Jamaican Witches w/ Ciannon Smart
Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2021
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
One trip and one story can change your life, as author Ciannon Smart showed us in this episode. Listen to how her trip to Rose Hall in Jamaica stuck with her for a decade, how she embraced her weird kid energy to learn about vampires and witches, and how it evolved into her debut novel!
Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of slavery, murder, religious persecution, military/war, racism, and panic attacks.
Guest
Of Jamaican heritage, Ciannon Smart grew up in a small town in the south-east of England. As the only daughter in a house full of boisterous sons, she developed a voracious appetite for reading from an early age, preferring anarchy in stories rather than real life. In YA she loves her heroines exactly as she loves her villains: wilful, wily, and unpredictable. When not writing, Ciannon can be found reading, painting, or taking the long way home to listen to a good song more than once. Her debut novel, Witches Steeped in Gold, is now available.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Spirits Podcast, a boozy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore. |
| 0:04.3 | Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world. |
| 0:07.5 | I'm Amanda. |
| 0:08.1 | And I'm Julia. |
| 0:09.0 | And this is episode 30, Jamaican Witches with Shannon Smart. |
| 0:12.5 | Oh, Shannon was such a delight to have on the show. |
| 0:15.2 | I really like having, like, debuting authors on the show because we just get to nerd out with them. And I feel like |
| 0:22.8 | they're as excited to be here as we are excited to have them. Absolutely. We cover so much about |
| 0:29.4 | Jamaican folklore, about English folklore, about the process of writing and making a novel and |
| 0:34.3 | putting it out to the world for the first time. And Shannon is just a delightful person. |
| 0:38.7 | You're definitely going to want to pick up her book. So as always, you can find links to her websites and |
| 0:42.8 | social and where you can pick up her new book, her debut novel, which is steeped in gold in the |
| 0:47.5 | description. Yep, pick it up. Pick it up. It's so good. I really, really loved it. Speaking of |
| 0:51.5 | really, really loving books, Julia, what have you been reading, watching and listening |
| 0:54.2 | to this week that I also can pick up? |
| 0:56.5 | So, Amanda, I took a little vacation, you know, last week and had a great time. |
| 1:02.2 | And one of my favorite things to do while I'm away is just like lay out on a blanket and read a book, |
| 1:07.6 | because obviously. |
| 1:09.1 | And one of my favorite authors, Becky Chambers, just put out a |
| 1:13.4 | brand new book called The Galaxy and the Ground Within. You have heard me rant about how much I love |
| 1:19.0 | the long way to a small angry planet and all of her Wayfarer series books. And this is the |
| 1:23.5 | final book in the series. And it was very very sweet and it left me feeling very melancholy |
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