Marji - What inspired you to
become a writer?
Mary - I started out wanting to
be an artist, but everything I drew was characters from a story. So around
Junior High, with the encouragement of some teachers, I began to write the
stories. God had a hand in this. I don't have the discipline to create the
level of art required to be successful in that field, but I still use my
artist's "eye" in the graphic designs I make for our books and
videos.
Marji - What is your ultimate
goal for writing in general?
Mary - The primary goal in the
writing both my husband and I do is demonstrate the authority of the Word of
God. Both in fiction and non-fiction, that's our overall purpose. Know the
Word, believe the Word, know the Lord Who wrote it.
Marji - How does The Baron of
Larcondale satisfy that goal?
Mary - The story has some
parallels to the lives of Jacob and Esau in the Bible. Tristan and Dunstan are
princes. Dunstan is the older, favored son of a father who is blind to his
faults. Tristan is trapped in a situation he can't change until God removes
him, then prepares him to come back and make right what his brother has
corrupted.
Marji - What inspired this
particular story?
Mary -Partly Jacob's story, as I
mentioned, and partly the idea that a person may be good, and right with God
himself, but still not prepared to do the work God has for him. Tristan goes
through some very hard times to get him ready to come back to his kingdom when
it needs him the most.
Marji - Okay, I'm a visual
person and this is a question I ask over and over because I love having a face
in mind when I read. What actors might play your main characters if they made a
movie of this?
Mary - For Tristan, I love Hugh
Jackman and Robert Downey Junior. Mayra, the female lead, is very young,
between thirteen and sixteen for most of the story, so I honestly don't know
any actresses that young who could play her.
Marji - What's a lasting line
from your novel - like the "Frankly, my dear ..." from Gone with the
Wind, or "You had me at hello."
Mary - This is a line that Mayra
says about Tristan. I can't tell you the circumstances without giving away a
big part of the story, but here it is. “My prince is ready to make me his
princess, now. I’ve helped him see, just as I promised. Just as I always will.”
Marji - How does writing fit in
to your everyday life?
Mary - I write off and on ever
day. Traveling while my husband drives, I help with the trip paperwork, load
finding and other work chores, but in between I network, edit, write and refine
our work.
She's also shared a snippet from
The Baron of Larcondale.
"Do not continue to oppose me,
prince," Shneea warned. "This man you have loved since childhood will
die here, and he will only be the first."
"I have no choice but to
oppose you," Tristan said. "You feed off innocent men's flesh."
"You will submit," Shneea
said. "You and I shall wed, or I will destroy you without touching your
body. Prince Tristan will cease to exist."
"How can you do such a
thing?" Tristan was baffled.
"Do not tempt me to show
you," Shneea said. "Marry me, handsome prince."
"It's impossible,"
Tristan gritted. "You have a husband, and I have a wife."
"My husband will be dead
almost any moment," Shneea laughed. "But you have got yourself a
wife, have you? The marriage will be annulled."
"I have no desire to be rid of my wife, nor to
wed you."
Mary C. Findley is 54 years old, married 32 years, 3 20-something children, traveling in a tractor trailer with her husband through all the 48 connected states full-time.
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