by Shonna | May 4, 2019 | Fairy tales, reading challenge
One of the reasons there are so many royal characters in a fairy tales is that they symbolize themes like ultimate power and goodness. We expect the king to be a wise ruler, honest and fair in his dealings. Likewise, the queen should embody the best of the feminine...
by Shonna | May 2, 2019 | Cinderella's Dress, Fairy tales
Cinderella’s Legacy available in Kindle, KU, and in print world-wide. Cinderella’s Legacy releases today!!! (Kindle link) This novella completes my Cinderella series. LEGACY is a prequel to CINDERELLA’S DRESS and CINDERELLA’S SHOES. Far...
by Shonna | May 2, 2019 | Fairy tales, reading challenge
We are already up into the 70s in our reading of Grimm’s Fairy tales! 69: Jorinde and Joringel70: The Three Sons of Fortune71: How Six Men got on in the World72: The Wolf and the Man 69: Jorinde and Joringel 70: The Three Sons of Fortune 71: How Six Men got on...
by Shonna | Apr 27, 2019 | Fairy tales, reading challenge
The most popular fairy tales seem to involve royalty and romance with a good dose of palace intrigue. (Think of the most famous tales: Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White) This week, two of the Grimm’s Fairy tales we read are firmly set in this royalty genre:...
by Shonna | Apr 25, 2019 | Fairy tales, reading challenge
65: All-Kinds-of-Fur66: The Hare’s Bride67: The Twelve Huntsmen68: The Thief and His Master
by Shonna | Apr 20, 2019 | Fairy tales, reading challenge
Three of the four stories we read this week contained variations on the Tests of Three trope. In these stories we find: Character TestInheritance TestMarry the Princess Test All in sets of three. All involving three brothers, the youngest being called a Simpleton who...
by Shonna | Apr 17, 2019 | Fairy tales, reading challenge
After the epic story last week, we’ve got four shorter stories to read this week: 61: The Little Peasant62: The Queen Bee63: The Three Feathers64: The Golden Goose
by Shonna | Apr 13, 2019 | Fairy tales, reading challenge
I kept going back and forth between which topic to talk about this week. My first thought was DRAGONS as we had our first dragon story in the Grimm collection. But it was the first, so I have nothing else to compare it to yet. The Two Brothers fairy tale by Grimm And...
by Shonna | Apr 10, 2019 | Fairy tales, reading challenge
Read these stories this week (several websites have these stories available to read for free) and then add your blog response to the blog hop: 57: The Golden Bird58: The Dog and the Sparrow59: Frederick and Catherine60: The Two Brothers
by Shonna | Apr 6, 2019 | Fairy tales, reading challenge
Let’s talk editing today. I’m in the final stages of publishing a prequel novella for my Cinderella books. Note: The preorder will be up this week, and if you want to read it before it goes on sale, sign up for my newsletter—click on Free Story above. At the time of...
