Putting this short story written in the Cinderwild world up here for folks to check out, and happy Cinderwild Birthday!
Why do I love writing stories about characters on the edges of stories we know and love? Well, that might take a minute to unpack. It all began with a Jewish rabbi. Rabbi Ratner was one of my religious studies professors in college, who introduced me to the Talmud, which I can only (badly) describe here as a conversation between rabbis and other holy men throughout the centuries about the most hallowed religious texts of Judaism. The Talmud's teachings filter, reframe, and expand those foundational texts and stories. I fell in love with this concept and practice, and continue to obsess over it. Humans stay in conversation with powerful stories for centuries. I grew up reading Cinderella and Snow White, watching movies about them and seeing these roles reprised in a thousand different ways. Archetypes are akin to genetic coding for the emotional and imaginal realms, so when we rewrite that code, new and interesting ways to think and feel appear. It's real world magic, my favorite kind! Whew, it's been a long year and half, but now my book baby is almost here! Cinderwild will be released in a couple of weeks, and I'm so excited to share this book with y'all.
Here's why I love it: Fairy tales, but with a twist!!! Cinderwild is the story of Cinderella's godmother, Marina, a powerful witch living during the Thirty Years War. For those of you who haven't had history class in a while, this period was rife with change in Alsace, an eastern region of France which has officially passed over centuries between France and Germany but during the early 1600s mostly belonged to itself. Catholics and Protestants were fighting over who would control God, or at least the ways people approached God. And meanwhile women were being burned at the stake from Scotland down through Spain. Just a note for those of you who have been around for a while: this book is spicy. If you're not down with getting down, then this is not the book for you. I hope most of you will be curled up with this book over Christmas, and if not, reading something else you will love. Happy Holidays ! xoxo C |
AuthorCoranna Adams is a writer, filmmaker, and educator from Asheville, North Carolina. Archives
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