I’m just kind of like … I’m processing all of that and thinking about how it goes into something I am aware of in the book. They’re trying to keep her safe, but she’s this strong character and she won’t let herself be silenced. That’s a fascinating point that some of these men who want her to be quiet like you said, have very good reasons for that. It’s nice that we don’t have the camera on because you can’t see me with my mouth hanging open thinking. Kate DiCamillo: Well, I’m just sitting here again. So anyway, for me, this theme of the male characters telling Beatryce to be mute, but she is absolutely anything but mute. But ultimately, we know that if you don’t get to be true to yourself, it doesn’t lead to happiness or everything that’s right in the world. Some of them, for a very good reason, want her to be mute. There’s also this theme that she’s trying to be who they want her to be, which is mute. But Beatryce, inside of her, is absolutely anything but mute.
That y makes it look, along with that font, like it is from a different time.īianca Schulze: So, she lives in this medieval world, and it feels as though every male in her life, even the well-meaning ones (and there are some very well-meaning male characters and then possibly some not so well-meaning male characters in the story), they seem to suggest a lot along the way that she needs to be mute. The font that Candlewick uses for the title, you’re right that’s what it does. I almost feel like that’s how it would have been spelled at the time that she existed. And it’s nice of you to notice that.īianca Schulze: The story takes place in a medieval setting. And it was like one of those things that didn’t happen as I was sitting there working, but rather I woke up in the middle of the night and thought, oh, it needs to be a y, and I don’t know where it came from or why I was so certain that that’s the way it should be. It took me a while to figure out that that’s what needed to happen. You’re the first person that’s asked about that, and it wasn’t that way in the beginning, like for the first few drafts. I’m assuming that was a conscious choice to spell it that way? So that made complete sense to me.īianca Schulze: So, Beatryce, the main character of The Beatryce Prophecy … and by the way, I love the way Beatryce is spelled with that y at the end, the r y c e. I always feel as I’m reading-even if there’s a dark spot within the story-you can feel that there is a light at the end of the tunnel that we’re working towards. Does that make sense?īianca Schulze: Absolutely. And so as again and again, I seem to work over this thing of finding your way home I’m literally doing that as I’m telling the story, trying to find my way home with the story and with those characters.
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And as I make my way through a story, not knowing what’s going to happen, it’s that feeling of like walking down a long, dark hallway, and you can see the little white light underneath the door at the end, just that little crack of light. It’s this thing about finding your way home literally or metaphorically. So, I think you’re right that that seems to be one of my thematic preoccupations. But then I’m almost like the reader because I don’t know what will happen either. For me, I have no idea and it’s a relatively terrifying way to write. I have a lot of friends that write, and by the time they sit down and start writing, they know exactly what’s going to happen. And I’m wondering, when you started writing The Beatryce Prophecy, did you know where it was going from the moment you started writing? But your characters always go through a lot of transformation. And I just feel like that theme is often there. And I don’t necessarily just mean home as in house. It matters to me.īianca Schulze: I feel like, with a lot of your books, there’s usually the main plot between beginning and end, but I find that your main characters and even the side characters, I feel like they’re always trying to find their way home.
You’ve done everything you can do, and you just hope that the world is kind. It’s kind of like putting your kid on the school bus for the first day of school. Thank you.īefore a book comes out, you feel really vulnerable, right? There’s nothing that you can do. Kate DiCamillo: Oh, it’s so nice that you can’t see me because I haven’t combed my hair or brushed my teeth, but also because you can’t see me tearing up over that. I am beyond excited to talk to you! I am an avid reader of your stories, and I have to say that The Beatryce prophecy, I think it might be my favorite book that you’ve written.
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