In Episode 51 of Literary Prospects, we talk with author Anna Rasche about her new novel, The Stone Witch of Florence.
Anna is an author, gemologist and jewelry historian who has previously worked in the jewelry collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She is a member of the teaching faculty at Sotheby’s Institute of Art and has a master’s degree in the history of design. The Stone Witch of Florence is Anna’s debut novel, and is based on original research she conducted on the uses of gemstones in medieval medicine at the Cooper Hewitt Museum and on site in Italy. Anna lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband, daughter, and two cats.
In this interview, Anna talks about how her work as a gemologist and jewelry historian inspired the book, the road to publishing her first novel, learning to sell herself as an author, and much more…