against them. I believe that this remains the paradigm for where the female psychic energy still is in the world: embattled and forced to find and operate within whatever space a male-sided world is pressured into conceding. (The difference I have from some more traditional feminist views is that for me, what matters is not whether a given individual does or does not wear a skirt [cf margaret thatcher], but whether the energy being deployed is basically promoting or denying emotional movement.) Anyone who doubts that the female side of the psyche is still incarcerated should perhaps consider the position of children in the modern world. I am sure that jesus was not kidding when he said "Of such is the kingdom of heaven', but the psychological implications of this seem largely still to escape us, even 2000 years later. So, I appreciate your reflections on the past all the more for my judging that they still have a real relevance for us contemporary people. best wishes Peter Hi sarah,
just heard your slot on Saturday Live. Thanks for your comments on the way in which the women of an earlier era were able to create for themselves a certain space and freedom within the confines of a society where the odds were so stacked against them. I believe that this remains the paradigm for where the female psychic energy still is in the world: embattled and forced to find and operate within whatever space a male-sided world is pressured into conceding. (The difference I have from some more traditional feminist views is that for me, what matters is not whether a given individual does or does not wear a skirt [cf margaret thatcher], but whether the energy being deployed is basically promoting or denying emotional movement.)

Anyone who doubts that the female side of the psyche is still incarcerated should perhaps consider the position of children in the modern world. I am sure that jesus was not kidding when he said “Of such is the kingdom of heaven’, but the psychological implications of this seem largely still to escape us, even 2000 years later. So, I appreciate your reflections on the past all the more for my judging that they still have a real relevance for us contemporary people.
best wishes
Peter

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