The Cinderella Interviews: Five Glass Slippers

This latest Cinderella interview was so much fun. Five Glass Slippers is a collection of Cinderella stories by five authors. When author-turned-editor Anne Elisabeth Stengl and Rooglewood Press posed the challenge to write a Cinderella retelling, the stories came flooding in from around the world. The winning entries are all so different, and it was a delight to read them back-to-back and spot all the different ways they used the symbols from the classic stories. (FYI: More collections are in the works. The deadline for Beauty and the Beast stories has passed, but stay tuned for the next contest.)

The authors of Five Glass Slippers are: Elisabeth Brown, Emma Clifton, Rachel Heffington, Stephanie Ricker, and Clara Diane Thompson.

In my first ever group hangout, I got to talk with all of them about the making of this collection. Given that it was my first group hangout, we suffered the inevitable first-time glitches, but with the magic of editing, got everyone all together in one fun video. We have a great time getting to know one another, and I look forward to more wonderful stories by these authors. Enjoy the interview: