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Barbara Linn Probst | 20 Questions: THE COLOR OF ICE
Author Guest / October 12, 2022

1–What is the title of your latest release? THE COLOR OF ICE   2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? Set in Iceland’s otherworldly landscape of glaciers and thermal lagoons, and framed by the magical art of glassblowing, The Color of Ice is the breathtaking story of a woman’s awakening to passion, beauty, and the redemptive power of unconditional love. And here’s a longer version if our elevator ride goes more than a floor or two: A woman’s carefully curated life is upended when she travels to Iceland to interview a charismatic glass artist who ignites a hunger in her for all the things she’s told herself she doesn’t need anymore. Passion. Vulnerability. Risk. Step by escalating step, she abandons the life she knows until she comes face-to-face with devastating choices she never could have foreseen.   3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? I’d visited Iceland a few years earlier— simply as a tourist, with no intention of setting a novel there.  But as I began to learn about glassblowing, I remembered the incredible blue icebergs of the Jokulsárlón lagoon in southern Iceland, and I had the idea that an artist might be…