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Andrea Engle
Andrea Engle asked Jo Baker:

In "Longbourn", you wrote "from the shoulders of a giant." What did you learn from that challenge, and how has it influenced your new book?

Jo Baker Austen's economy is extraordinary (everything has weight and meaning; nothing is redundant), as is her handling of time (she does it with such confidence - compresses weeks down to a sentence, expands an afternoon to a whole chapter - like she's playing a squeezebox. ) I hope I've carried this through, to some degree, into later writing. I think the process of writing Longbourn also made me tune my ear to another writer's voice, and that's something I wanted to do in A Country Road, A Tree - echo, but not parody, the other writer's voice.
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I have not yet read A Country Road, A Tree, but I loved Longbourn. What sort of historical research do you conduct for your books?

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A Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ user asked Jo Baker:

Hello Jo! I've read Longbourn and I really like the way you portray the other side of the Bennets' household. It must have taken lots of background reading and imagination to make such a story real. I wonder how long did you take to write each of your novels? And how did you support yourself financially especially when you were just starting out?

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What is on your nightstand right now? What is your favorite genre? Do you ever read Southern fiction?

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