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The Quick Version About JacQueline Vaughn Roe
A lover of fairytales, JacQueline Vaughn Roe enjoys telling stories, asking God hard questions, and laughing with her family and friends. She lives in North Alabama with her amazing karate husband and three book-crazy children. She takes every opportunity to drink coffee while wearing dangly earrings and the color purple.
A Little Bit More Detail
JacQueline loved storytelling since she was young. She remembers telling her second grade teacher she would one day grow up to be an author. Her teacher nodded and said she had suspected it all along. The third daughter of four, she grew up in a loving and wacky family of believers in Jesus Christ. Such an upbringing leaves its mark. In every story JacQueline now writes, she endeavors to tell the story of redemption in new ways.
While trained specifically at college for the stage, JacQueline took her degree and transitioned. She not only learned to write scripts, but applied her love of character development into short stories and finally novels.
Why Retell Fairytales with a Christian Worldview?
As a young adult, JacQueline worked as a nanny in North Dallas. Every morning one summer, she would drive to work and noticed over the wall of an enclosed house peaked six-foot-high sunflowers bobbing their yellow heads in greeting. She looked forward to seeing them every morning until one day when they weren’t there anymore. Her storytelling imagination went into overdrive. Where had they gone? Had someone chopped them down? Having just finished a lengthy writing project, her mind was ripe for something new. Rapunzel began telling me her story of how sunflowers had led Paul to her tower. She told me of how the witch decapitated the sunflowers, threw Paul from the tower, and left her bewildered in a wilderness. At first thinking she was “just” writing a short story of fairytales retold, she soon found that each chapter led to the next and Rapunzel’s Journey was born.
Often, readers express surprise that Rapunzel’s books contain difficult questions of faith and theology. JacQueline openly shares that most of these questions have been hers throughout the years of writing the novels. In many ways, she wanted to leave readers a path to follow, a journey of faith, if you will, as Rapunzel often trips but finds her way through the maze of life.
Are you ready for the Journey?
The Journey is now complete and you can find the complete series at Amazon (free in KU!), Bookshop.org, or Barnes & Noble. For your free copy of the prequel novella, Before the Tower, simply click here and get started on your journey with Rapunzel and her friends.
