Gilded: Marissa Meyer's reimagining of Rumpelstiltskin - a podcast by RNZ

American author Marissa Meyer has spent much of the past decade reimagining the classic fairy stories we think we know so well, and turning them into smash hits. Her first novel, Cinder, became a New York Times bestseller, and she followed it up with three more installments in her Lunar Chronicles series. Then came an Alice in Wonderland prequel - Heartless; her own superhero series, Renegades; and last year she released Instant Karma, which is being adapted for TV by HBO. Marissa spins a new take on Rumpelstiltskin in Gilded - giving the "miller's daughter" from the original tale a name and quite a backstory. She joins Kathryn from Washington state to talk about her love of fantasy writing.

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