“A Poor Man’s Roses” now up at Apex
Excerpt: At first, she sang to remember. It was a way to pass the long, dark time, a way to drown out the buzz in her head when the earth shook and the bunker rattled, a way to live outside the bars of...
View ArticleBeen feeling a bit like this lately
..like a rainbow caught in a storm. Also, I’m in the thick of novel revisions/rewrites. Your regularly scheduled blog will return…um…yeah. And it’s not like I’m not constantly on Twitter or anything....
View ArticlePrincess Alethea’s Fairy Tale Theatre: Episode 1
Happy Chinese New Year! This is The Year of the Rabbit, and I — as you know — am a rabbit. Welcome to my year! In celebration of this magical day, I am launching my year-long (and hopefully longer)...
View ArticleProtected: Chapter 1
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View ArticleWriters/Princesses In Training
Hello! My name is Ariell Branson, and I’ll be guest blogging here today for the Princess. Because today is take your kid/fairy goddaughter to work day, which basically means that, instead of learning...
View ArticleGenre Chick Interview: Luc Reid
Back on “Take Your Princesses-in-Training to Work” Day, Ariell and Kassidy helped me create a great questionnaire that I could send out to the ever-growing list of authors on my to-interview-list....
View ArticleGenre Chick Interview: Howard A. Jones
I’m not quite sure at what point I fell in love with Howard A. Jones’s novel The Desert of Souls–I could open the book to find out, but then I’d get stuck reading it all the way to the end again, and...
View ArticleGenre Chick Interview: Faith Hunter
One of the original items on my to-do list that launched May 2011’s Month of Writers here on the site was a series of interviews I planned with the contributors of How To Write Magical Words: A...
View ArticleGenre Chick Interview: Stuart Jaffe
One of the original items on my to-do list that launched May 2011’s Month of Writers here on the site was a series of interviews I planned with the contributors of How To Write Magical Words: A...
View ArticleThe Jewelry Designer Diva
Just because it’s not May anymore doesn’t mean I won’t be hosting interviews on my blog anymore. They just don’t always have to be about writers…like this one! I talk about my sister Soteria and her...
View ArticleNew Woodcutters on Audio!
I am incredibly excited to announce that HERO and DEAREST are available in audiobook as of RIGHT NOW, read by the magnificent, award-winning Katherine Kellgren Herself! Hero: http://amzn.to/1R5hqWQ...
View ArticleSideshow T-Shirt Quick Links
Support the efforts of Princess Alethea’s Traveling Sideshow by obtaining this year’s commemorative original tee! http://amzn.to/2bkBDdf and w/black lettering: http://amzn.to/2bjUG4v ⭐️ The post...
View ArticleMoAA Interviews #23: Ellen Oh
I met Ellen Oh through a local YA writers/readers/bloggers group on Facebook, though I’d been hearing her name in certain circles (doesn’t that sound ominous?) before then. When I dropped her a line,...
View ArticleMoAA Interview #25: Vanessa Barger
Today, MoAA is proud to present Vanessa Barger! **************** Alethea Kontis: What’s the best thing about writing? Vanessa Barger: The best thing about writing? Tough question. I think it’s being...
View ArticleMoAA Interview #26: John Klima
Today, MoAA presents SF editor John Klima! ************* Alethea Kontis: What’s the best thing about editing? John Klima: Working with amazing authors. Seeing the finished project after all the hard...
View ArticleMoAA Interview #27: A.B. Westrick
Today, MoAA presents fabulous fellow children’s author A. B. Westrick! ******************** Alethea Kontis: What’s the best thing about writing? A.B. Westrick: Achieving clarity of thought. AK: What’s...
View ArticleMoAA Interview #28: Jennifer Brozek
Today, MoAA features author Jennifer Brozek! ******************** Alethea Kontis: What’s the best thing about writing? Jennifer Brozek: The best thing about writing is that it’s the best temporary cure...
View ArticleMoAA Interview #29: Natalie Dias Lorenzi
Today, MoAA presents superawesome author Natalie Dias Lorenzi! ******************* Alethea Kontis: What’s the best thing about writing? Natalie Dias Lorenzi: When the words flow from brain to...
View ArticleMoAA Interview #30: Lesley Conner
Once Upon a Time, Princess Alethea traveled to a neighboring kingdom to have tea with her friends: Queen Quinn and the lady knight, Sir Bradley. “This tea is lovely,” Princess Alethea complimented her...
View ArticleMoAA Interview #31: Geoffrey Girard
There are some people in this life who are just meant to be present at pivotal moments, as if the universe put them there to witness that yes, this thing happened, and it happened to you. Those people...
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