The Worm Hole Podcast Charlie Place

Charlie and Ronali Collings (Love & Other Dramas) discuss her relationship with her mother and where that influences her novel, racist comments and decisions in the workplace, and her experiences of female friendships during her IVF journey. We begin with her studies for a Masters - her supervisor was Bernardine Evaristo.
The Madeline Milburn Mentorship Programme
Ronali's interview on The Two Of Us
Ronali's episode on Chloe Timms' Confessions Of A Debut Novelist
Where to find Ronali online
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You can contact the show at books@carnelianvalley.com
Discussions
01:19 On Ronali's MA for which she was supervised by Bernadine Evaristo
06:18 On the inspirations and reasons for writing Love & Other Dramas
13:10 The characters
20:11 Stephen!
22:55 The importance of Tanya remaining single at the end
27:06 Ronali's relationship with her mother and the influence on Helen and Tanya
33:46 Catholicism in Ronali's life and in the book
39:11 The micro-aggressions related to racism
43:06 Priya and Bianca's relationship
46:16 Discussing female friendships - Ronali discusses the absence of them in parts of her life and we then go on to discuss friendship in the context of her IVF treatments
56:38 What's next?
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Charlie and Kristina McMorris (Sold On A Monday; The Ways We Hide) discuss the harrowing photographs of children that inspired her last two novels, why she chose to focus - in the first book - on the news reporters rather than the children, and changing the fictional outcome of the stories.
The photograph of the children for sale and an article with the basics
Kristina's Facebook post about her and RaeAnn's appearance on NPR
Interview with RaeAnn for North West Indiana Times
Interview with David McDaniel
Christina Baker Kline's Orphan Train
The first sentence on Sold On A Monday ended up being: 'Outside the guarded entrance, reporters circled like a pack of wolves.'
(The photograph that inspired The Ways We Hide is a photograph of some of the children who died in the Italian Hall Disaster and shows them laid out after death.)
"How Monopoly Helped The Allies Win WW2" article
The videos of the various MI9 tools are listed on Kristina's website
Where to find Kristina online
Website
Twitter
Facebook
Instagram
You can contact the show at books@carnelianvalley.com
Discussions
01:21 Tell us about the photograph Sold On A Monday was inspired by
06:09 Changing the outcome for the fictional children
07:40 The book's focus on the reporters rather than the children
11:11 How Kristina's experience in media informed her writing
13:41 About the original title
17:55 The reliability of the characters
19:10 Ellis and Lily
22:33 Theme of family and motherhood
23:45 The photograph that inspired The Ways We Hide
27:17Fenna!
28:25 The four books Kristina is currently working on
32:29 Kristina introduces the extra content on her website

Charlie and Orlando Ortega-Medina (The Fitful Sleep Of Immigrants) discuss the reality for LGBT asylum seekers in the US, Orlando's own experiences as a lawyer, and same-sex marriage rights now Roe v Wade has been overturned.
Orlando's law firm
Authority Magazine video
"How Do We Master Our Ego?" an discussion with Rabbi Joseph Dweck for J-TV
Where to find Orlando online
Website
Twitter
Facebook
Instagram
TikTok
You can contact the show at books@carnelianvalley.com
Discussions
01:33 Orlando's career as a lawyer and his own firm
03:55 How Orlando might have changed his plans for his career if he'd been able to write part time and be a lawyer part time
05:38 Creating the characters
09:08 Issac and the situation in El Salvador in the late 1990s at the time
11:22 The court hearing
15:08 Alejandro Silva!
23:11 The original version of the book
26:18 The Saint Cloud case and realities
28:06 On the same-sex marriage rights of LGBT people in the US now that Roe v Wade has been overturned
32:04 The passage about darkness and light in the context of people
34:19 Mitzpe Ramon and Orlando's use of it in his work
Photograph credit: Marte Lundby Rekaa

Charlie and Amita Parikh (The Circus Train) discuss how Amita's dancing and performing experiences influenced her work, her controversial decision to have her wheelchair-using heroine learn to walk, and the Theresienstadt Ghetto (concentration camp) where prisoners led a fairly cultured life.
'Ten Fun Facts About The Circus Train' on Amita's website
The Night Ferry
Elizabeth Kenny
The Theresienstadt Ghetto
Information and links about #PublishingPaidMe
Where to find Amita online
Website
You can contact the show at books@carnelianvalley.com
Discussions
01:20 The inspiration behind the characters and the theme of illusion
04:29 The circus itself and Amita's dancing experience
07:01 Real travelling circuses of the time
08:53 Getting the balance between magic and reality
09:22 The original drafts
11:47 Back to the train aspect
13:37 The decision to have Lena learning to walk and the historical medical context for it
18:35 The Theresienstadt Ghetto
22:20 Horace!
26:31 About another book Amita has written (not published), her reaction to getting an agent, and her upcoming second book
Photograph credit: Helen Tansey

Charlie and Emma Cowell (One Last Letter From Greece) discuss grief, miscarriage and expectations surrounding it, and, in keeping with her book's title, Greece and its culture.
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Methoni
Cadgwith
Petalidi
Emma's Links:
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You can contact the show at books@carnelianvalley.com
Discussions and Readings
01:30 First reading
03:56 Emma's mum
07:49 The how, when, and so forth of Emma writing One Last Letter From Greece
11:42 Emma's inclusion of Greece in the book
14:44 Second reading
18:09 All about Sophie
24:38 Discussion of friendship, miscarriage and fertility
31:32 Theo!
33:25 Emma's angling experience and its influence
35:04 Art and the art world
39:00 The paranormal elements
42:27 Lindsay and Grigor what ifs
49:36 Emma's next book, The House In The Olive Grove
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She's back! Charlie and E C Fremantle (The Honey And The Sting) discuss producing a book that is utterly devoid - and then some - of filler, Black people of the Stuart era, and the film of Fremantle's first novel, which will star Jude Law and Alicia Vikander.
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The Honey And The Sting
George Villiers
Frances Coke
John Felton
Eleanor Davies
Miranda Kaufmann's Black Tudors
Pearl diver Jacques Francis
The Poison Bed
Robert Carr
The painting of Anne of Denmark
Firebrand
Artemisia Gentileschi
You can contact the show at books@carnelianvalley.com
Question Index
00:40 [Asking Liz about her writing choices in terms of the stripped-back style of her book]
05:43 [Reading]
13:08 Could you talk more about the creation of the sisters themselves?
16:31 Is this book moving towards the fantasy genre?
17:21 Can you talk about the bees, honey, this concept?
19:08 George Villiers - can you talk about how you included the story and why you made the choices you did?
23:45 Were James I and George Villiers lovers, in your opinion?
26:58 Can you talk about your decision to use Francis Bacon's work in your book?
28:16 Can you talk more about your research of Black people of the era and their inclusion in your book?
31:55 Your first novel has now been made into a film (called Firebrand; in post-production). What can you tell us about it at this point?
34:10 Can you tell us about your next book, Disobedient?
Photograph used with the permission of the author. Credit: JP Masclet.