One of the original items on my to-do list that launched May 2011’s Month of Writers here on the site was a series of interviews I planned with the contributors of How To Write Magical Words: A Writer’s Companion. Are you familiar with the Magical Words site? If you’re a writer, you should be! The contributing bloggers there are…
I’m not quite sure at what point I fell in love with Howard A. Jones’s novel The Desert of Souls–I could open the book to find out, but then I’d get stuck reading it all the way to the end again, and my schedule will not allow it! Suffice it to say, it was somewhere in the first two…
Back on “Take Your Princesses-in-Training to Work” Day, Ariell and Kassidy helped me create a great questionnaire that I could send out to the ever-growing list of authors on my to-interview-list. After I sent the interview out, Ariell then started formatting all the interviews into posts for me. Hooray! We start with my dearest longtime friend, Luc Reid. (Some…
Hello! My name is Ariell Branson, and I’ll be guest blogging here today for the Princess. Because today is take your kid/fairy goddaughter to work day, which basically means that, instead of learning algebra, or say, “physical education” my sister (Kassidy) and I get to learn to be full time writers. Which, takes a lot more work than you…
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Princess Alethea’s Fairy Tale Theatre: Episode 1 “The Fox and the Geese”
..like a rainbow caught in a storm. Also, I’m in the thick of novel revisions/rewrites. Your regularly scheduled blog will return…um…yeah. And it’s not like I’m not constantly on Twitter or anything. I’m still alive and kicking. And beautiful. And caught in a storm…
Excerpt: At first, she sang to remember. It was a way to pass the long, dark time, a way to drown out the buzz in her head when the earth shook and the bunker rattled, a way to live outside the bars of her cage, to be a woman who smoked and drank, flirted and pined, flipped her pin…
When it rains it pours, and I’ve got my umbrella flipped upside-down to catch it all! On the heels of Horrorfind comes this sale to the awesome Michael Knost at Shroud Magazine. Look for it in the very next issue! This story is based on the legend of Beilstein castle in Germany (pictured right). Excerpt: April 12, 1946 You…
Happy October! I have a book out today!You should go buy a copy. Table of Contents: “The Witch of Black Mountain” – Alethea Kontis “The Power of Moonlight” – Debbie Kuhn “Hiding Mountain: Our Future in Apples” – Earl Dean “Psychomachia” – Geoffrey Girard “Yellow Warbler” – Jason Sizemore “Kingdom Come” – Jeremy C. Shipp “Trouble Among the Yearlings”…
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