If you missed the introduction to this year’s Fairytale Fantasy series of posts, find it HERE. Laura Wood’s A Single Thread of Moonlight Laura Wood’s Cinderella-themed YA novel (Scholastic, 2021) is a lovely read, my favorite of the Cinderella re-tellings I’ve… Continue reading

J. Phillips’s Sometime After Midnight If you missed the introduction to this year’s Fairytale Fantasy series of posts, find it HERE. Sometime After Midnight (Viking, 2018) is billed as a “CinderFella” story–a reimagining of the Cinderella story through an LGBTQ+ lens.… Continue reading

Kate Forsyth’s Bitter Greens If you missed the introduction to this year’s Fairytale Fantasy series of posts, find it HERE. By the way, I just discovered this great blog post on all things Rapunzel. And here‘s a blog that does a… Continue reading

Measha Stone’s Tower If you missed the introduction to this year’s Fairytale Fantasy series of posts, find it HERE. This is the second of the Rapunzel-themed novels I’m discussing during this year’s Valentine Week. The novel, published in 2018, is Book… Continue reading

Megan Morrison’s Grounded: The Adventures of Rapunzel If you missed the introduction to this year’s Fairytale Fantasy series of posts, find it HERE. Of the Rapunzel-themed novels I decided to discuss this year, Morrison’s Grounded, Book I of her Tyme… Continue reading

THE RETURN OF FAIRYTALE FANTASY FAIRY TALE: This term is confusing. Frequently, tales we call “fairy tales” don’t involve fairies at all, and the books I pick for this Valentine feature may or may not include fairies–fae–the fair folk–whatever you… Continue reading

We probably all know the role the heroic Anglo-Saxon tale Beowulf has played in creating modern fantasy. To recap: a poem from the late tenth century, written in Anglo-Saxon (aka Old English–not, as some think, that older type of English… Continue reading

In the news this year: the U.S. obtained custody of Libyan terrorist Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi, who participated in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988. The bombing killed 270 people, including all… Continue reading

Add to your stack of books for holiday reading of all sorts, for all readers, by checking out this sale at Smashwords: My books are all on Smashwords now, so I’m excited. And here’s another promo for fantasy books exclusively… Continue reading