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Tarot for Storytellers
A Modern Guide for Writers and Other Creatives
2024
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Learn the tarot from an acclaimed tarotist and novelist with over thirty years of experience! Tarot for Storytellers is the ultimate guide to empowering your writing through the tarot. Written by Kris Waldherr, bestselling creator of The Goddess Tarot and author of The Lost History of Dreams, Unnatural Creatures and other critically acclaimed books, Tarot for Storytellers utilizes exclusive tarot exercises, insightful writing prompts, original card spreads, and other insights honed during Kris' decades as a tarot reader, author, and teacher. Suitable for tarot newbies as well as those with experience, Tarot for Storytellers progressively works its way through the elements necessary to bring a story to life-characters, plot, and worldbuilding—while offering down-to-earth techniques to spark inspiration, set creative goals, and even conquer writing blocks no matter where you are on your creative journey. Tarot for Storytellers is adapted from Kris' popular tarot classes and workshops, which she's taught to hundreds of writers and creatives. Whether you're a dedicated novelist, devoted journal keeper, aspiring screenwriter, or just wanting a more creative life, Tarot for Storytellers will help you access the intuitive wisdom of the tarot—as well as discover new ways to connect with your own personal narrative. ADVANCE PRAISE FOR TAROT FOR “What Kris Waldherr has done here is storytelling magic. Her inventive application of card spreads demonstrates not just a mastery of tarot, but of writing processes . . . Tarot for Storytellers is a must for any author struggling with metal blocks or confusion, for anyone searching for unexpected inspiration and guidance. Kris’s methods take brainstorming to another dimension. Here—finally—is an approachable resource, grounded in experience and expertise, on connecting with the creative spirit! Because of Kris, a box of tarot cards has a permanent place on my writing desk.” —LAUREN J. A. BEAR, author of Medusa’s Sisters “Kris Waldherr has crafted a remarkable resource in Tarot for Storytellers. It moves beyond the practical mechanics of storytelling and uses tarot to invoke the muse, open the heart and spark fresh ideas. This stunning creative resource belongs on every author, writer, and tarot reader’s desk.” —SASHA GRAHAM, author of 365 Tarot Spreads and Dark Wood Tarot

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Kris Waldherr
Kris Waldherr
Author · 14 books
Kris Waldherr is an award-winning author and illustrator whose books for adults and children include Bad Princess, Doomed Queens, and The Book of Goddesses. The New Yorker praised Doomed Queens as “utterly satisfying” and “deliciously perverse.” The Book of Goddesses was a One Spirit/Book-of-the-Month Club’s Top Ten Most Popular Book. Her picture book Persephone and the Pomegranate was noted by the New York Times Book Review for its “quality of myth and magic.” Waldherr is also the creator of the Goddess Tarot, which has a quarter of a million copies in print. Her Kirkus-starred debut novel The Lost History of Dreams was named a CrimeReads Best Book of the Year and her Unnatural Creatures: A Novel of the Frankenstein Women was an Editor's Choice at the Historical Novels Review.
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