It’s Friday, and we are over at Kirkus. Today, Ana reviews T. Kingfisher’s The Seventh Bride This was wonderful and now I want to read all of her novels. Go HERE to see why.…
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Fairytales
Book Smugglers Publishing Spindle City Mysteries
Introducing The Spindle City Mysteries by Carlie St. George
Everything you wanted to know about Carlie St. George’s awesome fairytale noir series. Earlier we revealed the cover for The Case of the Little Bloody Slipper by Carlie St. George, the first of three interconnected novelettes in The Spindle…
Bone Gap is a book about perspective. About the difference between looking and seeing. About fairytales, self-image, the heavy burden that beauty can be and the pernicious ways we look at and treat women. It’s awfully tense and there…
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Middle Grade Review Bonanza: Monstrous by MarcyKate Connolly, Beastkeeper by Cat Hellisen, and Arsenic For Tea by Robin Stevens
The Middle Grade Review Bonanza is a feature with 2-3 mini-reviews for short MG books we really wanted to read. It’s a new Regular Thing (and we’d love to hear your thoughts and recommendations for future entries). The city…
A Wicked Thing is a reimagining of the fairytale Sleeping Beauty, a variant that combines the Disney version’s Aurora and Perrault’s version. It opens as Aurora opens her eyes when a prince kisses her lips awakening her from a…
Book Smugglers Publishing Inspirations and Influences Subversive Fairy Tales
The Astronomer Who Met The North Wind: Kate Hall on Inspirations & Influences
“Inspirations and Influences” is a series of articles in which we invite authors to write guest posts talking about their Inspirations and Influences. In this feature, we invite writers to talk about their new books, older titles, and their…
Today! Today, we are most delighted to unveil the cover of Book Smugglers Publishing’s very first short story. Without further ado, BEHOLD! The smugglerific cover! About the Story “Happy birthday, child. Careful not to shoot any grundwirgen.” Ever since…
Title: The Girls at the Kingfisher Club Author: Genevieve Valentine Genre: Historical Fiction, Fairytale Retelling Publisher: Atria Books Publication Date: June 2014 Hardcover: 277 Pages From award-winning author Genevieve Valentine, a “gorgeous and bewitching” (Scott Westerfeld) reimagining of the…
Title: Blackberry Blue Author: Jamila Gavin (illustrated by Richard Collingridge) Genre: Fairytales Publisher: Tamarind Publication Date: November 7 2013 Hardcover: 240 Pages Prepare to enter a world of magicians, enchanted forests, talking animals and wicked witches . . .…
September Girls by Bennett Madison (Harper Teen, May 21st 2013, 342 pages) September Girls flew completely under my radar – not much of a mermaid fan here – until the reviews started rolling. And that was when I became…
Title: Bitter Greens Author: Kate Forsyth Genre: Historical, Fantasy, Farytale retelling Publisher: Allison & Busby Publication date: February 2013 Hardcover: 491 pages An utterly captivating reinvention of the Rapunzel fairytale weaved together with the scandalous life of one of…
Title: Strands of Bronze and Gold Author: Jane Nickerson Genre: Historical (with minor supernatural elements), Fairytale retelling, Young Adult Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers Publication Date: March 12 2013 Hardcover/Paperback: 352 Pages Seventeen-year-old Sophia Petheram has been sheltered…
Title: Wisdom’s Kiss Author: Catherine Gilbert Murdock Genre: Fantasy, Epistolary, Young Adult Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children Publication date: September 12th 2011 Hardcover/Paperback: 314 pages Princess Wisdom, known as Dizzy, longs for a life of adventure far beyond…