You are born in the 800’s. A time when, you are forbidden to exercise your brain through academic study because you were born female.  A time where it is considered a fact, that the size of a woman’s brain is inversely proportional to the size of her uterus. Living in a society that promotes the guarantee of childbearing, an expected female act, in the multiples, if the female brain remains underdeveloped. Imagine yourself growing up a girl with an indescribable desire to acquire knowledge. You want to read, to write and to think for yourself. 

What would you do under these circumstances? 

Well if you were born Joan, you’d take the place of your newly dead brother John and enter a monk monastery, where knowledge is revered.  You’d learn languages, the work of great thinkers and the study of healing your kind. You are smart and thirsty and therefore, would be so adept and great that you would easily climb the ladder of monk hierarchy swiftly until you became… the new Pope!

This book is a great story of a little girl who becomes a man to follow her dream of learning. 

I had the great privilege of chatting with the author about her book Pope Joan, her writing habits, the writing of the script Pope Joan for the upcoming movie Pope Joan and her future heroine in the 1700’s France.

Expect to see a new book of hers soon and the Pope Joan movie in theaters in two years.

Pope Joan Website: www.popejoan.com