Ask the Author: Planaria Price
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Planaria Price
My inspiration comes always from the outside world. When something marvelous falls in my lap, like Barbara's story; when my ESL students needed to learn language at the same time as American culture so I wrote books for them...........................My imagination is such that I can only write non-fiction but hopefully it reads like fiction.
Planaria Price
For me, the best thing is that I can share my ideas and research with "the world". It's my infinitesimal contribution to this earth.
Planaria Price
I don't have writer's block as much as life getting constantly in the way. Unfortunately, because of "my life" writing is always at the bottom of my schedule and as a writer (at least me) needs quiet unbroken spaces of time; which I rarely have, my working on my next two books in progress is severely, sadly hampered.
Planaria Price
Sitting a bar in Nepenthe, Big Sur, in 2006, I started talking to the woman next to me. Helen Reichmann West told me her mother's incredibly unique Holocaust survival story and 3 months later I flew from LA to Washington DC to interview 90 year old Barbara Reichmann. Her memory was crystal clear, her charm, intelligence and spunk radiated. After 5 days of interviews I flew home to write the first draft, sent it to Helen and Barbara and went back a few months later for more interviews and accuracy checks. I chose to write it for YA because knowledge of the Holocaust is waning or questioned, and this must never, ever be forgotten.
Planaria Price
a YA travel memoir of the '60's before the internet and cell phones.....what a concept!
Planaria Price
don't quit your day job........and never give up. It took me 87 agent rejections and agent #88 took me straight to Farrar Straus Giroux
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