An excerpt from Paul Dimond’s in-depth interview with Jorie from Jorie Loves a Story: Conversations with the Bookish, June 8, 2017.

Jorie asks, “What uplifts your spirit the most when you are not researching or writing novels?”

An excerpt from Paul Dimond’s in-depth interview with Jorie from Jorie Loves a Story: Conversations with the Bookish, June 8, 2017.

Jorie asks, “Did anything surprise you as you were writing The Belle of Two Arbors?”

An excerpt from Paul Dimond’s in-depth interview with Jorie from Jorie Loves a Story: Conversations with the Bookish, June 8, 2017.

Jorie asks, “Was there anything in your research you were unable to broach inside the novel? How did you pick and choose what to highlight and use as you wrote the novel?”

An excerpt from Paul Dimond’s in-depth interview with Jorie from Jorie Loves a Story: Conversations with the Bookish, June 8, 2017.

Jorie asks, “Given the timeline of Belle’s story, how did you approach bridging her independent ideals and her fortitude against moments in history where women were challenged the most for having an independent mind? What did you want reader's to take away most by Belle’s example?”

An excerpt from Paul Dimond’s in-depth interview with Jorie from Jorie Loves a Story: Conversations with the Bookish, June 8, 2017.

Jorie asks, “The landscape inside the novel is of little outside knowledge to those who neither have visited Michigan nor contemplated visiting the state. How did you want to entreat readers to understand the landscape as a part of the cultural heritage of the area being discussed? How did you make it feel as tangible as you did, as a living presence of where someone ‘could have’ lived?”