Sleeping Beauty in Folklore and Books The poll to vote for the next tale is at the bottom of this post! Catch up on the whole series of fairy tale posts here. I quite like Sleeping Beauty as a story, I've got to be honest. I included it in The Crows as a motif/theme, with… Continue reading Waking Dangers for Sleeping Beauties
I’m currently revising my own darker, moderately spicy take on Beauty and the Beast, which has grown from novella to short novel, so I thought I would do an appreciation post for all the retellings and versions of it! That led me to thinking I could do a series of blog posts on this tale,… Continue reading Curl up with Cosy (or Not-So-Cosy) SFF
New post on Ko-Fi for all supporters - anyone who has bought something from my shop (over £1.99) or tipped me in the last 30 days, as well as all Ko-Fi members, can access this. This is the first chapter of the 0draft: it's just something I'm playing with. It's about 14K now, I don't… Continue reading New Ko-Fi Post: Yelen & Yelena
A folktale from Pagham-on-Sea, recorded by Rev. J. D. Allardyce (1904). There's a tale told of Barrow Field though no folk believe on it now, of the time Old Joss Hunderby went widdershins around the largest of the barrows there after a lamb, and before he knew what was what a door opened in the… Continue reading Folklore of Pagham-on-Sea: Jennet, Jenny and Pinnie-Pen
There is now a dedicated Twitter account, @OverheardPoS, for all those random things you might overhear around town, plus scraps of related prose. I'm using the prompts from #vss365 (vss is the abbreviation for very short story); #ConverStory (no dialogue tags, dialogue only, so perfect for 'overheard' snippets); #BraveWrite, #HorrorPrompt and occasionally some others like… Continue reading Overheard in Pagham-on-Sea
