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Writers, After Dark #16: Rena Rossner Talking of folklore from atypical historical sources

Writers, After Dark #16: Rena Rossner Talking of folklore from atypical historical sources

by Summer Brooks | October 4, 2018 Leave a Comment

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Fantasy author (and literary agent) Rena Rossner talks about her debut novel, Sisters of the Winter Wood, where the inspiration for it came from, and her desire to explore the Jewish folklore that’s integral to her heritage.

Rena talks how her research through the oral histories and the history of a town’s act of resistance in 1903, and other stories around Russian, Ukrainian and Moldavian folklore, combined with “Goblin Market”, a poem by Christina Rosetti. In fact, half the novel is written in a sort of poetic verse, from the point of view of one of the sisters.

Here are the highlights of her book tour, now through World Fantasy Convention:

October 20, 2018 – 7pm
Raven Book Store (Lawrence, KS)
www.ravenbookstore.com

October 21, 2018
“Writing Jewish: Midrash, Myth and Miracle”
Sunday, October 21, 10am-5:30pm
Lawrence Jewish Community Congregation (Lawrence, KS)
jewishstudies.ku.edu/2018symposium

October 30, 2018 – 7:30pm
with Ilana C. Meyer
WORD Bookstore (Brooklyn, NY)
www.wordbookstores.com/event

November 1, 2018 – 7pm
Johns Hopkins University Bookcenter (Baltimore, MD)
johns-hopkins.bncollege.com

November 1-4, 2018
World Fantasy Convention (Baltimore, MD)
www.wfc2018.org

The rest of her tour dates can be found here: https://renarossner.weebly.com/events.html

Website: www.renarossner.com/
Twitter: @renarossner

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