I sense people expect something to show for ten years. But I do feel like it is dense. Some of my own favorite books are slim, but there's a lot of weight and power in them. — Danielle Dutton Copy Share Image
I suppose also that watching marketing and publicity stuff play out from behind the scenes, making those plans and seeing each piece fall into place or not, each year, for each book, has made me a little more tranquil about… — Danielle Dutton Copy Share Image
As a publisher what you are trying to build is a long life for a book, to help it find its readers in many… — Danielle Dutton Copy Share Image
Back then, when I had that original idea to write about the seventeenth century, the whole thing was set in 1666. I was thinking… — Danielle Dutton Copy Share Image
I loved reading historical novels when I was young, but I definitely don't think I wrote one. When I read my book through, when… — Danielle Dutton Copy Share Image
I'm not entirely sure what a historical novel absolutely has to be, but you don't want a reader who loves a very traditional historical… — Danielle Dutton Copy Share Image
But when I realized it was actually going to be this portrait of the artist, birth to death, I had to then discover who… — Danielle Dutton Copy Share Image
I was obsessed with the scientific instruments people were building and all the weird experiments they were doing. I did actually wind up working… — Danielle Dutton Copy Share Image
Finding the form was really a very dynamic process. I went through a lot of shifting, trying to get it right. Because the writing… — Danielle Dutton Copy Share Image
I'm not sure running the press has changed how I write (though perhaps it has in ways I can't see), but it has certainly… — Danielle Dutton Copy Share Image
I was trying to focus on Margaret's trajectory as an artist, as a woman and an artist. Hopefully Cavendish experts won't be angry at… — Danielle Dutton Copy Share Image
The reason the middle section switches to third person is, well, this is middle age. This is the part in her life where she… — Danielle Dutton Copy Share Image
Margaret Cavendish was one of the people who came up in the course. That was when I started thinking about her as a character… — Danielle Dutton Copy Share Image
I was sad to see some of them go. Like a magic lantern that would project images on walls and people would travel the… — Danielle Dutton Copy Share Image
