The Rough Giraffe - Allegories with Brie Donning

Comments

Post a Comment

Find this post helpful? Leave a comment and let me know!

Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...

Popular posts from this blog

Handling the Physical with Tammy Lash

Image
How far is too far? Kissing? Handholding? How do you handle the physical part of writing your romances? (I mean, it has to be addressed unless your romance is confined 100% to letter writing). I have Tammy Lash here with us today to talk about just that. Tammy's the author of a lovely romance novel called White Wolf and the Ash Princess , a book that was completely not what I explected and reduced me to a sobbing mess of tears. (Internally, at least.) Over to you, Tammy! Tammy Lash Christian/Romance/Historical Fiction Author of The White Wolf and the Ash Princess Blog ~ Amazon ~ Goodreads ~ Facebook ~ Twitter ~ Instagram ~ Pinterest  Keep Monsters from Your Romance  (Tried and True Monster Rules on How to Handle the Physical in Our Books)     Can you believe it? I’m pushing fifty! I know, I know. I can’t believe it, either. Other people have a hard time believing it, too, I guess—well, at least that’s what my kids tell me. No, I’m not va...
Read more

Tattered Slippers - Submissions Now Closed

Image
First off, what is the Tattered Slippers Collection? You possibly already know, but in case you don't, here's the rundown. It's not an anthology. It's not even a series. It's a set of authors who are banding together and publishing their books together at the same time as a means of cross-promotion. And every book will be a retelling of the beloved fairy tale The Twelve Dancing Princesses. And your book doesn't actually have to feature tattered slippers, it merely must be recognizable  as  The Twelve Dancing Princesses. Is this a contest? No, it is not really. It is a promotional opportunity with limited slots. I'm more like an agent than a judge. Okay, so how is that going to work? Every book in the collection will be a story that was written or worked on as part of t he Arista Challenge . Authors interested will send me their stories, and I'll choose up to fifteen of them to be released together at the end of August. I'll assign each autho...
Read more

Breaking down Rapunzel

Image
Rapunzel. The one with all the hair. The best known of  Aarne-Thompson-Uther Type 310, The Maiden in a Tower .  This iconic story was the second of the Barbie movies, though it took until 2010 for Disney to finally produce the perfect note of Tangled. It's the tale that we're telling together in The Arista Challenge. So let's break it down, shall we? Basic Plot: Woman has pregnancy cravings and gets her husband to steal some greens from their (not-so-)friendly neighborhood witch. Witch demands the baby in return. Witch puts the girl in a tower, names her after the plant that was stolen from her. Girl has LOOOOOONG hair, which the witch uses as a ladder up to the tower room. Girl also has beautiful singing voice. One day, a prince happens by, hears her singing. Sees her in the window. Falls in love. Can't figure out how to get up there to her. Finds out that her hair is the ladder. Calls it down. She's scared at first, and then she falls in love. They plo...
Read more