Promo and contest

[valarltd]

I have a new book today! All right, it's a short story. Lesbian fairy tale ahoy!


Giants' Peak holds adventure and love that is anything but typical for Molly Whuppie...

When food supplies run low in their large family, Molly and her two older but less capable sisters are sent away by their parents, forced to fend for themselves. Molly soon realizes she must put her skills to the test in order to save them all, from starvation, from the sinister woods, and from the fierce giants and vengeful giantesses inhabiting Giants' Peak.

But an encounter with three beautiful giant sisters gives Molly hope that not only will she and her siblings survive, but she might also find unexpected love along the way...


$1.95 this week.

To celebrate. I'm giving away three copies of it (everything comes in threes in fairy tales). To enter, leave a comment telling me about your favorite fairy tale. Winners will be chosen tomorrow by random number generator.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I like cleverly twisted fairy tales. For example, Deborah Brown’s “Sleeping Myrtle”, “Kings Don’t Cry”, and “Snow”; Kiernan Kelly’s “Master Cat” and “On the Inside Looking Out”; Elisa Viperas’s “Bat Prince”; Vic Winter’s “Mountain Troll”.

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

I loved The Master Cat. (I liked most of that anth)

BTW, who is this?

[(Anonymous)]

Hmm... No one you know, just a reader of romance ebooks who thinks she should be more talkative online.

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

Welcome to the Den of Debauchery then.

[xjenavivex.livejournal.com]

I am reading Kelly Link's Pretty Monsters and enjoying the dark fairy tales of sorts.

My favorite seems to be Sleeping Beauty. I bet you know this because of the number of stories I have going that come from this tale. (beta and kingdom filters if you aren't on them and want to be) I think it has alot to do with my contemplation of death and the long sleep.

What is yours?

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

Bluebeard was my fave when I was a kid. These days, it varies on what I'm writing. The Golden Bird, Saturday Mountain, Childe Rowland are all big hits.

But Longshanks, Girth and Keen will always top the list. I am so writing that as SF someday.

[ravenskye8.livejournal.com]

I love fairy tales in general... especially the original un-Disneyfied ones... there is something about the darkness and complexity of the original tales that really makes them remarkable (and shows me that we really have re-defined the overall concept of childhood).

I keep coming back to the original Little Mermaid story, because it's so interesting to deconstruct.

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

I like some of Disney's work. Sleeping Beauty is ALMOST dark enough. Maleficent is truly scary.

but yes, the original are almost always better. Anderson never did anything for me. His stories always end so badly.

[ravenskye8.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean about Anderson's stories - but I am constantly perplexed by what the meaning behind the Little Mermaid is - because it's got multiple ending points... She loses the prince, end of that storyline, but then she goes and tries to kill herself, looks like the end of the story, but yet these air spirits save her and she becomes one of them, again, looks like the end of the story, but then he dangles out there this concept that if she lives long enough as an air spirit doing good deeds that she might earn a mortal soul and become human - which is what she desired in the beginning of the story... so what are we supposed to learn from this? The generally accepted moral of the story is that you should be content with what you have, or that sometimes your goal isn't worth the sacrifice... but you could also get another moral out of it, that sometimes even if everything goes wrong you might still get what you want... It's just intriguing that you can get all of that out of the one story...

[thestrua.livejournal.com]

Too late to be in the drawing, but I do want to suggest that if you don't already know about Peter Cashorali's Fairy Tales: Traditional Stories Retold for Gay Men (and its sequel), you really should pick it up. I'm a lesbian, so it didn't always work for me as far as some of the gay culture references, but it was interesting to see how Cashorali manipulated the stories and came out with, sometimes something grander. Also, they are very traditional, which I like. I have Grimms and a dozen folklore books from other cultures.

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

Since you are one of three who left a way to contact you, I'll be happy to send along a copy.

I hadn't encountered Cashorali. But I do like Zipes' Don't bet on the Prince

I really enjoy re-doing fairy tales, since I grew up on them.