They used cutting edge machinery and the latest science but she uses a more hands-on approach. The woman took a different approach to winemaking as compared to her male counterparts. The documentary interviewed a famous wine maker that sold her wine for hundreds of dollars a bottle. Luanne got her idea for “The Vine Witch” when she was watching a winemaking documentary from France. She loves the piercingly sharp effect, the double entendres and the play of language that makes for excellent dialogue. She also loves the whimsical and wonderful stories of Neil Gaiman and the Shakespearean plays for their cleverness with description and word choice. Smith believes Gabaldon is the best at creating some of the most intriguing circumstances for her characters. While working as an adult she was still reading a lot and asserted that she was most influenced by the masterful storytelling of Diana Gabaldon. While she never did lose her love for writing and books, once she graduated from college she ended up doing all manner of jobs and only came back to writing when she had her first child. It was while he was in high school that she discovered her love for languages and began writing short fiction and poetry as she was seriously considering becoming an author. Luanne has always loved writing stories and when she was a child she would write poems and short stories in her diary all the time. When she is not writing, she loves to hike, garden, read and relax with a glass of wine. This perhaps explains why she made her lead character Elena a slimy toad, as she wanted to get her quirky expertise out of her head. She would then go on to work as a naturalist at a state park in Colorado where she had to work with painted turtles, bull snakes, and woodhouse toads among other reptiles. She later went on to college and she graduated with a bachelor’s in Resource and Environment Management.

She has asserted that it was reading Jean Craighead George’s “My Side of the Mountain” as a ten-year-old that got her hooked to reading and writing stories.

Smith has said that she is lucky to live in the beautiful Rocky Mountains of Colorado, from where she writes her novels. Her second novel “The Glamourist” is the second novel in the Vine Witch series. She wrote “The Vine Witch,” a fantasy novel about revenge, witches, and wine set in France during the early years of the 20th century. Want to support the show? Buy me a book via Amazon or Bookshop.Luanne G Smith is an American novelist best known for writing historical and fantasy fiction. A SPOILER FREE review of ' The Raven Spell(Conspiracy of Magic #1) by Luanne G SmithĬan this Victorian era murder mystery featuring a witchy magical seasoning turn into a page turning thriller or is the concept ill executed leaving us wanting to fly far away from the pages?įIND LINKS TO ALL THE IMPORTANT WAYS TO JOIN THE STORYPHORIA COMMUNITY AT:

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