Mask of the Wolf

 

Last story -- 3 more days until release day.

TALES FROM THE FOREST: new takes on Red Riding Hood

RED WOLF

Michelle L. Levigne

An Enchanted Castle Archives story

A girl in a red cloak, a woodsman, and a wolf enter the enchanted forest.

Who is chasing whom?

Why do they seek the Beastly Beauty's wolf mask?

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Release Day is Coming!

 

We're almost to RELEASE DAY!

2 stories and 5 days to go until you meet a whole new breed of Red Riding Hood stories!

CRIMSON SPY

Jessica Noelle 

A red cloak that protects against evil magic.

A vengeful enemy.

A curse to turn beauty into beast.

Can love find a way?

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If Granny Ain't Happy ...

 

6 days -- 3 stories to go

Tales of Red Riding Hood that aren't your granny's fairytales!

WOODLAND CRAVINGS

Rachel A. Greco

While she was falling in love, her grandmother changed.

Walking to grandmother's house no longer gives joy but rather dread.

Will the hunger of the wolf be her doom or their salvation?

Releasing May 1

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PLUS: Save $1 on all the other Fairytale Anthology and Classic Monster Anthology books in stock -- in print and ebook, whatever is available.

When Your Beauty is the Beast -- Tales from the Tower -- Perchance to Dream -- Moonlight and Claws -- Who's the Monster? -- Don't Go In the Water.

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The Ghost of Red Riding Hood?

 

THE NIGHT OF THE MINDBENDER

Stoney M. Setzer 

A Sardis County story!

The "wolfman" sees a vision in red.

Is she his wife, returned from the dead?

9 days -- 4 stories to go!

Red Riding Hood will never be the same when our authors are through.

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It's been a while since I did a book report. Sorry.

Been crazy-busy with the Ye Olde Dragon's Library blog, and all sorts of editing assignments for Mt. Zion Ridge Press, as well as prepping several of my own books for publication, both new releases and re-releases.

Here's one of the recently read books:

BECOMING MRS. LEWIS

Patti Callahan

This is a book I've had sitting in my to-be-read bookshelf for a long time. Far too long! 

I knew about the romance of CS Lewis and Joy Davidman, from several different viewpoints in various books, as well as two movies, both titled SHADOWLANDS. 

This novel is told from Joy's viewpoint. It quotes from many of her writings, essays and poems and letters, and follows her spiritual awakening, her personal struggles, and her search for God.  Her long correspondence with CS Lewis grew into a deep friendship, a shared hunger for spiritual things, a mentorship on his part. She helped to edit several of his books, and was a major influence in his novel TIL WE HAVE FACES, the story of Psyche and Cupid, as told by Psyche's sister.

If you're a Lewis-phile or like me a Free Narnian, this is a book you need to read.

Life Imitates Art?

 

DRESS REHEARSAL
Jim Doran
A high school drama production of fairytales becomes just a little too "real."

11 days -- 5 stories to go.
Ready for a new angle on Red Riding Hood?
13 authors offer 12 stories to make you laugh, shiver, and go, "Hmm..."

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Coming May 1 in paper and ebook.

Curses Foiled -- Again

 

Releasing May 1

6 stories and 13 days to go.

We return to a more traditional setting  for Red Riding Hood....

THE CURSE

Angela R. Watts 

A curse has brought a werewolf to the forest.

To save her grandmother and village, she must brave the woods at night to fetch a healer.

Can she save her cursed friend as well?

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Update: What Am I Reading? What are YOU reading? (No, really, I want to know -- let's talk!!)

 

So, I have a confession to make:

I READ MORE THAN ONE BOOK AT A TIME!

What I mean by that is, I have different books in different formats for different times of the day.

Sometimes it takes me weeks to read a book. It all depends on what mood I'm in, how busy I am, if I'm driving, if I'm relaxing, if I'm waiting somewhere, if I'm totally brain-dead at the end of the day and couldn't read the instructions to open a jar of aspirin if my life depended on it ....

Here's what I'm reading right now:

THE WONDERLAND TRIALS

Sara Ella

Audiobook

This is usually for when I'm driving, or I'm walking around a store, shopping.

Take elements from ALICE IN WONDERLAND and mix them with a touch of THE HUNGER GAMES, throw in some racial oppression, a totalitarian state, magic, stolen identities ... Whew! I'm only 2 hours into the story, and I wish I had more errands to run so I can keep listening!!!

THE CARPET PEOPLE

Terry Pratchett

This is on my tablet, to read during mental health breaks during the day, or when I'm relaxing between a full day of work at the computer and dinnertime.

Often, I get a chapter in at bedtime.

Which conflicts with the third book on this list.

Terry Pratchett is the inspired, creatively insane author of the Discworld books. That ought to tell you enough right there about his wry British sense of humor -- and if you don't know Discworld, get out there and start reading!!

The carpet people are ... teeny, tiny, microscopic tribes of people who live in ... wait for it ... a carpet! Wacky, deliciously fun, with political commentary however you interpret it.

MIRACLE ON 10TH STREET

Madelaine L'Engle

This is ... gasp! ... a PAPER book. It sits on the table next to my bed. I should be reading a couple chapters every night, but ... yeah, I yield to temptation and indulge in wacky humor some nights instead of exploring a spiritual plain.

From the title, can you guess this is a CHRISTMAS book?

Yeah, I'm a little behind on my seasonal reading.

But y'know what? We should celebrate Christmas all year long. (that's a blatant reference to A CHRISTMAS CAROLE.....)

Sometimes it's Good to be a Wolf ...

 

15 days - 7 stories until release day.

WOLVES AMONG THE LAMBS

Deborah Cullins Smith 

Her sister has been taken. 

A veteran goes hunting.

A wolf goes disguised as an innocent lamb to destroy the predators from within...

Red Riding Hood wasn't so helpless after all ...

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Tales from the Forest: A new RED

 

17 days and 8 authors to go until the May 1 release

Turning Red Riding Hood inside out and upside down.

KELLI AND KIRMIZI

Michelle Houston

2 cousins, as different as day and night.  

Beauty and wolf.

Could they break the fairytale mold the world tried to force on them?

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Update! Long-awaited sequel to THE KINDNESS CURSE.

 So, what's up around here lately?

Been kind of busy ....

I'm delighted to announce that MAJJIAN SPRINGS, the long-awaited, long-delayed sequel to THE KINDNESS CURSE, will release in print, ebook and audio on June 1.

What's it about?

Happily ever after is never easy …

 

Formerly an evil queen, Merrigan has reformed. Reunited with her childhood true love, Prince Bryan, she sets out to return to her father's kingdom, to break the curse she caused to fall on it.

In every kingdom along the way, Merrigan and Bryan, and their friends, Bib the magic book and Crystal the magic mirror, face magical puzzles and curses that must be lifted.

A league of disgruntled, elitist majjians are turning happily-ever-afters into curses, in their quest to control all the magic in the world. Talking frogs and swans are vanishing. The majjian springs are drying up, threatening the source of magic everywhere.

 

19 Days and 9 Stories Left to Tantalize

 

You'll never see Red Riding Hood the same again ...

Countdown: 19 days & 9 stories to hear about.
Anthology of Red Riding Hood-inspired stories.

A CACTUS AMONG WOLVES
Yvonne McArthur
A motorcycle-riding granny and her grandkids on an outing filled with explosions, critters, wolves on wheels, and painful memories.

Release: 5/1/2024

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Counting down: 21 days left until TALES FROM THE FOREST

 

21 days left.

12 stories, 13 authors.

Coming May 1.

These aren't your granny's fairytales.

Just ask Red Riding Hood.

THE WAYS OF A WOLF

Lindsi McIntyre

Wolves can wear many faces, some quite charming.

How does an old woman save her village when no one will listen to the old stories that hold too much frightening truth?

Save $1 off the ebook 4/23-4/30

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Ready for Red Riding Hood? Fairytale Anthology 4 is coming May 1

 

COUNTDOWN: 23 days left.

Releasing n May 1: 12 new versions of Red Riding Hood. Some dark, some twisted, some funny, and some facing the ugliness of our modern, un-magical world.

FACE THE WOLF
Kathleen Bird

Late night on a college campus.
A brute who doesn't know the meaning of love.
An athlete who can't outrun her fears.
An hero with a new kind of "axe."

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The Storytellers Episodes are Baaaaack!

 

Today on the Ye Olde Dragon's Library storytelling podcast, we have a new storytellers episode. It's been a long wait, but we're back to chatting with authors again.

For the next couple of months, we'll be chatting with authors who have stories in the Fairytale and Classic Monster anthologies here at Ye Olde Dragon Books.

Today's podcast features: Jordan Campbell, Deborah Cullins Smith, Yvonne McArthur, Jessi Roberts, and Meaghan Ward. They'll be chatting about their stories in the anthologies, along with current and future projects, where they get inspiration, and how they approach the challenge of creating their stories.

Find these authors online:

Jessi Roberts: The comic:  https://theredtattoo.the-comic.org/comics/

Amazon:  https://www.amazon.com/stores/Jessi-L.-Roberts/author/B07TF9RV3V

 

Yvonne McArthur: YvonneMcArthur.com.

 

 

Meaghan Ward:

"A Good Night to Be Alive" in Stories that Sing Anthology - This was also turned into a podcast and if anyone would like to listen to it for free they can find it at:  https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/havok-story-podcast/episodes/A-Good-Night-to-Be-Alive-ebb7q5 

"Iron Hood" in Casting Call Anthology.

"The Princess of Callanway Broch" in Tales from the Tower

"The Weight of Raven Feathers" in Perchance To Dream

Connect on instagram @meaghaneward .

 

Jordan Campbell: Amazon.com: Jordan Campbell: books, biography, latest update

 

Deborah Cullins Smith: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/deborahcullinssmith

On Amazon, and YeOldeDragonBooks.com

 

New Release: THE BEASTLY BEAUTY, Enchanted Castle Archives Book 2

 

New release today!

THE BEASTLY BEAUTY is the sequel to LIARS' QUEST.

NOW AVAILABLE in paper, ebook, and audiobook, from Ye Olde Dragon Books, at the Ye Olde Dragon Books website or your favorite online retailer.

To celebrate, ALL the Enchanted Castle Archives stories are on sale, for a limited time.

Save $2 on the full-length novels (BEASTLY BEAUTY and LIARS' QUEST) or $1 on the short stories, in both ebook and audiobook, at the Ye Olde Dragon Books storefront.

What's the series about?

THE ENCHANTED CASTLE ARCHIVES

 

The enchanted castle lies somewhere in the enchanted forest, which touches all kingdoms.

At one time or another. There's no predicting when the portal into the forest will open.

Getting in is difficult.

Getting out is even harder.

The castle moves about in the forest, needing an anchor. And a princess.

The forest moves from kingdom to kingdom.

Until two wanderers stumble inside, and meet in their separate quests to break curses and find answers.

 

 

LIARS' QUEST

 

An orphan servant, Ash successfully masqueraded as a boy until she was nearly 15 -- then a spoiled brat nobleman's daughter accused her of assault.

A quixotic justiciar got involved, and with both girls revealed as liars, sentenced them to a quest. Ostensibly, the one who succeeded in accomplishing the list of deeds would be proven the innocent, injured party.

Ash fled to avoid being captured by the spoiled brat's servants and forced to do all the quest work for both of them. Along the way, she stumbled in and out of trouble and learned a great deal of magic -- including the magic born into her blood.

Her traveling companions: Fang the bunny, who complicated things when he was only partially turned into a vampire, and a spirit ring, to allow the justiciar to spy on her adventures. When the ring decided to become Ash's friend, then things got interesting.

 

THE BEASTLY BEAUTY

 

Ash was warned, and she tried to be careful, but with the Purple Sky magicians hunting her to carry out Lathia's vendetta, there were only so many options open to her. The magic awakening in her blood and breaking free of the binding spells of her enemies made her even more vulnerable to trouble. And attractive to new allies and new enemies.

When she rode through the wrong magical doorway and found herself in the enchanted forest, Ash knew she needed to find her way out as quickly as possible. The enchanted castle, however, had other ideas. It needed a princess, and clever, resourceful, magical Ash was just what it had been waiting for. She refused to be a princess, but the castle apparently wasn't listening.

As she gained new allies and discovered just what clever traps awaited her, Ash settled in for a battle of wills that might occupy her for the rest of her life. Was it any wonder that when her only freedom lay in being beastly, she dove into the magic and the mask … and maybe enjoyed it just a little too much?