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Fairytale Friday: The Rise and Fall of the Cinder Maid

Rook di goo, rook di goo! There’s blood in the shoe. The shoe is too tight, This bride is not right! (The doves) In the 8th century a Chinese scribe; Ch’eng Shis, wrote down an old folk tale about a...

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Fairytale Friday: On Apples

In celebration of our first anthology to be: Black Apples, we bring you some inspirational apple lore from myths and fairytales: Lilith by Julia Skaluzob ~The most famous apple in western lore is the...

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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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Fairytale Friday: Vintage Cinderella

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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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: 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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