Mar 11, 2024
Charlie and Kristy Woodson Harvey (The Summer Of Songbirds) discuss whether we should like her character, Lanier (who stops her best friend and brother being together); the various plot threads she left out of the book (including alternative endings); and US summer camps (both Kristy's experiences, and the effect of the pandemic lockdowns). We also spend a good amount of time discussing the pre-actor's-strike announcement of an adaptation of Kristy's Peachtree Bluff series and her next two books.
Kristy's The Wedding Veil
Kristy's Christmas In Peachtree
Bluff
Friends & Fiction
Kristy's interview with Susan M
Boyer
The announcement about the Peachtree
Bluff adaptation on Kristy's website
Where to find Kristy online
Website || Twitter || Facebook || Instagram
Where to find Charlie online
Website || Twitter || Instagram
Discussions
02:14 The inspiration: a sailing trip at a
summer camp Kristy went to with her family during the pandemic
06:49 So Lanier and Rich came first?...
08:02 How Kristy doesn't write in chronological
order and how it ends up working well
12:01 How Kristy feels about Lanier
15:35 Why was important to write about Daphne's
family and the problems there are there?
19:21 Why no narrator for Mary Stuart?
25:39 This book was originally longer (what got
cut)
29:24 Kristy's childhood experiences of US summer
camps
33:52 Why Kristy ends her book with a scene about
Daphne, Lanier, and Mary Stuart's children going to camp
34:51 Real camps that had to close due to the
lockdowns
36:24 The concept of 'hard things'
40:27 Other endings Kristy had in mind for The
Summer Of Songbirds
44:43 A sequel?
48:18 The on-hold Peachtree Bluff adaptation
52:16 What's next (A Happier Life, and and very,
very brief peak at Kristy's 2025 book)