Candlewick was their first choice, but the publisher initially passed-and then, months later, in a twist worthy of the theater, Candlewick’s Katie Cunningham called. Simonoff helped trim the manuscript from what Love called an “insanely long” 45 pages and put together a proposal. “The dovetailing couldn’t have been more snug,” Love says. Parker’s agent showed Love’s book to another agent, Meredith Kaffel Simonoff, and a match was made. In her Broadway debut, The Snow Geese, she became friends with Mary-Louise Parker, who, it turned out, was working on a book of her own. Love considered self-publishing, then decided to see if anyone in her theater network could connect her with an agent. “If I got hit by a bus, a book would be there the next day,” she says, adding that once she had the idea of Julián’s story, “I knew I had to finish it and put it out into the world.” And even as she avidly pursued an acting career, the idea of creating something that endured beyond a performance or production captivated her. Love, the child of artist parents, had always had one foot in the visual arts and the other in theater: she studied the former at UC Santa Cruz, then crossed the country to study acting at the Juilliard School. A lot of the books that fall under this topic heading tend to feel like they’re instructing people how to behave, or how to explain the situation as if it’s a problem. “And I wanted it above all to feel like a present to the people who needed it. I consider them my co-workers.“I was thinking about the way creativity and beauty can be used as a way to fashion your identity for yourself,” Love says.
The snakes still live around the building, but we respect each other, and keep our distance. The result is that every surface in my work studio was lovingly hand-made.
He built custom cabinetry, insulated the whole building, hung drywall on the ceiling and made beautiful maple plywood wall finishes, with custom paneling. Over the course of several months, Daniel transformed the place–he put in windows, did the electrical wiring, and even some ad-hoc plumbing so I could have a functioning sink. The schoolhouse was not insulated, had no running water or electricity and was the place of residence of three, 6 foot long black snakes. When we found this place it had an old barn for his woodshop, and a one room schoolhouse which we would convert into my studio. We are both artists (Daniel is a furniture maker) and had been looking for some land with buildings we could both work on for years. My fiancé and I moved to this piece of property just as the lockdown was kicking into gear.
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