{"id":1430,"date":"2015-06-04T17:50:21","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T01:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=1430"},"modified":"2015-06-04T17:50:21","modified_gmt":"2015-06-05T01:50:21","slug":"not-your-average-fairy-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/not-your-average-fairy-tale\/","title":{"rendered":"Not your average fairy tale"},"content":{"rendered":"
By Katrina Penaflor\r\n Campus Life Editor<\/pre>\n
Hamersly Library will host a book signing and reading of Kate Ristau\u2019s young adult novel \u201cShadowgirl,\u201d Wednesday, May 27, from 4-6 p.m. in room 107.<\/p>\n
Ristau is a former writing instructor at Western who has always harbored passions for teaching and writing.<\/p>\n
Some of her former works include a collaboration with multiple professors from the English and writing department on the coffee-themed anthology Coarse Grounds, and the book Commas: An Irreverent Primer, which she wrote with literature and writing instructor Maren Anderson.<\/p>\n
Ristau said she enjoys writing young adult and middle grade fiction and loves incorporating her background in folklore into her work.<\/p>\n
\u201cShadowgirl\u201d was originally published by Lycaon Press and later by Parenthetical publishing. It was released May 21.<\/p>\n
The novel is a young adult fantasy with incorporated elements of Irish folklore, and tells the story of a fey named \u00c1ine, whom Ristau said \u201ccrossed over from the fairy world to our world.\u201d The book follows \u00c1ine\u2019s journey to finding the truth about her family and past.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not a light fairy tale,\u201d Ristau said and adding that the novel\u2019s tagline is \u201cthis is not a fairy tale.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ristau said the novel raises the question: \u201cif a fairy came to our world what would it really be like?\u201d<\/p>\n
Ristau\u2019s \u201cstories are tight and have a forward momentum that makes them fast, exciting reads,\u201d Anderson said.<\/p>\n
\u201cShadowgirl\u201d is already raking in rave reviews on Amazon. One reader, Pam Killebrew, wrote in her review, \u201cI inhaled this book \u2014 from the first chapter I was hooked; I couldn\u2019t put it down. Interesting setting, intriguing characters, and a story that keeps you on the edge of your seat.\u201d<\/p>\n
Aside from the upcoming signing in Hamersly Library, Ristau will also be at Annie Bloom\u2019s Books in Portland May 28 from 7-8 p.m.<\/p>\n
Ristau\u2019s advice for students and writers is to continually write.<\/p>\n
\u201cGet a draft and get something out on the page,\u201d she said. The next step is \u201cyou have to revise and edit,\u201d and then: \u201cyou have to send it out.\u201d<\/p>\n
She added: \u201cafter you send something out, keep writing more.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ristau is currently drafting a sequel to \u201cShadowgirl,\u201d and has two other novels in submission.<\/p>\n
For more information about Ristau\u2019s work, go to her website http:\/\/kateristau.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By Katrina Penaflor Campus Life Editor Hamersly Library will host a book signing and reading of Kate Ristau\u2019s young adult novel \u201cShadowgirl,\u201d Wednesday, May 27, from 4-6 p.m. in room 107. Ristau is a former writing instructor at Western who has always harbored passions for teaching and writing. Some of her former works include a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":1440,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-life"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}