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Princess Alethea Rants About “Hansel & Gretel”

November 18, 2013
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| Fairy Tale Rants, video

NEW FAIRY TALE RANT! It’s like I planned it or something. And I’m totally taking suggestions on what YOU think the original last line of “Hansel & Gretel” means.

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Nominate Princess Alethea…for everything!

November 17, 2013
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| Books, Hero, Poetry, Short Stories

Okay…not *everything*. But I am happy to report that I have more than one work this year eligible for award nominations! Yay! * Best Novel /Andre Norton Award HERO (Fantasy, YA) — Second in the Woodcutter Sisters series of fairy tale mash-up novels. (Think “Once Upon a Time” meets “The Princess Bride”) Saturday Woodcutter is a girl with a…

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Princess Alethea’s Power Salad

November 16, 2013
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| life

I keep making these salads and eating them before I remember to take a picture. OOPS. 🙂 My family has always eaten salads. When I was a kid, my salad consisted of cucumbers, with Creamy Cucumber dressing (which, of course, Kraft doesn’t make in the US anymore…but apparently you can still get it in Canada). I hated the lettuce–I…

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Princess Alethea’s Book Tour Diet

November 15, 2013
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| appearances, life

First of all, I want to give a HUGE thank you to everyone who stopped by here and shared their love, as well as my friends on FB and Twitter. I am a Princess who cherishes her Brute Squad proudly…and I know that Mom for one will be thrilled to see such an outpouring of support here on my…

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In Which Princess Alethea Gets Fat-Shamed

November 14, 2013
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| life

Yup. You read that right. In all my 37 years on this planet, I have never before had a fat-shamer doctor. Oh, I’d heard stories about them, horrible stories…but like all the other stories like these, I never thought it would happen to *me*. This guy is my GP –I’m not someone who gets sick all the time (just…

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Princess Alethea Rants About Snow White

November 12, 2013
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| Fairy Tale Rants, video

SPECIAL FAERIECON EAST EDITION: In Which Author Princess Alethea discusses the original Grimms’ Fairy Tale “Snow White” and BONUS CLIP, featuring Jim Butcher demonstrating the Old School Fae gang sign that Leanna and I instituted this year at Dragon Con. Yeah…it’s entirely possible we had too much fun. BUT ISN’T THAT THE POINT?!? Enjoy!

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New Books Released!

November 9, 2013
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| Books

Boy…this last bit of the year has suddenly seen FOUR books released with me in them. I feel all shiny and popular. In fact, when I get home from FaerieCon on Sunday, I’ll be buying myself some flowers to celebrate! Hero you know about…goodness knows I’ve been talking it up enough this year. The second is my collection WILD…

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My FaerieCon East 2013 Schedule

November 7, 2013
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| appearances

Yes, indeed, the rumors are true — I will be in attendance at FaerieCon East in Hunt Valley, MD this weekend! Here’s my schedule of events: Friday: 3:00-3:45 Meet the Authors (Salon A) 5:00-6:00 Author Tea and Meet and Greet (Writing Workshop Room) Saturday: 1:15-2:15 A Little Bit of Everything with Princess Alethea (Writing Workshop Room) 3:00-3:45 Autographing (Bookstore)…

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I Am Strange

November 7, 2013
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| Friends, life, video

…along with a slew of other awesome people. This was a mission put together by my friends Monte Cook and Shanna Germain — to check out the website, support the effort, and celebrate your own special strangeness, CLICK HERE. Featured Strange People (in order of appearance): Bruce Cordell · Jay Lake · Cat Rambo Lee Moyer · Kurt Busiek…

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