Ronel Janse van Vuuren hails from sunny South Africa, home of guinea fowl, hadedas and pigeons. She started her writing journey a long, long time ago, learning the craft and building her imaginary world until she became an award-winning author (still learning, still building, still dreaming).
What Ronel writes:
Check out these posts about what she writes and why she writes it:
The Art of Writing Dark Fantasy #amwriting
Writing About the Forgotten #folklore #mythology #amwriting
Magic, Faeries and Wonder #amwriting
You can also download her Writing Manifesto as a PDF.
You can get a FREE taste of her writing by going to your favourite online store and downloading The Fae Realm.
“She jumped over the hedge and entered the forest. No-one ever went there. Not even the most foolish of mortals. After the deaths during the last festival…”
—The Blue Festival, The Fae Realm, Ronel Janse van Vuuren
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“A must-read for fans of folklore-based stories — especially a good introduction for new readers of this author.” — One reader’s opinion on Goodreads.
Ronel’s Awesomeness:
If you want to know all about Ronel’s awards, just check out the Accolades page. But, you should know that she was honoured to receive the award of Fiction Writer of the Year in 2016 AND 2018 from INK: Skryf in Afrikaans.
What Ronel reads:
As for her taste in books, you can check out her Goodreads reviews. For a general idea, her favourite series is, of course, Harry Potter by JK Rowling, followed by the Wicked Lovely series by Melissa Marr. She also enjoys The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins, the Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer, the Black Magician trilogy by Trudi Canavan, and any book by Rick Riordan.
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Official bio:
Award-winning Dark Fantasy author Ronel Janse van Vuuren writes about kick-ass heroines, the duality of being human and loves to use folklore to underscore her point.
She’s a Rottweiler pack leader, chicken wrangler and horse servant.
All of her books are available for purchase from major online retailers.
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Learn more about Ronel:
Interviews and Guest posts
Interview with Rebecca Douglas
Interview with Renee Scattergood
Interview with Natasha Duncan-Drake
Zombies: through Folklore, Film and Fiction guest post on #FolkloreThursday
The Folklore of “Once…” guest post on The Writer’s Gambit
Women in Publishing Writing Conference guest post on The Writer’s Gambit and Stormdance Publications for “meet the authors of the Grumpy Old Gods Vol. 1 anthology” series.
And learn more about Ronel in her newest interview on NF Reads.