SurLaLune 12 Week Giveaway: Winners 13, 14 & 15

Since Mermaid and Other Water Spirit Tales From Around the World will be out in just a few weeks, I thought I would give away three copies of it to three more giveaway entrants. So I chose three more winners and they are:

etaureau whose favorite fairy tale is Cupid and Psyche
Miranda whose favorite fairy tale is The Little Mermaid
Elizium whose favorite fairy tale is The Little Mermaid

And that's all for the giveaway for now. There will be more in the near future, so stay tuned.

In case you missed this from earlier:

I performed a fail with the recent SurLaLune Giveaway by not actually announcing and giving away each week. I've been spread too thin with the upcoming SurLaLune book releases. So today is devoted to giving away all the prizes. I generated random winners at Random.org based on date of entry and what should have been the corresponding week. So for several hours today, I will be announcing winners. I will also contact the winners by mail and must request a reply with mailing address by Tuesday, June 14 at 11:59 PM CST. If I don't hear from the winners by then, I will choose another.

SurLaLune 12 Week Giveaway: Winner 12

Winner 12 is JTulli whose favorite fairy tale is The Little Mermaid. She wins a paperback copy of Sleeping Beauties: Sleeping Beauty and Snow White Tales From Around the World.

Thanks everyone for visiting SurLaLune!

In case you missed this from earlier:

I performed a fail with the recent SurLaLune Giveaway by not actually announcing and giving away each week. I've been spread too thin with the upcoming SurLaLune book releases. So today is devoted to giving away all the prizes. I generated random winners at Random.org based on date of entry and what should have been the corresponding week. So for several hours today, I will be announcing winners. I will also contact the winners by mail and must request a reply with mailing address by Tuesday, June 14 at 11:59 PM CST. If I don't hear from the winners by then, I will choose another.

SurLaLune 12 Week Giveaway: Winner 11

Winner 11 is Kat who loves all fairy tales. She wins a paperback copy of Sleeping Beauties: Sleeping Beauty and Snow White Tales From Around the World.

Thanks everyone for visiting SurLaLune!

In case you missed this from earlier:

I performed a fail with the recent SurLaLune Giveaway by not actually announcing and giving away each week. I've been spread too thin with the upcoming SurLaLune book releases. So today is devoted to giving away all the prizes. I generated random winners at Random.org based on date of entry and what should have been the corresponding week. So for several hours today, I will be announcing winners. I will also contact the winners by mail and must request a reply with mailing address by Tuesday, June 14 at 11:59 PM CST. If I don't hear from the winners by then, I will choose another.

SurLaLune 12 Week Giveaway: Winner 10

Winner 10 is Amanda whose favorite fairy tale is Donkeyskin. She wins a paperback copy of Sleeping Beauties: Sleeping Beauty and Snow White Tales From Around the World.

Thanks everyone for visiting SurLaLune!

In case you missed this from earlier:

I performed a fail with the recent SurLaLune Giveaway by not actually announcing and giving away each week. I've been spread too thin with the upcoming SurLaLune book releases. So today is devoted to giving away all the prizes. I generated random winners at Random.org based on date of entry and what should have been the corresponding week. So for several hours today, I will be announcing winners. I will also contact the winners by mail and must request a reply with mailing address by Tuesday, June 14 at 11:59 PM CST. If I don't hear from the winners by then, I will choose another.

SurLaLune 12 Week Giveaway: Winner 9

Winner 9 is Siri whose favorite fairy tale is Beauty and the Beast. She wins a paperback copy of Sleeping Beauties: Sleeping Beauty and Snow White Tales From Around the World.

Thanks everyone for visiting SurLaLune!

In case you missed this from earlier:

I performed a fail with the recent SurLaLune Giveaway by not actually announcing and giving away each week. I've been spread too thin with the upcoming SurLaLune book releases. So today is devoted to giving away all the prizes. I generated random winners at Random.org based on date of entry and what should have been the corresponding week. So for several hours today, I will be announcing winners. I will also contact the winners by mail and must request a reply with mailing address by Tuesday, June 14 at 11:59 PM CST. If I don't hear from the winners by then, I will choose another.

SurLaLune 12 Week Giveaway: Winner 8

Winner 8 is Kar whose favorite fairy tale is Beauty and the Beast. She wins a paperback copy of National Dreams: The Remaking of Fairy Tales in Nineteenth-Century England by Jennifer Schacker.

Thanks everyone for visiting SurLaLune!

In case you missed this from earlier:

I performed a fail with the recent SurLaLune Giveaway by not actually announcing and giving away each week. I've been spread too thin with the upcoming SurLaLune book releases. So today is devoted to giving away all the prizes. I generated random winners at Random.org based on date of entry and what should have been the corresponding week. So for several hours today, I will be announcing winners. I will also contact the winners by mail and must request a reply with mailing address by Tuesday, June 14 at 11:59 PM CST. If I don't hear from the winners by then, I will choose another.

SurLaLune 12 Week Giveaway: Winner 7

Winner 7 is DMCordell whose favorite fairy tale is Little Red Riding Hood. She wins a copy of Twelve Dancing Princesses Tales From Around the World.

Thanks everyone for visiting SurLaLune!

In case you missed this from earlier:

I performed a fail with the recent SurLaLune Giveaway by not actually announcing and giving away each week. I've been spread too thin with the upcoming SurLaLune book releases. So today is devoted to giving away all the prizes. I generated random winners at Random.org based on date of entry and what should have been the corresponding week. So for several hours today, I will be announcing winners. I will also contact the winners by mail and must request a reply with mailing address by Tuesday, June 14 at 11:59 PM CST. If I don't hear from the winners by then, I will choose another.

SurLaLune 12 Week Giveaway: Winner 6

Winner 6 is Lisa whose favorite fairy tale is Snow White and Rose Red. She wins a copy of Twelve Dancing Princesses Tales From Around the World.

Thanks everyone for visiting SurLaLune!

In case you missed this from earlier:

I performed a fail with the recent SurLaLune Giveaway by not actually announcing and giving away each week. I've been spread too thin with the upcoming SurLaLune book releases. So today is devoted to giving away all the prizes. I generated random winners at Random.org based on date of entry and what should have been the corresponding week. So for several hours today, I will be announcing winners. I will also contact the winners by mail and must request a reply with mailing address by Tuesday, June 14 at 11:59 PM CST. If I don't hear from the winners by then, I will choose another.

SurLaLune 12 Week Giveaway: Winner 5

Winner 5 is Easter whose favorite fairy tale is East of the Sun, West of the Moon. She wins a copy of Twelve Dancing Princesses Tales From Around the World.

Thanks everyone for visiting SurLaLune!

In case you missed this from earlier:

I performed a fail with the recent SurLaLune Giveaway by not actually announcing and giving away each week. I've been spread too thin with the upcoming SurLaLune book releases. So today is devoted to giving away all the prizes. I generated random winners at Random.org based on date of entry and what should have been the corresponding week. So for several hours today, I will be announcing winners. I will also contact the winners by mail and must request a reply with mailing address by Tuesday, June 14 at 11:59 PM CST. If I don't hear from the winners by then, I will choose another.

SurLaLune 12 Week Giveaway: Winner 4

Winner 4 is BookGirl whose favorite fairy tale is East of the Sun, West of the Moon. She wins a hardcover copy of Toads and Diamonds by Heather Tomlinson.

Thanks everyone for visiting SurLaLune!

In case you missed this from earlier:

I performed a fail with the recent SurLaLune Giveaway by not actually announcing and giving away each week. I've been spread too thin with the upcoming SurLaLune book releases. So today is devoted to giving away all the prizes. I generated random winners at Random.org based on date of entry and what should have been the corresponding week. So for several hours today, I will be announcing winners. I will also contact the winners by mail and must request a reply with mailing address by Tuesday, June 14 at 11:59 PM CST. If I don't hear from the winners by then, I will choose another.

SurLaLune 12 Week Giveaway: Winner 3

Winner 3 is Eve whose favorite fairy tale is Little Red Riding Hood. She wins a copy of New Orleans Museum of Art: Dreams Come True: Art of the Classic Fairy Tales from the Walt Disney Studio.

Thanks everyone for visiting SurLaLune!

In case you missed this from earlier:

I performed a fail with the recent SurLaLune Giveaway by not actually announcing and giving away each week. I've been spread too thin with the upcoming SurLaLune book releases. So today is devoted to giving away all the prizes. I generated random winners at Random.org based on date of entry and what should have been the corresponding week. So for several hours today, I will be announcing winners. I will also contact the winners by mail and must request a reply with mailing address by Tuesday, June 14 at 11:59 PM CST. If I don't hear from the winners by then, I will choose another.

SurLaLune 12 Week Giveaway: Winner 2

I performed a fail with the recent SurLaLune Giveaway by not actually announcing and giving away each week. I've been spread too thin with the upcoming SurLaLune book releases. So today is devoted to giving away all the prizes. I generated random winners at Random.org based on date of entry and what should have been the corresponding week. So for several hours today, I will be announcing winners. I will also contact the winners by mail and must request a reply with mailing address by Tuesday, June 14 at 11:59 PM CST. If I don't hear from the winners by then, I will choose another.

Winner 2 is Heather whose favorite fairy tale is Beauty and the Beast. She wins a copy of New Orleans Museum of Art: Dreams Come True: Art of the Classic Fairy Tales from the Walt Disney Studio.

Thanks everyone for visiting SurLaLune!

Happy Dance! The Return of Fairytale Reflections at SMoST

    

When Katherine Langrish announced several days ago that Fairytale Reflections would be returning, I was quite thrilled. And then she announced it was returning with a contribution from Terri Windling, well, I was even happier if that was possible.

Fairytale Reflections (22) Terri Windling is now up and ready for your reading and fairy tale fulfillment. As always Katherine shares a wonderful introduction followed by Terri's personal essay about the impact of fairy tales in her own life. Terri has long been a champion for fairy tales and has led the way into making it a regular fantasy subgenre. The fairy tale series she edited as well as her fairy tale anthology series coedited with Ellen Datlow fed my hungering soul before Harry Potter and Twilight made fantasy bestselling and "normal."

Here are the first few paragraphs and then you can simply click through and read the rest.

I've been asked to reflect on fairy tales – which, as it happens, is something that I've been doing my entire professional life: thirty years of championing re-told fairy tales as a literary art form. I've reflected so long, and written so much, on the fairy tales that have meant the most to me that my difficulty now is in finding a new approach, a new pathway into this old, old territory. And so I'm going to start by telling you a story. It begins, of course, Once Upon a Time.

Once upon a time there was a girl who was forced to flee her childhood home. Why? Let’s never mind that now. Perhaps her parents were too poor to keep her. Perhaps her mother was an ogre or a witch. Perhaps her father had promised her to a troll, a tyrant, or a beast. She left home with the clothes on her back, and soon she was tired, hungry, and cold. As night fell, she took shelter in a desolate graveyard thick with nettles and briars. Beyond the graves was a humpbacked hill and in the side of the hill was a door. The girl walked towards the door and saw a golden key standing in its lock. She turned the key, opened the door, and crossed over the threshold….

I can still remember that moonlit night, but I don’t remember how old I was -- only that I was past the age when a girl should still believe in magic. Cold and quietly miserable in a childhood that seemed never-ending, I sat hunkered down in the grass among the gravestones of my grandfather’s church, trying to conjure a portal to a magic realm by sheer force of will. Like many children, I longed to discover a door to Faerie, a road to Oz, a wardrobe leading to Narnia, and I wanted to believe that if I wished with all my strength and all my will then surely a door would open for me. Surely they would let me in.