{"id":2466,"date":"2019-05-27T06:00:21","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T11:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/?p=2466"},"modified":"2021-05-29T13:59:45","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T17:59:45","slug":"blog-tour-the-wise-and-the-wicked-by-rebecca-podos-guest-post-giveaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/blog-tour-the-wise-and-the-wicked-by-rebecca-podos-guest-post-giveaway\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Tour: The Wise and The Wicked by Rebecca Podos (Interview + Giveaway!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ubb-blog-tour-banner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fantasticflyingbookclub.blogspot.com\/2019\/04\/tour-schedule-wise-and-wicked-by.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/tour-banner.png\" alt=\"Blog Tour: The Wise and The Wicked by Rebecca Podos (Interview + Giveaway!)\"><\/a><\/p><p>Happy Monday and welcome to my stop on <em>The Wise and The Wicked<\/em> blog tour! I&#8217;m so excited because today I have an interview with Rebecca Podos! Read on to find out what inspired her to write this book, how she feels about LGBTQIA+ representation in her work, follow the rest of the tour, and enter a giveaway for a print copy of <i>The Wise and The Wicked<\/i>!! <!--more--><\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/wise-and-wicked-cover.png\" alt=\"Blog Tour: The Wise and The Wicked by Rebecca Podos (Interview + Giveaway!)\" title=\"Blog Tour: The Wise and The Wicked by Rebecca Podos (Interview + Giveaway!)\" class=\"ubb-cover-image alignleft\"><strong>The Wise and the Wicked<\/strong> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/authors\/rebecca-podos\/\">Rebecca Podos<\/a> <br><strong>Published on<\/strong>  May 28, 2019 by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/publishers\/balzer-bray\/\">Balzer + Bray<\/a> <br><strong>Genres:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/genres\/fantasy\/\">Fantasy<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/genres\/ya\/\">YA<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/genres\/queer\/\">Queer<\/a> <br><strong>Pages:<\/strong> 368 <br><strong>Add to <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/40220865-the-wise-and-the-wicked\" target=\"_blank\">Goodreads<\/a> <br><blockquote class=\"ubb-synopsis\"><p>Ruby Chernyavsky has been told the stories since she was a child: The women in her family, once possessed of great magical abilities to remake lives and stave off death itself, were forced to flee their Russian home for America in order to escape the fearful men who sought to destroy them.<\/p>\n<p><em>Such has it always been<\/em>, Ruby\u2019s been told, <em>for powerful women<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Today, these stories seem no more real to Ruby than folktales, except for the smallest bit of power left in their blood: when each of them comes of age, she will have a vision of who she will be when she dies\u2014a destiny as inescapable as it is inevitable.<\/p>\n<p>Ruby is no exception, and neither is her mother, although she ran from her fate years ago, abandoning Ruby and her sisters. It\u2019s a fool\u2019s errand, because they all know the truth: there is no escaping one\u2019s Time.<\/p>\n<p>Until Ruby\u2019s great-aunt Polina passes away, and, for the first time, a Chernyavsky\u2019s death does not match her vision. Suddenly, things Ruby never thought she\u2019d be allowed to hope for\u2014life, love, time\u2014seem possible.<\/p>\n<p>But as she and her cousin Cece begin to dig into the family\u2019s history to find out whether they, too, can change their fates, they learn that nothing comes without a cost. Especially not hope.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\t\t<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">\n{\n\t\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\n\t\"@type\":\"Review\",\n\t\"datePublished\": \"2019-05-27T11:00:21+00:00\",\n\t\"description\": \"Happy Monday and welcome to my stop on The Wise and The Wicked blog tour! I'm so excited because today I have an interview with Rebecca Podos! 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There are many different forms of storytelling found in <em>The Wise and The Wicked<\/em>\u2014fairy tales and folktales, family legends, song lyrics and podcasts. All are devices we use to sort out and engage with the world, and our place inside of it. I wanted to write a character who\u2019s been told stories about herself and the person she\u2019s destined to become, and who\u2019s grown up believing them. And then, suddenly, she has to parse out the places where story and truth tangle together, vine-like, in order to make a path forward for herself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That and, you know, I really wanted a book with Baba Yaga in it.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">What was your favorite bit of research you ended up not using?<\/h2>\n<p>I\u2019ve always been really intimidated by research, but this book showed me that I, too, could tumble down research holes for hours on end. I did a lot of studying up on the forests of Karelia, the part of Russia where Ruby\u2019s family originates, and on Vlach magic and Slavic histories of witchcraft. But I think my favorite was listening to hours of Carl Sagan\u2019s recorded speeches, learning all about the potential and possibilities for life on other planets, and then using none of it.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">How did you choose the names for your characters?<\/h2>\n<p>A lot of research into period-appropriate Russian and Jewish names, which, as a Russian Jewish person, was pretty fun. I did need a spreadsheet for the many Chernyavsky women, most of whose names ended in \u201c-ina.\u201d But for the main character, Ruby, I wanted a name that wasn\u2019t traditionally Russian, as if given by a mother who hadn\u2019t bought completely into the family lore and loyalty (plot point!) Cece, Ruby\u2019s beloved cousin, is a nickname for Vasilisa, which anybody familiar with the folktales will recognize\u2026<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">What\u2019s your current favorite book?<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My current favorite is whatever wonderful book I\u2019m reading at any given moment, and right now, that\u2019s Casey McQuiston&#8217;s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Red, White and Royal Blue. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And holy guacamole, this book is the cutest.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0How do you feel about LGBTQIA+ rep in your work and how important is it to you to write diverse characters and storylines?<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Like Water<\/em>, my previous book, was centred around a queer romance, and sexuality and gender identity were a large part of the book\u2019s theme of self-discovery. The same can be found in <em>The Wise and The Wicked<\/em>, but it was really exciting to add magic to the mix. I wanted to write a book where the queer and fantasy elements were inseparable, and to address how problematic straight and cisgendered systems of magic can be. Ruby\u2019s love interest, Dov, is a trans boy, and it was especially important to me that his gender identity wasn\u2019t a source of angst for him, but of power. There\u2019s so much power in knowing yourself, and in being able to look in a mirror and recognize and love the person looking back. So the importance of representation can\u2019t be understated, because sometimes, it\u2019s recognizing yourself in a story that allows you to see and love yourself in life.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">What books would you recommend to Ruby?<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unlike me, Ruby reads a lot of nonfiction, but her \u201cguilty\u201d pleasure is a podcast about a time-traveling college student who\u2019s been catapulted back through time after an unfortunate Bunsen burner explosion in her chemistry lab. By engineering explosions to blow herself up in each era, she hops around throughout the centuries, using her present-day knowledge and the scientific method to solve mysteries and right wrongs, pausing occasionally to kiss sexy land barons and peasants alike. So if you have a book comp for that\u2014preferably something with a happy ending\u2014I\u2019d love to hear it!<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">What would you do if you spent the day with Ruby? Where would you go to eat, hang out, relax, etc.?<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oh gosh, Ruby could probably use a chill day. She has a lot on her mind. Perhaps we\u2019d go to the Cone Zone, the town\u2019s eccentric ice cream parlor, for a garlic mint waffle cone, before binge-watching Chasing Bigfoot for the rest of the afternoon.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">What would Ruby&#8217;s favorite book be and why?<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is easy; any of Carl Sagan\u2019s books qualify, but let\u2019s go with <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Demon-Haunted World. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sagan, by the way, was one of the greatest storytellers of all time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Thank you so much for answering my questions, Rebecca!<\/h4>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>About the Author<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2471 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/AUTHOR-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/AUTHOR-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/AUTHOR-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/AUTHOR.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Rebecca Podos&#8217; debut novel, THE MYSTERY OF HOLLOW PLACES, was a Junior Library Guild Selection and a B&amp;N Best YA Book of 2016. Her second book, LIKE WATER, won the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Children&#8217;s and Young Adult. THE WISE AND THE WICKED, her third novel, is forthcoming in May 2019.<\/p>\n<p>A graduate of the Writing, Literature and Publishing Program at Emerson College and the Creative Writing Program at College of Santa Fe, Rebecca&#8217;s fiction has been published in journals like Glimmer Train, Paper Darts, and Smokelong Quarterly. By day, she works as a YA and MG agent at the Rees Literary Agency in Boston.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Author Links<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccapodos.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Website<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/6537142.Rebecca_Podos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Goodreads<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RebeccaPodos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/yaaassshudit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Follow the Tour<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fantasticflyingbookclub.blogspot.com\/2019\/04\/tour-schedule-wise-and-wicked-by.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2580\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Follow-the-Tour-Here.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"810\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Follow-the-Tour-Here.png 810w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Follow-the-Tour-Here-300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Follow-the-Tour-Here-768x427.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 810px) 100vw, 810px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Giveaway<\/strong><\/h2>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rafflecopter.com\/rafl\/display\/d9681b86369\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Enter here to win a print copy of <em>The Wise and The Wicked<\/em>\u00a0by Rebecca Podos!<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"text-align: center;\">(US Only)<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1254 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/wellwishescandyfishes003.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/wellwishescandyfishes003.png 600w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/wellwishescandyfishes003-300x160.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Monday and welcome to my stop on The Wise and The Wicked blog tour! 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