Book Description:
Snow White was a pet name her mother had given her, but her mother’s dead now. Adelaide hates that name anyway. A rampant fever claimed Adelaide’s mother just like a thousand others in Cologne where the people die without Last Rites and the dead are dumped in a large pit outside of the city walls. Adelaide’s father is determined to obtain a funeral for his wife, but that requires bribing the parish priest, Father Soren. When Soren commits an unforgivable atrocity, he pushes Adelaide to her breaking point, but if she seeks justice against the cruel priest, she risks sacrificing everything: her father, her friends, her first love, and maybe even her life.
Andrea Cefalo
Author behind "The Fairytale Keeper"
Give us 4 random facts about you (Be
Creative)
1.
My children are black and furry. They answer
to the names “Pretty Girl” and “Quigley.”
2.
I hate coffee.
3.
I used to be a Montessori teacher.
4.
I’ve been to almost every Western European
country except for Germany.
What inspired you to write “The
Fairytale Keeper”
A lecture about the commonalities of fairy tales
inspired The Fairytale Keeper series. My
professor said that nearly all cultures have a Cinderella story which made me
wonder if one person, living thousands of years ago, could have been the real
Cinderella. Could it be possible that
this one girl spawned all the different versions of the story? Well, that’s probably not likely, but it did
get me brainstorming. I am especially
fond of Grimm’s fairy tales so I twisted my unlikely hypothesis into the
presumption that one girl could have been the origin of Grimm’s most famous
fairy tales.
Favorite scene to write?
I like writing dreams because
they allow me to put a little fantasy in an otherwise realistic story.
Any advice to aspiring writers?
Learn as much about the
publishing industry as you can if you intend to see your work on bookshelves.
Favorite ice cream flavor
That depends on my
mood. Today, I’d like peanut butter
fudge.
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