Tuesday, April 7, 2020

#146 Inside the Emotion of Fiction MEDICIS DAUGHTER by Sophie Perinot


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****Sophie Perinot’s Medicis Daughter is #146 in the never-ending series called INSIDE THE EMOTION OF FICTION where the Chris Rice Cooper Blog (CRC) focuses on one specific excerpt from a fiction genre and how that fiction writer wrote that specific excerpt.  All INSIDE THE EMOTION OF FICTION links are at the end of this piece


Name of fiction work? And where there other names you considered that you would like to share with us? Today I am going to talk about my novel, Médicis Daughter. First off an admission, I have many talents but creating titles is not one of them!
I always offer my agent Jacques des Spoelberch (Below Right) and editor a list of possible titles (often relying on writer friends who have critique partnered a particular manuscript to help me come up with this list because—again—bad at titles) and they are free to pick from the list or make up a brand new title—as long as I don’t affirmatively hate it.

I also understand, at this point in my career, that titles are part of MARKETING a book. So it doesn’t matter how much you love your working title . . . if it is hard to spell or remember, too similar to another title, etc., out it must go.
In the case of Médicis Daughter when the book first released a lot of folks wrote to scold me that there was an apostrophe missing.  They thought the title was meant to be possessive—as if it was Sophie’s coffee. But that was not my intention. It is meant to be like Viking Warrior or Tudor Queen. The word Médicis is descriptive, that’s why where is no apostrophe.
Fiction genre?  Ex science fiction, short story, fantasy novella, romance, drama, crime, plays, flash fiction, historical, comedy, movie script, screenplay, etc.  And how many pages long? Like all my books to date, Médicis Daughter is Historical Fiction. I don’t believe historical fiction is at all antiquated—in fact I like to say I write stories set against the past exploring issues and feelings so essentially human that they transcend any particular era. At 358 pages in paperback Médicis Daughter is neither my longest nor my shortest work.
Specifically, Médicis Daughter takes readers to the intrigue-riven French Valois court (16th century), spinning the tale of beautiful princess Marguerite who walked the knife edge between the demands of her serpentine mother, Catherine de Médicis, and those of her own conscience during the French Wars of Religion.


Has this been published? And it is totally fine if the answer is no.   If yes, what publisher and what publication date? Medicis Daughter was initially published in hardcover by Thomas Dunne/St. Martins Press in 2015.
It has since come out in paperback (with Unsignolo Press). It was my second solo novel to be published (I also participate in a writers group that produces collaborative novels).



What is the date you began writing this piece of fiction and the date when you completely finished the piece of fiction? I’d be lying if I said I remember. I know it was not the manuscript that took the least time—that prize goes to The Sister Queens which took nine months from putting the first words down to signing my publication contract with NAL/Berkley. Historical Fiction takes time—and much of that time is pre-writing because so very much research is involved. 
Where did you do most of your writing for this fiction work? Please describe in detail. I can and have written just about everywhere you can imagine. Some parts of my earliest books were composed on a laptop balanced on the steering wheel of my car while I waited for carpool to start at my son’s school. Once I wrote an entire chapter using my thumbs on my iphone on an airplane because the seatbelt sign was on and I couldn’t get my laptop out of the overhead. 
In the case of Médicis Daughter and most of my novels, however, a majority of the writing and editing work takes place in my office. I have a gorgeous space over my garage with windows and skylights and views into the woods. An old, thread worn, oriental rug covers the floor and there so many books—not just on my bookshelf but piled on the floor around my desk—most of which are related to the research for my work or are the novels of fellow author friends. And I have a really special seat—a gift from my husband—it’s a Cathedra (which is to say a chair that used to belong to a Bishop, in this case from a church in Baltimore). You can see a picture of my desk (in a relatively clean state) below.
I share my space with my dogs. One of whom likes to curl up and watch me write and the other of whom likes to drop spitting dog toys in my lap while I am writing.
What were your writing habits while writing this work—did you drink something as you wrote, listen to music, write in pen and paper, directly on laptop; specific time of day? I was an attorney with a large law firm before I became a novelist, so I tend to approach work in a routine and organized manner. I try to work full days my desk, with a break for lunch and in the old days (before my kids could all drive) school pick up. I get dressed to work—not fancy, but no PJs or yoga pants either. I’ve found that if I want to be productive I have to treat my writing like a business not a hobby, and for me that means regular habits and clothing I could wear in public. 
How to Treat Your Writing Like a Six Figure Business
by Tal Valante (Above Right) 
          I write directly on my laptop—or at least I have since my first novel, The Sister Queens. That novel was a strange exception: I dictated the entire thing on a hand-held mini-recorder and then transcribed it into my laptop editing as I went.


While writing Médicis Daughter I didn’t listen to music. Generally I don’t, but again there is always an exception that proves the rule—for one of my not-yet-published manuscripts I did have a playlist and I listened to it in a loop during the entire drafting process.
     I am a cappuccino person in the morning and I am a “Sparkling Ice” water addict (think 64 ounces a day minimum).

What excerpt of the book was the most emotional for you to write? The hardest scenes in Médicis Daughter were set during the bloody and horrible St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre in Paris—an appalling act of inhumanity in which thousands perished. Although it was part of the Wars of Religion and largely a slaughter of Protestants by Catholics—some individuals used it as an excuse to settle personal grudges and even murder family members with whom they had contested inheritances. Children and babies were not spared. Many victims were thrown into the river and at some places you could cross the Seine on the bodies of the dead without wetting your feet.

Writing a number of the scenes surrounding and related to the massacre brought me to tears.  I will share a short portion of one:

We move into the road in a tight pack.  We could not pass otherwise.  The Rue Saint-Honoré is a broad thoroughfare, but it is greatly constricted by bodies, many of them, after so many hours, stripped naked.  Yet pickpockets and scavengers have not given up hope of finding something of value.  They look up at the sound of our horses’ hooves, and scurry off like rats at the sight of the Swiss Guard.
A small child in his night shift lies at the side of the road just ahead.  His hand is within a hair’s breadth of a woman, doubtless his mother who was equally unable to save him or to retain his hand in death.  I cannot take my eyes off those hands.  Even as we pass, my head turns over my shoulder to see the pair of them.  The effort of holding back my tears is physically painful.  My chest burns.  My stomach is hollow.  I glance at Henriette but she is looking straight ahead.
What monsters we are.
I try to keep my eyes from returning to the road, looking at the back of the King’s head, at the cloudless sky, at anything but the fallen—anything but the fallen or the large ceremonial cross carried by one of the priests.  God has no place in this moment.  Of this I am certain.
©Sophie Perinot, all rights reserved.

Why is this excerpt emotional for you to write? And can you describe your own emotional experience of writing this specific scene/excerpt? Man’s inhumanity to man—which seems to endure and infect every age of human history—has always both left me at a loss and challenged me as a person.
          This was true from the moment I first witnessed it in the simplest ways as a child (right) (think playground bullies), through my studies as an undergraduate history major and as a law student, up to the present moment.  I believe preparing for who we will be when tested—when confronted with evil and offered a chance to act in response at our own peril—is life’s greatest work. That the only things we have even a hope of controlling in life is who we become and whether we develop a core moral sense and conscience.
          I don’t think there is anything easy about this.  Fear is a mighty thing.  And there are always counterbalances to consider—I might risk my life for one set of principles but not, for example, the lives of my children.
          One of the facts that kept haunting me from my research into the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre was that Catholic children threw Protestant babies into the Seine river when told to do so by their parents. Imagine that. It is no coincidence then that the dedication to Médicis Daughter reads as follows:
To E, K and C,
Never let any person’s will supplant your own, nor anyone’s advice override the dictates of your conscience. Not even mine.
Were there any deletions from this excerpt that you can share with us? And can you please include a photo of your marked up rough drafts of this excerpts. I do not believe this excerpt changed significantly from its first incarnation—some punctuation was added I know that for certain. The more emotional a scene the more likely that it percolated inside me until my POV character’s voice was so strong and so sure that it simply had to be written down.
Unlike many writers, I tend to first-draft very slowly. Each day I re-read the words written the day before and edit them before moving on. As a result most of my first drafts could be handed off to my agent without embarrassment.
Additionally, since I never print my manuscripts for editing—doing everything in my word document—I don’t have prior drafts to show or share.

Other works you have published. In addition to Médicis Daughter, I have published

The Sister Queens (NAL/Berkley): this novel delves into the complicated and compelling bond between sisters—in this case Marguerite and Eleanor of Provence, 13th century queens of the competing kingdoms of France and England.
A Day of Fire (Knight Media, LLC): this novel is the first true collaborative novel in the Historical Fiction genre and I was one of 6 authors working on the project. Set in the last days, hours and minute of Pompeii it tells the stories of a wide cross section of the city’s citizens as Vesuvius erupted, destroying the city.
Ribbons of Scarlet (William Morrow): another collaborative work, this novel offers a gutsy and sometimes gritty telling of the French Revolution from the female perspective.
Anything you would like to add? I love connecting with readers. Please visit my website www.sophieperinot.com and look for me on Twitter as @Lit_Gal, on Instagram (sophieperinot) and on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/sophie.perinot.autho/
          Remember if you have authors you love the best thing you can do to support them is leave a review! Word of mouth is still the most powerful tool in selling books and authors only get to keep publishing/writing books if they can sell them.
Sophie Perinot is an award-winning, multi-published author of stories set against the past exploring issues and feelings so essentially human that they transcend any particular era.
Sophie holds both a Bachelor’s in History and a law degree. With three books set in France, Sophie has a passion for French history that began more than thirty years ago when she first explored the storied châteaux of the Loire Valley. She lives in the Washington DC metropolitan area with her husband, children and a small menagerie of pets. (Left: Sophie Perinot at the Baltimore Festival of Books in November of 2019)

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