"As I tell my students, every time you shuffle the cards, you get a new story."
Author, illustrator, and tarot reader Kris Waldherr on tapping into your creativity the metaphysical (or not) way, crowdfunding a book release, and her super useful new guide, TAROT FOR STORYTELLERS
Check out the collection of past Words With (Author) Friends, wherein I g-chat with an author and you get to read over my shoulder, and contribute to Kris’s Kickstarter (the campaign runs May 7 through 24) to nab her game-changing new book!
Me: Congrats on launching your Kickstarter (shortly)!!
How are you feeling about it?
Kris: Yes, it'll go live Tuesday morning [ed note: today!], if all goes as planned. Until I hit that "launch" button, it never feels very real.
Excited! I've been teaching tarot to writers and creatives since 2019—it's been a big goal to transform everything I've been offering with my workshops and classes into book form. It's been so gratifying seeing my students get so much from the tarot! Glad to go wider with the materials.
Love it! Can you share a little more about Tarot for Storytellers?
Absolutely!
Tarot for Storytellers: A Modern Guide for Writers and Other Creatives is intended as the ultimate guide to empowering your writing with the tarot. It's born from my decades of knowledge as a tarotist and writer—I've been reading cards for over thirty years and working in publishing for that long as well.
Suitable for tarot newbies as well as the more experienced, Tarot for Storytellers works its way through the elements necessary to bring a story to life—characters, plot, and more—while offering down-to-earth techniques to spark inspiration, dissolve creative blocks, and set goals. I've really loved working directly with students to develop these techniques, and have seen how their lives and writing can transform. You might even say it's magical!
Finally, the book can be used with any tarot deck.
It's also suitable for those with no tarot knowledge at all—it's very beginner friendly—but also goes deeper on the tarot front, if you do have experience.
The book will be available from Kickstarter in softcover, hardcover, and ebook formats. Eventually, it'll be sold everywhere, but Kickstarter backers get some nice perks as well as first dibs on the book. :D
Amazing. So you and I met because we're both novelists—our debuts came out around each other's in 2019. I know you've been reading tarot for much longer than that. When did you start melding tarot with storytelling?
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