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The Cinderella Interviews: Melanie Dickerson

by Shonna | Mar 10, 2015 | Fairy tales, The Cinderella Interviews, Youtube

If you are a fan of fairy-tale retellings, you probably already know about Melanie Dickerson. She’s been writing retellings with an historical take for several years. She created her own kingdom for her story world, and several of her characters make cameos in...

Disney Live Action Cinderella Behind the Scenes and Trailers

by Shonna | Feb 11, 2015 | Cinderella's Dress, Cinderella's Shoes, Fairy tales

The new Disney Cinderella Movie comes out March 13, 2015. I’ve been collecting links in separate blog posts and Pinterest pins and Tweets, and thought it was time to put them all in one spot where I can add to them as the promotions continue. If you know of any...

Disney Live-Action Cinderella: Details About the Dress

by Shonna | Jan 9, 2015 | Cinderella's Dress, Fairy tales

I love learning the new details of the upcoming live-action Cinderella movie. Here is more about the dress designed by Sandy Powell: “The challenge was to make the gown look enormous, but still … have it move beautifully,” Powell said. “The...

The Cinderella Interviews: Tracy Barrett

by Shonna | Dec 7, 2014 | Fairy tales, Favorite Books and Authors, The Cinderella Interviews, Youtube

The Cinderella Interviews is a YouTube video series where I talk with other authors who have written Cinderella fairy-tale retellings. I am so excited about this project, I can’t even tell you. There will not be a particular posting schedule. The plan is to fit...

Friends #atozchallenge

by Shonna | Apr 7, 2014 | Cinderella's Dress, Fairy tales, Favorite Books and Authors

In the midst of this A to Z Blogging Challenge I have been tagged on another blog challenge from one of my new writing friends for the “My Writing Process Blog Tour,” which, I suppose would be the title of my blog post today, were it not for the fact it...

Cinderella Fairy-Tale Retellings

by Shonna | Mar 23, 2014 | Cinderella's Dress, Fairy tales, Favorite Books and Authors

Cinderella has always been one of my favorite fairy-tales. It’s not so much the rags-to-riches for me, or the romance, but the prevailing sense of justice when the girl who was treated so cruelly rises above, and takes the very place her tormentors were vying for. The...
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SHONNA SLAYTON is the author of the Fairy-tale Inheritance Series of young adult novels, beginning with Cinderella’s Dress. She edited curriculum for an education company before homeschooling her own children using literature-based whole book learning. She’s taught writing using fairy tales in school classrooms and workshops, as well as in public libraries as a writer in residence. Instead of seeing her in person, you can get the Lessons from Grimm Series which includes a writer’s guide and workbooks for writers to learn fiction techniques through fairy tales.

What I'm working on now:

Rise of the Kelpies (book 2)
Phase:Proofing
95%
NEW! Historical mystery
Phase:Outlining
10%

LMV is now up on Goodreads. Add it today:

The Little Mermaid's Voice (Fairy-Tale Inheritance, #6)

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