The Writer's Room: Paullina Simons

In The Good Books with Luke Bateman · Feb 3, 2026 · 46m

Paullina Simons talks how her life shaped her writing, The Bronze Horseman, her new book The Bell and the Blade, and why she writes 'love in loveless times'

[00:43] - Paullina on finding Luke

[02:21] - Paullina’s early life

[05:34] - How Paullina’s love of stories began

[07:35] - Paullina’s earliest literary loves: The Three Musketeers, Les Miserables, the Count of Monte Cristo

[12:22] - Paullina’s first story

[15:15] - Why Paullina is drawn to writing about hardship and resilience

[17:13] - Victor Frankl’s ‘Man’s Search for Meaning’

[18:48] -…