In this month’s author appearance presented by the Southwest Seattle Historical Society:

A lifelong fan of folklore and mythology, Molly Ringle has been writing both contemporary fiction and paranormal fiction for over twenty-five years. Her latest book, The Goblins of Bellwater (Central Avenue Publishing, 2017) has been called “a delightfully creepy paranormal romance set in the rich landscape of the Pacific Northwest . . . a journey to a world that feels both familiar and freaky—a wonderful place to get lost.”

Ringle says the inspiration for this novel is Christina Rossetti’s eerie, sensual poem “Goblin Market,” in which a young woman is tempted into eating fruits offered by goblins, which send her into an enchanted illness. The story was brought into the modern day, setting it in the deep dark woods of the Olympic Peninsula on the shores of Puget Sound. Ringle expanded many of the poem’s details to turn it into more of a proper 21st-century paranormal romance.

This free book-talk event by ‘Words, Writers & West Seattle’ of the Southwest Seattle Historical Society takes place at 5 PM at at Barnes & Noble/ Westwood Village, on Friday, November 3, 2017.

Ringle claims she was one of the quiet, weird kids in school, and is now one of the quiet, weird writers of the world. She likes thinking up innovative romantic obstacles and mixing them with topics like Greek mythology, ghost stories, fairy tales, or regular-world scandalous gossip. She has lived in the Pacific Northwest most of her life, aside from grad school in California and one work-abroad season in Edinburgh in the 1990s. She currently lives in Seattle with her husband, kids, guinea pigs, and a lot of moss.

“Words, Writers & West Seattle’s next First Friday book-talk is scheduled for 5PM, December 1st, 2017 at Barnes & Noble/Westwood and will feature David B. Williams and Jennifer Ott, presenting their book “Too High & Too Steep – Reshaping Seattle’s Topography” (Univ. of Washington Press, 2017) about the creation of the ship canal/locks in Ballard.