Earlier in the month, I asked you to send me fairy tales you found memorable that weren't the ones everyone's heard of. I said I was collecting them for a reason I would explain later.
So ... here's the reason:
It's a book! ~cue Kermit arm flailing~
If you read the (limited time) Once Upon a Forbidden Desire anthology, you might remember I had a short story in it. This is the expanded version, a novella double the length of the original.
Into the Bargain started off with a handful of fairy-tale references woven into the story. I kept adding as I expanded because main character Pen Novak sees the world through a bit of a fairy-tale lens — in the watch-out-for-monsters sense, not someday-my-prince-will-come.
When I'd finished tucking in allusions to all the fairy tales I could, I thought: Wait, maybe my awesome readers would have additional ideas.
You totally did. Because you're, you know, awesome.
Some of your fairy tale recommendations are going into the final version. Some were already there, and it made me feel good to know that you'll totally get it when you see it.
I'm not mentioning any of these fairy tales here because I'll be celebrating the book's launch with a quest to find them. For prizes. More on that later!
If you'd like to get an advance review copy of Into the Bargain or join my street team to help spread the word about it on the socials (thank you!), fill out this form:
Here's what the book is about:
A young lady with no income—and shortly no home—must be in want of a wizard husband.
Pen Novak has two weeks to find someone to marry. Otherwise, she’ll be spirited off to live with her awful uncle. Fortunately, her town’s omnimancer is on the market, and he plans to choose someone at a ball in thirteen days.
Unfortunately, he’s not the type to appreciate cleverness, persistence or anything else Pen has to offer.
Enter the wizard’s intriguing assistant, who makes her a bargain: a magical brew that could virtually guarantee her selection, in exchange for a favor. Which he won’t specify. Nor will he tell her his name.
Of course she shouldn’t accept. Especially as she starts to notice his fine eyes and tempting lips.
But with all the job openings in town meant for men only, what other choice does a young lady—or, rather, a not quite so young lady—really have?
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