![]() ![]() In fact, she wasn't sure that what she was working on would ever be seen at all, but a strong compulsion drove her. And I just had a real interest in frontier stories."ĭonati didn't know that she was writing a novel. "I was in an academic setting where such things are frowned upon," says Donati. This is part of the vibrancy Donati brings to her writing: while the author knows she lives in a small hamlet in the modern Pacific Northwest, there seems to be a part of her that's adventuring off in another century on a different coast and it's all as alive for her as she makes it for the readers who devour her books.ĭonati did not set out to write immense historical novels that are occasionally labeled as "romance." In fact, Donati was a professor of linguistics when she was hit with the notion to tell a story where women featured prominently in adventurous roles. For example, when speaking about the third book in the series - the one she's writing now - Donati says, "Now they're home again and all the adventure comes from the political intrigue of the time." It's now, not yesterday. As though she's talking about another country rather than another time. When she speaks of it, the North American 18th century where the characters of her Into the Wilderness saga are based seems almost alive and current. Sometimes, when Sara Donati talks about the distant past - the historical past - it's as though she's talking about something fresh and new and intimately familiar to her. ![]()
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