The Unraveling of Wentwater by CS Lakin: A Review
June 20, 2012In her Gates of Heaven series, CS Lakin has drawn inspiration from beloved fairy tales and used them as a launching point to create new…
Category: Fairy Tales
Of Villains and Antiheroes, Part Two
June 15, 2012While antiheroes have strong potential for redemption and often arouse reader sympathy, true villains have seared consciences and don’t engage our compassion in the same…
Of Villains and Antiheroes
June 13, 2012While antiheroes and villains share some commonalities, they’re distinctly different types of characters, and they evoke different emotional responses in readers. An antihero often serves…
5 Reasons to Read Fairy Tale Retellings
June 11, 2012For countless years, fairy tales have been told and retold, and right now there’s a strong growth of re-imagined fairy tales in both books and…
Like Trees Walking
June 6, 2012“The first tree she looked at seemed at first glance to be not a tree at all but a huge man with a shaggy beard…
Fairy Tale Miscellany and Moonblood Giveaway Results
April 25, 2012The giveaway for Moonblood has reached its end, and I’m excited to announce that Kat won the book! Thanks to all of you who participated….
Fairy Tale Inspired Jewelry
April 18, 2012When I came across this fairy tale jewelry, I couldn’t resist sharing them (although this post will likely be more of interest to female readers)….
In comparison with other fairy tales, few retellings of Snow White and Rose Red exist. Although storytellers have re-imagined Snow White and Rose Red in…
When the Grimm brothers wrote Snow White and Rose Red, they chose to incorporate direct morals–and even Christian elements–in a way that clearly instructed the…
In the past, I’ve done in-depth explorations of Beauty and the Beast and Rapunzel, and many of you expressed interest in similar series examining other…