36: Carve the Mark – Show Notes
1st Segment
- The Fates
- The Moirai
- Ancient Greek deities
- Clotho the Spinner
- Lachesis the Apportioner
- Atropos the Inevitable
- Greek interpretation
- Clotho the maiden
- Lachesis the matron
- Atropos the crone
- Roman interpretation
- They all crones
- Zeus was the only being to sometimes thwart the fate
- The Moirai
- The Oracle of Delphi
- Served as a holy site for 2000 years
- Worship started in 1600 BCE
- Apollo and the Python
- The fissure
- The Pythia
- Gave mostly cryptic prophecies
- Nero
- Croesus
2nd Segment
- The Rise of Veronica Roth
- Wrote Divergent her Senior year
- Sold Divergent her Senior year
- Film rights sold to Summit Entertainment
- Sold during the peak of Hunger Games
- Divergent Debuted at No 6
- Insurgent Debuted at No 1
- Allegiant Was the Most Pre Ordered Book Ever Issued by Harper Collins
- Movies Have Grossed $743 Million
- 30 Million Copies Have Sold of the Divergent Series
- In 2015 Roth was 95 of the Forbes Celebrity 100
- The Worlds 3rd Highest Earning Author
- Behind James Patterson and John Green
- Had the Idea for Carve the Mark Since Writing Divergent
- Romania’s Priorities
- Inspired by Friends with Endometriosis
- Made Cyra a more important character
- Listens to Music to Get in the Zone
- Harper: A Tale for Divergent and Star Wars Fans
- Stats
3rd Segment:
- YA Expectations
- Ideas vs Execution
- Inconsistencies in the Plot
- Pronunciation of Names
- World Building in Science Fiction
- The Characters and Their Relationships