The next event Iโm appearing at is ConSYDeration- a new convention from the Sydney Speculative Scribes and West Words to be held at the historical Old Government House in Parramatta, Sydney on 11-13 September. Iโll be speaking on 13 September in Marquee at 2pm on a panel โUsing and abusing historyโ with Stephanie Russo, Gillian… Continue reading Events: ConSYDeration
Tag: fairytales
Winterbloom
โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ Description Several years into their marriage, Beauty and her once beastly husband are at a crossroads. Though they still love each other, they have not been able to have children nor talk about the problems that have beset them since the fairy curse was lifted. Instead, she devotes herself to the roses in their… Continue reading Winterbloom
The Unicorn Hunters
โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ ** I received an ARC for an honest review ** Description Anne of Brittany was a child when France invaded and drove her royal father to his death. Now she is a young woman, sovereign duchess of an occupied realm, and France means to crown their conquest by marrying her to their king. Such… Continue reading The Unicorn Hunters
By the Moonโs Good Grace
โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ Description The night after the tumultuous events at her grandmotherโs house, Little Red ventures into the woods to find her missing grandmother. Instead, she discovers a stranger who claims to be her aunt โฆ and learns a startling secret. Her family are wolves, changing form in phase with the moon, and the beast slain… Continue reading By the Moonโs Good Grace
Cinder House
โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ Description You think you know Cinderellaโs story: the ball, the magical shoes, the handsome prince. Youโre halfway right, and all-the-way wrong. Ella is a haunting. Murdered at sixteen, her furious ghost is trapped in her fatherโs house, invisible to everyone except her stepmother and stepsisters. Even when she discovers how to untether herself from… Continue reading Cinder House
Favourite Reads, Folklore & Fairytales
Book DNA is working to connect readers and authors through shared interests and passions. I participated in one event to help promote Three Curses and Other Tales while also sharing the books and authors who influenced me most in writing that collection. You can read my thoughts on my 5 favourite books that influenced me… Continue reading Favourite Reads, Folklore & Fairytales
The Sourdough Compendium
โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ ** I received an ARC for an honest review ** Description Within these pages, coffin-makers work hard to keep the dead buried and their own murderous urges in check; poison girls are schooled in the art of marital assassination; books carry forth stories and forbidden secrets; a young witch wreaks a terrible revenge on… Continue reading The Sourdough Compendium
Emily Wildeโs Encyclopaedia of Faeries
โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ Description Emily Wilde is good at many things: she is the foremost expert on the study of faeries; she is a genius scholar and a meticulous researcher who is writing the world's first encylopaedia of faerie lore. But Emily Wilde is not good at people So when she arrives in the hardscrabble village of Hrafnsvik,… Continue reading Emily Wildeโs Encyclopaedia of Faeries
We Kept Her in the Cellar
โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ **I received an ARC for an honest review** Description Eunice lives her life by three simple rules: One, always refer to Cinderella as family. Two, never let Cinderella gain access to rats or mice. Three, never look upon Cinderella between the hours of twelve and three a.m. Cinderella has dark and terrifying powers. As… Continue reading We Kept Her in the Cellar
Thornhedge
โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ Description Thereโs a princess trapped in a tower. This isnโt her story. Meet Toadling. On the day of her birth, she was stolen from her family by the fairies, but she grew up safe and loved in the warm waters of faerieland. Once an adult though, the fae ask a favor of Toadling: return to the… Continue reading Thornhedge

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