The author doesn’t like people who trivialize the things women enjoy. She only takes offense when people use ‘Romance’ as a derogatory term. Even though she technically writes historical fiction, her publisher’s decision to categorize her books under the romance umbrella doesn’t bother Donati. To her surprise, not only did she secure a publisher, but the first book sold well. She finally sat down to write her first novel, unaware of what would happen once she finished it, if it would sell, or whether it would sit in her drawer forever. Donati was also tempted to write adventure stories fronted by strong female characters. The people that populated her academic setting held a low opinion of fiction.īut the author had an interest in frontier stories that she couldn’t shake. But eventually, Donati’s dissertation pulled her back to Austria.Īs a young scholar, it never occurred to the author that she would write novels for a living. She left for a spell to finish her undergraduate degree. She stuck around for a year to teach grade school. Initially, a stint at a teacher’s college took the author to Austria. Eventually, her interest in the subject reached a fever pitch, driving her to pursue linguistics in graduate school. She remembers moving to Austria and realizing that people in Switzerland spoke a variety of German, which differed from the German people saw in books.Īdditionally, Donati noticed the discrimination that language created.
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