The writer and producer Heather Christie discusses the collection she’s edited LoveNotes! Real Stories. Real People. Real Love. (71st Street Books, 2024), with Joseph Planta.

LoveNotes! Real Stories. Real People. Real Love. edited by Heather Christie (71st Street Books, 2024). Click to buy this book from Amazon.ca: LoveNotes!

Text of the introduction by Joseph Planta:

I am Planta: On the Line, in Vancouver, British Columbia, at TheCommentary.ca.

Heather Christie joins me now. The writer, producer and educator has recently published LoveNotes! Real Stories. Real People. Real Love. It’s a terrific collection of stories she sought from those seeking love, finding love, losing love, and experiencing love at various points in one’s life. Heather has raised two daughters, divorced, and experienced dating disappointment. She sought these stories and presented them in the live storytelling event LoveNotes!, which debuted in 2024 and sold out Off-Broadway, and expanded elsewhere. I’ll ask Heather if she gleaned any wisdom from the stories presented in the show and in this book. The book is hardly an instruction manual, as not everything works for everybody. For example, you’ll read stories about love at first sight, and there are a number of examples in the book. But there are also stories where people who’ve known each other for a while, even disliked one another, and yet eventually find there’s something between them. There are prompts and puzzles between the stories that make for breaks in the collection that also get the reader involved. You can write down your own thoughts, and or draw. I’ll ask Heather about the upcoming podcast that will involve LoveNotes! Heather Christie is the award-winning author of the Young Adult novels What the Valley Knows, and The Lying Season, and the producer/director of the storytelling show Listen to Your Mother NYC. Visit www.HeatherChristieBooks.com for more. The book is published by 71^st Street Books. We spoke in February, with Heather joining me from New York City. Please welcome to the Planta: On the Line program, Heather Christie; Ms. Christie, good morning.

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