In 2014, writer Christine Norris put a steampunk spin on the classic fairy tale “Cinderella” for her novel A Curse Of Ash And Iron (paperback, Kindle). Now, nearly a decade later, the book is coming back into print, and with a new publisher (eSpec Books). In honor of this, I conducted the following email interview with Norris to find out about how this story originally came to be.
The Grimm Brothers’ fairytale “The Juniper Tree” is considered by many to be their darkest story. Which is just one of the reasons why — as she explains in the following email interview — writer Ava Reid decided to put her own spin on it with the Gothic horror novel Juniper & Thorn (paperback, hardcover, Kindle, audiobook).
For 230 years The Old Farmer’s Almanac has provided long-range weather forcasts, planting charts, and even recipes in what is the longest-running, continuously published periodical in the U.S. But given how we’ve been living in the evil universe or the bad timeline or the upside down for the last couple of years, it’s probably no surprise that someone’s written an evil version called Turning Of The Seasons: A Dark Almanac (paperback, Kindle). In the following email interview, those someones — J.S. Breukelaar and Seb Doubinsky — discuss what inspired and influenced this collection of fantasy, horror, and sci-fi fairy tales.
Writer Jane Yolen is clearly a lazy person. What else can you say about someone who’s written over 370 books? So it should come as no surprise that her newest short story collection, How To Fracture A Fairy Tale (paperback, Kindle), is just her doing twisted adaptations of famous (and not so famous) folk tales. In the following email interview, Yolen actually took the time to defend herself…and to tell me which stories in this book my mom might like.