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Fairytale Friday: Souls and Sacrifices Among Fish
Quite dead Little Mermaid (Statens Naturhistoriske Museum, Copenhagen) Once upon a time, when yours truly taught drama to tweens, she got this brilliant idea that the kids were to perform The Little...
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Fairytale Friday: Fallen Princesses
What happens after the “happily ever after”? Photographer Dina Goldstein has an amazing series exploring the modern-day fate of the Disney Princesses: We don’t know which one we like the most:...
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In preparation for New Year’s Eve, here’s the girl that’s forever anxiously waiting for the clock to strike twelve. This is the first Cinderella movie, dating back to 1899. The sound isn’t all… there,...
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Fairytale Friday: Things To Know About Mermaids
Mermaid Lamnidae by David Gallet Beautiful and seductive water faeries, singing songs no man can resist… Here’s Things to Know About Mermaids: ~ Mermaids appear in fairy tales and myths all over the...
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Fairytale Friday: Fashionable Fairytales
In 2009 Spanish photographer Eugenio Recuenco did a fairytale themed fashion shoot for French Vogue. The pictures are bleak, sensual and mysterious – and very, very beautiful: This princess is most...
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Fairytale Friday: Sinful Princesses
Another short Fairytale Friday, since we have so many new, exciting fairytales to read… These lovelies were made by Deviant artist Chris Hill, who has paired some of the Disney Princesses with a deadly...
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Black Apples – An update
Slightly dusty and with broken stems? Not our Black Apples! (Picture taken at HM) It’s been about three weeks since we closed the submissions for Black Apples, and we still have about sixty princesses...
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Black Apples: Another Update
Yes, we’re still reading. Sorry for the wait! At this point all the submissions have been read and we have rejected about 4/5 of them. The reason for rejection varies, and does not always reflect the...
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Black Apples: The Very Last Update
We are very pleased to say that we have finished reading for Black Apples. We have replied to all the authors as well, but – we have had a few bounces, so if you haven’t heard from us yet, please let...
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Black Apples: Table of Contents
It is time for the grand drum roll… Here are the 19 new fairytales chosen for the Black Apples anthology: A Winter Evening - Sarah L Byrne And Gold in Her Eyes - Maigen Turner Bluebeard’s Child -...
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Fairytale Friday: Psyche, The Ultimate Fairytale Princess
While editing Black Apples, I constantly stumble upon topics that deserve their own blog post – and tonight I was supposed to write about the perils of marriage, as found in Beauty and the Beast, The...
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Fairytale Friday: On the Perils of Marriage
The Frog Prince by Lytayvea “The version of the story most of us know from childhood can be unpacked in so many ways, but the unpackings that ring truest for modern life lie somewhere between a...
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Fairytale Friday: Super Action Hero Princess, SAHP
Merida from Brave being brave In the Black Apples submission pile we found quite of few specimens of this aggressive, new breed of fairytale princesses, hereby named SAHP (Super Action Hero Princess),...
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Fairytale Friday: The Snow Queen and The Splinter in The Heart
The Snow Queen by P J Lynch “But now the looking-glass caused more unhappiness than ever, for some of the fragments were not so large as a grain of sand, and they flew about the world into every...
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Fairytale Friday: Beauty is a Bitch
Photo by Tim Walker A fairytale princess is not necessarily infused with blue blood, but defined by a set of other qualities like virtue, kindness, youth, innocence, the ability to feel a pea through...
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Fairytale Friday: The Problem of Good and Evil
More musings from the editing table: Fairytales would be nothing without evil: the dragon, the curse, the step mom or the wicked witch, there must be something there for good to battle. But what does...
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Fairytale Friday: Gingerbread Season
Hurray! It’s back! The season where we celebrate the story of a little girl’s victory over a wicked witch in the forest: Where it all began…From Hyatt Regency Hotel in Vancouver, Daily Mail Online...
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Fairytale Friday: How do you like them apples?
We are proud to let you know that we finally have all our delicious apples in the same basket! Black Apples will be released in April and available worldwide through Amazon. It’s been a pleasure to...
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Fairytale Friday: Black Apples is here!
We are thrilled to announce the release of Black Apples, 18 new fairytales. Now available in print from Amazon.com, and with Kindle- and e-book editions right around the corner. The collection features...
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Fairytale Friday: Karen Heuler – Revising a fairy tale
Karen Heuler is the author of “Twelve sisters, twelve sisters, ten” in Black Apples – 18 new fairytales. REVISING A FAIRY TALE In many beloved fairy tales, a girl or boy is discovered to be more than...
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