As many of you may be aware, author HSJ Williams' fantasy novel, Moonscript, will be releasing on May 7, 2020. Do you know how close that is?!!? I don't know about you, but I want this book IN my hands when it is still hot from the printing press. In anticipation of this book's release, [...]
Category: fairy tales
The Magic of Music
Music has always been magical for me. Whether it’s Kate Rusby’s fairytale-esque folk music, a brokenhearted Chopin Nocturne, the hard bite of Switchfoot sound and lyrics, or simply when I’m geeking out to the Lord of the Rings soundtrack . . . I choose the music, and then, impossibly, the music seems to choose me. [...]
Winter Fairy Tale Reading
With the weather getting colder (we’ve already had SO much snow!), it’s just the perfect time of year for cozy reading. As usual, I have a whole slew of books I’m eager to read, so I thought it would be a great time to not only list a few that I’ve read, my opinions on [...]
Blind Beauty BOOK REVIEW
What a charming, well-told, and heart-touching collection of stories. Though these are fairy tale retellings, don’t expect to hear the same stories you think you’re familiar with. Each has creative and clever twists of its own that kept me reading from start to finish, hardly able to put the book down. It is extremely difficult [...]
Favorite Fairy Tale Blog Hop and HUGE Giveaway
Welcome to the 2018 Fairy-tale Blog Hop. Thirteen fabulous fairy-tale authors have gotten together to talk about their favorite fairy tales. Follow the links at the bottom of each blog post to hop to the next author's website. Collect our favorite numbers to total up at the end and enter to win a print collection [...]
Advice on Writing a Fairy Tale Retelling
If you’ve ever written, or tried to write, a fairy tale retelling, you’ll know that it’s not at all the same as writing any other story. Though you have a great deal of creative license, you can’t simply take the story exactly where you want it to go. You must stick to at least a [...]
AMA’s and Other News
AMA POSTS Some of you may already be members of the Fairy-Tale Forum, a Facebook page that fellow author Shonna Slayton and I started a few months ago. If you are, you will know that we have frequent AMA (Ask Me Anything) posts from invited guests. We have had talented artists, authors, crafters, bloggers, podcasters, [...]
Fairy Tale Giveaway
FAIRY-TALE FORUM For those of you who haven't heard, author Shonna Slayton and I have started a shiny new group on Facebook called Fairy-Tale Forum. If you're not part of it yet, please come on over and join! We have lots of fun stuff planned, and hope to see some fun fairy-tale-ish things from the [...]
Are Fairy Tales a Waste of Time?
This is a guest post by Brent King. As a Christian urban fantasy author I have been confronted, as have many of my writing partners, by those who doubt that fantasy, or fairy stories, have any anchor in the real world. Worse yet, some have argued that they take their reader far out of this [...]
8 Things You May Not Know About Cinderella
Before I wrote my own version of Cinderella, I researched the “original” versions of it. Surprisingly, there are several, and this story I thought I knew so well actually goes back further than I ever dreamed. I took several of the elements I liked the most from the old tales, added quite a few elements [...]
Ashlee Willis, Author of Fantasy 