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Alanna Rusnak

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in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada
December 30

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Alanna was born in the wrong decade and dreams of abandoning everything to live in a van and travel across Canada. She’ll call it "a book tour," but it’s really an excuse to unleash her inner hippie.

A collector of typewriters and John Travolta VHS movies, she believes life is too short to not indulge in the things that bring you joy and in keeping with that philosophy, she left a stuffy office job of 18 years to launch a full-time indie press out of a chicken coop on her childhood property.

An author of literary and speculative fiction, Alanna likes to play in dark spaces, but always leaves room for redemption. Her latest novel is about burning down the world in order to set things right.

Settled in West Grey as a four-year-old, it has always
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Alanna Rusnak Hi Michael. I would like you to think I am very intentional with my writing - but the truth is, the themes that came out in this book were not on purp…moreHi Michael. I would like you to think I am very intentional with my writing - but the truth is, the themes that came out in this book were not on purpose at all. When I started writing Wildwood, I actually believed I was sitting down to write a thriller. How wrong I was! (And I am so glad I didn't end up with the campy horror creep-in-the-woods-collecting-girls-in-a-shed/church version - can you imagine?!) It sounds a little cliché to say I let the book write itself, but by not overthinking as I let the story unfold, themes started to pop up. Of course it is informed by my own core values and to say I left nothing of myself on the would not be true - but there is a very magical thing that happens when you trust the narrative to take you where it should go.(less)
Alanna Rusnak Hey Jodi - thanks for reaching out and I'm thrilled that you're looking forward to Black Bird! It is still in the works but I have a deadline in place…moreHey Jodi - thanks for reaching out and I'm thrilled that you're looking forward to Black Bird! It is still in the works but I have a deadline in place so I'm working hard at making it. To say this book has been a journey is to put it lightly. It's so good to know people are eager for it! You can keep up with the progress here: https://blackbird.alannarusnak.com/(less)
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Cover Reveal for Book 2 in The Path That Takes Us Home Series

Last night, I sat beside the fireplace in the Carnegie Hall at the Owen Sound Library where I delivered the promised exclusive cover reveal to a crowded room of… two.

Participating in free programming through a public library certainly has its pros and cons.

Pros

free event space

ability to piggyback on all library communications, getting your name out there

access to a network outside your own

Cons

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“He is a blind man and I am his book of braille. His breath against my collarbone raises goosebumps on my arm as I let him read my story.”
Alanna Rusnak, Kissing Johnny

“Joy. In every breath. In every moment. In every turn of the blossom to face the sun. In every stream of juice that trails my chin from fruit so sweet. In Him. In the coolness of the evening when He walks beside us and His laughter lifts across the river as He delights in our wonder over this place He has given us. In silence. In starlight. In shouting an anthem of gladness that shakes the earth and hails birds into flight.”
Alanna Rusnak, Eve Undone

“We're all just wandering around with our fingers crossed, hoping we'll meet someone who will make our lostness a little less lonely.”
Alanna Rusnak, The Church in the Wildwood

“People swindle themselves out of Salvation with great regularity.”
Anne Rice, Angel Time

“We're all just wandering around with our fingers crossed, hoping we'll meet someone who will make our lostness a little less lonely.”
Alanna Rusnak, The Church in the Wildwood

“So this, I believe, is the central question upon which all creative living hinges: Do you have the courage to bring forth the treasures that are hidden within you?”
Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

“The universe buries strange jewels deep within us all, and then stands back to see if we can find them.”
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“Ah, what broken creatures we are, and how we endure.”
Anne Rice, Of Love and Evil

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