Dear Twitter: I lied. This morning, on social media, I admitted to being the White Privileged American granddaughter of a refugee twice over. My papou’s mother fled (with four small children) to Greece from the Catastrophe of Smyrna. Papou himself later fled to America* after the Nazi occupation of Greece. He served in both the Greek Merchant Marines and…
Episode 54: In which Princess Alethea rants about the Japanese fairy tale “How the Wicked Tanuki was published.” (Andrew Lang, Crimson Fairy Book) Only one more episode left before the Season Finale of Fairy Tale Rants! SUPPORT FAIRY TALE RANTS ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/princessalethea Read the Woodcutter Sisters Series: ENCHANTED: http://amzn.to/1xatsXU HERO: http://amzn.to/1FOpEwP DEAREST: http://amzn.to/1xKI0bH
Curses, blood red apples, glass slippers, magic flutes, lousy brothers, fainting princesses, romance, betrayal, death, and gnomes. WHAT’S NOT TO LOVE?!? Give as little as $1 per episode — CLICK HERE TO SUPPORT FAIRY TALE RANTS ON PATREON!
As promised, a fairy tale that’s a little less melancholy than “The Death of the Hen.”
Episode 37: In which Princess Alethea rants about the Grimms’ fairy tale “The Riddle.” Because it’s not a fairy tale without a beautiful, haughty, know-it-all princess! Read Enchanted …and get Hero too!
Tiara time! Princess Alethea shares one of her favorite childhood stories for Children’s Book Week and invites you to share your own!
WARNING: MAY CONTAIN TOO MUCH HAPPINESS FOR YOUR MONDAY MORNING. Proceed with caution. xox
This fairy tale is NOT what you think it’s about. It’s actually much, much worse. Enjoy my facial expressions for this one…and I’ll see you back in DC!
9. You travel a lot for appearances and cons – how do you organise your life to fit in writing, relaxing, family, all the other stuff? HAHAHAHAHAHA YOU SAID “ORGANIZE” HAHAHAHAHAHA *snort* (Click here to read the reat of the interview!)
Interesting data point: This week’s fairy tale rant video is 9 minutes long as opposed to the typical 5 minutes. I still keep the rant to about 5 minutes, but then there is a brief explanation of how my short story “Blood From Stone” incorporates both this fairy tale as well as the historical real-life of serial killer Gilles…
Dearest Squad, As soon as Saturday freed that dragon…
tl;dr: You can buy it directly from the printer…
Happy Prime and Anti-Prime Day! (which I think now…
