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The Girl at Midnight by Melissa Grey is on sale in ebook format for $1.99. This is the first time the book has been bargain priced to my knowledge. The book uses Russian Firebird folklore as part of its plot. The sale is probably short term, so don't hesitate if you are interested. Book description: For fans of Cassandra Clare's City of Bones and Laini Taylor's Daughter of Smoke & Bone, The Girl at Midnight is the story of a modern girl caught in an ancient war. Beneath the streets of New York City live the Avicen, an ancient race of people with feathers for hair and magic running through their veins. Age-old enchantments keep them hidden from humans. All but one. Echo is a runaway pickpocket who survives by selling stolen treasures on the black market, and the Avicen are the only family she's ever known. Echo is clever and daring, and at times she can be brash, but above all else she's fiercely loyal. So when a centuries-old war crests on the borders of her ho

Six-Gun Snow White by Catherynne M. Valente (Author) and Charlie Bowater (Illustrator) is on sale in ebook format for $1.99. This was on my wishlist so I haven't read it yet. Now it's sitting in my virtual book stack. Book description: A New York Times bestselling author offers a brilliant reinvention of one of the best-known fairy tales of all time with Snow White as a gunslinger in the mythical Wild West. Forget the dark, enchanted forest. Picture instead a masterfully evoked Old West where you are more likely to find coyotes as the seven dwarves. Insert into this scene a plain-spoken, appealing narrator who relates the history of our heroine�s parents�a Nevada silver baron who forced the Crow people to give up one of their most beautiful daughters, Gun That Sings, in marriage to him. Although her mother�s life ended as hers began, so begins a remarkable tale: equal parts heartbreak and strength. This girl has been born into a world with no place for a half-native, half-whit

So last week John and I were standing in a long checkout line at TJ Maxx (for some skirt hangers!) when I saw a little pocket notebook with this cover on it. For some reason it tickled me no end so I added it to my purchase for a whole dollar. If only most of my treasures came at that low price! And sure I fell prey to the checkout line upsale tactics, but it was only a $1! I'm not sure why it tickled me so--I like that it doesn't show a typical blonde, blue-eyed prince and princess. It very much invokes Arabian Nights and Scheherazade to me so the fairy tales reference isn't exactly "off" but it doesn't exactly fit well either. It's some elusive quality of mixing the sensual with the trite that I think amused me so much. But I am not going to overthink this anymore. Moving on... Papaya Art is the distributor and they have greeting cards with the image available on their website.  Anyway, I wanted to shareanother way that fairy tales appear in my daily li

Cinderella across Cultures: New Directions and Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Series in Fairy-Tale Studies) edited by by Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Roch�re, Director Gillian Lathey, and Monika Wozniak was released in June. I have been putting off posting about it because I was hoping to find a list of the table of contents online to copy and paste since I don't want to retype the three pages of contents to share with you. After six weeks, I still haven't found a table of contents to copy and paste. The best I can do is a list of the contributors--the book is comprised of 18 articles about Cinderella divided into three categories: I. Contextualizing Cinderella, II. Regendering Cinderella, and III. Visualizing Cinderella. Here are the contributors. Cristina Bacchilega (Preface), Ruth B. Bottigheimer (Contributor), Kathryn Hoffmann (Contributor), Cyrille Fran�ois (Contributor), Talitha Verheij (Contributor), Daniel Aranda (Contributor), Ashley Riggs (Contributor), Mark MacLeo

The Snow Child: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize in Letters: Fiction Finalists) by Eowyn Ivey is on sale for $2.99 from a usual $10 price range in ebook format in the US . The novel is in part inspired by a Russian snow child tale available on SurLaLune at The Little Daughter of the Snow . If you read it, you will recognize the book described here. This tale shouldn't be confused with The Snow Child ATU Type 1362 which deals more with a wife's questionable loyalty to her husband. This tale is much more bittersweet in which a couple longs for a child together and create one out of snow. It is a bittersweet tale, especially for the childless. Book description: A bewitching tale of heartbreak and hope set in 1920s Alaska. Jack and Mabel have staked everything on making a fresh start for themselves in a homestead 'at the world's edge' in the raw Alaskan wilderness. But as the days grow shorter, Jack is losing his battle to clear the land, and Mabel can no longer contain her gr

The Cinderella Pact by Sarah Strohmeyer is on sale for $4.99, down from its regular $9.99 in ebook edition. Book description: Soon to be a Lifetime movie called "Lying to be Perfect" (Edit: The movie was released in 2010.) When Nola Devlin is turned down for her dream job because she's overweight, she decides to become thin-or, at least, pretend to be. The alter ego she creates-the thin, British, hip, and did we mention thin Belinda Apple-is a smashing success who is offered movie proposals, national television appearances and even dates...though no one's met her in person, of course. Then Nola takes Belinda a bit too far, and is forced to join "The Cinderella Pact" and drop the pounds. As the weight comes off, however, Nola's problems begin to mount.

CFP: International Conference of Mythology and Folklore The 3rd International Conference of Mythology and Folklore will take place October 15-16, 2016, in Bucharest, Romania. The series of specialized conferences of mythology and folklore continues in Bucharest this year as well, under the patronage of The Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures. The conference organizers propose the following themes: Ancient mythology and its reverberations in modernity Folklore and authored literature The actuality of myths The abstracts should contain the titles of the presentations, written in English (max. 200 words), followed by 5 keywords, a bio-note of approx. 7-8 lines, and an email address. Abstracts must be sent no later than October 1, 2016, to mythology.folklore16 at gmail com. The languages of the conference are: Romanian, English and French. If approved by the scientific committee, you will be notified no later than October 5th. In extenso papers (max. 10 p.) will be sent to the ema

The School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainani (Author) and Iacopo Bruno (Illustrator) is on sale in ebook format for $1.99 as a Kindle Daily Deal. It is usually in the $6.99 range and goes on sale periodically, but usually for $2.99 so this is a dollar less. Book description: At the School for Good and Evil, failing your fairy tale is not an option. Welcome to the School for Good and Evil, where best friends Sophie and Agatha are about to embark on the adventure of a lifetime. With her glass slippers and devotion to good deeds, Sophie knows she'll earn top marks at the School for Good and join the ranks of past students like Cinderella, Rapunzel, and Snow White. Meanwhile, Agatha, with her shapeless black frocks and wicked black cat, seems a natural fit for the villains in the School for Evil. The two girls soon find their fortunes reversed�Sophie's dumped in the School for Evil to take Uglification, Death Curses, and Henchmen Training, while Agatha finds herself in the Schoo

Press Release: The Brainery Workshop Summer 2016 Registrations Now Open Press Contact: Jilly Dreadful,  jillydreadful at gmail.com The Brainery Workshop, which hosts online creative writing classes focused exclusively on speculative fiction, is pleased to announce that Summer 2016 Workshop registration is now live. We're offering two classes this summer�Sci-Fi Fairy Tales and Short Fiction�as well as two Master Class Roundtable Sessions with John Joseph Adams and Silvia Moreno-Garcia. Workshops for Science Fiction Fairy Tales begin the week of July 3 and the workshops for Short Fiction begin the week of July 10. Class meeting times are based on student availability. Visit   http://www.transmography.net/brainery/syllabus-schedule/  to learn more and sign up. Workshop Details Science Fiction Fairy Tales , taught by Jilly Dreadful, Ph.D., and Carina Bissett, is a hypoxic-style workshop designed to push students to challenge themselves as writers and to question the conventions and li