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  • Kate's Picks: The Fairy Tale Magazine's ZAZZLE Store

    I genuinely love her work, especially “Moonrise” and “Moon Maiden.” If Zazzle isn’t your thing, then please check out our shop here on this site. The pictures you see here are for sale in our shop as digital downloads and are featured on Zazzle merchandise I hope you find something that enchants you! Kate

  • Book Review: Magic Casements by Pamela Sherwood

    This is a solid group of stories overall, but I did have favorites, including “The Knight of the Gillyflower I also loved “The Magic Stove,” because it’s told from the point of view of the stove, and I love that I didn’t love every story, of course, because that’s the nature of such collections. And, while there are stories I didn’t love, there isn’t a true dud in the collection. I will definitely be on the lookout for other work by Sherwood.

  • Kate's Picks: A Bit of British Reading

    So I was sad when the Queen died, and the events surrounding her death brought me back to reading—as I love reading actual history but especially love historical novels. I first discovered them in the book Katherine, by Anya Seton, and I’ve never looked back. To find her books, just check out her Goodreads page. I hope you’ll find this recommendation useful in this time of historical change in the UK.

  • Throwback Thursday: Herbaceous Citadel by Avra Margariti

    When I was the baker and the butcher’s daughter I never once visited the forest where lost princes or When I was my parents’ child, I shied away from the city, with its dubious characters and roaring automobiles After watching me work with gimlet gaze, she left me a book, although I told her I could knead dough I dressed my blisters in natural salve and gauze, my scratches I smeared with honey. I stepped farther into the pharmacopoetic altar, the witch welcoming me inside her herbaceous citadel

  • Book Review: The Gravity of Existence by Christins Sng

    Although I was less interested in the alien and apocalyptic poems, I delighted in her series of fairy I gasped and laughed at her simple but powerful rendition of “Goldilocks and the Three Bears” which reads In one of my favorites, “A Better World”, Sng writes “I cast a magic spell / To manifest my grief / Creating You can pre-order a copy of the book HERE. She lives, happily ever after, with her husband and three sons in a house filled with fairy tale books

  • Review by Kelly Jarvis: Smoke, Steel, and Ivy by Amy Trent

    In order to protect her sisters from bad marriages and find her happily-ever-after with the man she loves Trent examines lesser known tales in her work, following her Twelve Dancing Princesses inspired novel I loved this book! You can find it here . Her first novella, Selkie Moon , comes out in 2025. her at https://kellyjarviswriter.com/

  • Throwback Thursday: Persephone Refracted by Gail Kathleen Jardine

    But I walk more coldly, tuck my dreams back (I carry them, sure they can’t carry me) too bright for marking I’ve such a power of formality that I must wield and yield to, so tell, Sun who begs the honor of my presence, what use have I for joy, for endless dance? flitting, but not to death, not petrified— one can move and yet not vanish—can change— for all my frowns, I Her poetry has appeared in Songs of Eretz, Octavos, and Sylvia Magazine.

  • Kate's Pick: The Black Forager

    This week's pick: THE BLACK FORAGER Here’s the first of what I hope will be many of “Kate’s Picks.” I was raised to shop and to consume with care and intuition (thanks Mom!) , and I greatly enjoy sharing my finds. “For those not familiar with the term, Nelson says foraging is essentially ‘a very fun way to say, I eat plants that do not belong to me and I teach other people how to do the same thing.’”

  • Throwback Thursday: Applesauce by Marsheila Rockwell

    I am selling these lovely apples, the finest—” the witch began, her voice crackling with illusory age as she uncovered her wares. This was not how she had envisioned her encounter with her runaway stepdaughter taking place. her true identity from one who knew her so well? girl hurried to clean it up, the one who fancied himself a healer prescribed a concoction of common herbs

  • Kate's Picks: Ivory Tower Stationery

    I know it’s awfully close to Halloween for buying cards online, but this mashup of “The Fly” and a sweet My husband’s birthday is in early December, and I am buying thi Finally, although the card selection Here’s a delightful example: Fantastic cards are one of the most affordable luxuries out there.

  • Book Review: The Narrow Cage & Other Modern Fairy Tales by Vasily Eroshenko

    I loved this collection of fairy tales. I love you only. Indeed, her love was life itself, and brightly did I shine by it”. You can find the book here. And check out our SHOP PAGE with our all new DIGITAL DOWNLOADS HERE

  • Review by Kelly Jarvis: The Wrath of Peace or How the Wellikans Saved the World by Jack Zipes

    I truly enjoyed it and look forward to reading more of Anja and Zack’s adventures! You can find it here , and you can see The Fairy Tale Magazine's interview with Dr. Jack Zipes on our YouTube Channel here . Her debut novella, Selkie Moon , publishes in June, 2025. You can find her at Kellyjarviswriter.com .

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