Dustin Spencer-L'Heureux

Dustin Spencer-L'Heureux asked Katherine Howe:

I'll admit that I have yet to read Conversion, but I am fascinated because its like the modern re-telling of the Salem Witch Trials. I did read Penguin Book of Witches and loved it. I have been fascinated with the witch hunts and trials since I was a little kid, so I curious if you ever found something out that made you feel like you should not be researching witches and witch trials? Thank you!

Katherine Howe Hi Dustin, thank you so much for reading. I have a pretty strong conviction that nothing in history should be off limits to anyone willing to put in the time to study it. Circumstances like the witch trials, which are essentially about power, deserve our attention all the more. Also witch trials are one of the few passages in history in which regular people are at the center of the drama. That's one reason you won't find me writing about kings and queens. I'm very interested in exploring stories about regular people trying to make sense of an insensible world.

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Miss Howe. My name is Mosaica and I am a full blown book-a-cholic . I read/eat a book about every three or four days. (Around age 11 my best friend and I taught ourselves how to speed read - God bless Nancy Drew. lol) Taking into account I am 64, that's a lot of books! No matter how many books I enjoy; "The Physick Book..." remains and endures on my top 10 hit parade. Might you bless us with a third?

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"The garden and the house seemed to belong to their own abandoned world so completely that the presence of any person, lively or otherwise, felt like a grave mistake." Do you think this kind of descriptive or illustrative talent can be cultivated or is it a gift one must be born with? Thanks so much! :)

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Hi Katherine! I absolutely loved The Physick Book Of Deliverance Dane. It is definitely one of the best books I have read. I felt as though I was right there in the book witnessing everything going on. I was wondering if you will ever write a sequel to it? (less)

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