Check out this video of me at the Nashville Children’s Theatre where I talk about what inspired me to write Auntie Claus

12/16/2019

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Elizabeth Blosfield link

3/19/2026 04:41:11 am

It would be interesting to hear more about your inspiration for writing 'Auntie Claus'.

Elise Primavera

3/19/2026 04:15:14 pm

Thanks for your comment! Auntie Claus came to me when I went to a Barnes & Noble looking for just the right Christmas story as a present for a friend’s little girl.
Christmas is a time we spend with our families, and I thought why isn’t there a book about the Kringle Family? Or the Claus’? Which got me thinking about who these Kringle’s are and where were they—besides the North Pole? And what about the North Pole? Why wasn’t there a book about that?
I wanted to see the architecture and the environment– and I don’t mean that rustic little cabin with Santa and his wife – who always looked like Betsey Ross in the white cap. No…my North Pole was an otherworldly place, with lights that twinkled in the perpetual darkness. And the main character I wanted to see wasn’t Santa or his wife or his kids but his sister—the one who lived in the off season in NYC—where she could do the things she couldn’t do during Christmas, which was go to the theater, shop, take yoga, recover from the holidays and exist anonymously. Auntie Claus would be the glamorous one in the Kringle family. Mysterious and cool, unflappable and self-reliant like Coco Chanel, but the fun aunt like Auntie Mame…
Lo those many years ago I never found the book I was looking for – but I did find the inspiration to write my Christmas story. It's a joy to see this vision still resonating as we look towards Auntie Claus’s next chapter—and 25 years later she is only just getting started!

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