Ask the Author: Kristi Saare Duarte
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Kristi Saare Duarte
Hi Stephanie, thank you so much! My husband is a photographer, so I'm lucky. His website is here: http://www.eduartephotography.com/
Hope you're doing well.
Hope you're doing well.
Kristi Saare Duarte
Hi Andrea. I'm so glad you received the book and that you liked the note. I hope you enjoy the book, too. All the best!
Kristi Saare Duarte
The days I don't feel like writing, I just write anyway, allowing myself to write something bad. The time I set aside for writing is so precious (usually one day -- Saturday or Sunday -- a week), so I don't have the option of not writing.
Kristi Saare Duarte
I'm currently working on the follow up, a novel about the life of the disciples after Jesus's death, and how they fight to keep his message alive against all odds. It's still in second draft mode, so it's a bit early yet to know exactly what it will be once I finish it.
Kristi Saare Duarte
People always ask me why I spent six years writing a book about Jesus when I'm not religious. I think the idea was always there, like a seed that sprouted into a premise, and then into research, and then words started forming on the paper (well, computer screen). I was always fascinated by the idea of how different religions came to be, and wondered if they are not -- in essence -- the same, after all? I also wondered why Christianity often portrays Jesus as divisive (against gays, against those who don't believe in Jesus, etc.), when Jesus as a man of God surely must have been loving and inclusive.
THE TRANSMIGRANT took root when I was traveling in India and found a book about Jesus spending the bulk of his life (the so called lost years) traveling in India and Asia, studying Hinduism and Buddhism. The more books I read for research, the more it made sense. Of course I'm not trying to say that I know the whole truth -- after all this is a work of fiction -- but the initial feedback I have received from experts on the subject shows that the idea at least is very plausible.
THE TRANSMIGRANT took root when I was traveling in India and found a book about Jesus spending the bulk of his life (the so called lost years) traveling in India and Asia, studying Hinduism and Buddhism. The more books I read for research, the more it made sense. Of course I'm not trying to say that I know the whole truth -- after all this is a work of fiction -- but the initial feedback I have received from experts on the subject shows that the idea at least is very plausible.
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