Mr. Krimbret was a man of his word. Etta picked her head up when the phone rang minutes past 10:00 AM. Krimbret had arrived at the Odalin manse and gone over the items bequeathed to her. He was ready with his bid. “I can give you $6,500 for the lot,” Krimbret said, “I’m not interested…
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Throwback Thursday | An AFTER THE HAPPILY EVER AFTER Excerpt: “Need to be Apart” by Jody Sollazzo
Don’t forget that AFTER THE HAPPILY EVER AFTER is half off for the rest of December to celebrate with Enchanted Quill Press during their Festive Fairytale Celebration! Enter to win a $100 Amazon gift card and check out all of the books and authors who made the giveaway possible. And now, for our regularly…
Festive Fairytale & Fantasy Book Fair |AFTER THE HAPPILY EVER AFTER December Sale
AFTER THE HAPPILY EVER AFTER is half off for the rest of December to celebrate with Enchanted Quill Press during their Festive Fairytale Celebration! Enter to win a $100 Amazon gift card and check out all of the books and authors who made the giveaway possible. And here’s a bonus excerpt for our Throwback Thursday…
Throwback Thursday | An AFTER THE HAPPILY EVER AFTER Excerpt: “Little Red Hunting Hood” by M. T. DeSantis
Seriously, this basket gets heavier every time. I enter grandmother’s cottage without knocking. Ten years ago, when I started bringing her food, she told me to just come in. I don’t argue with grandma, and it’s a good thing, considering what happened with the wolf. “Grandma.” I place the basket on the kitchen table. The…
Throwback Thursday | An AFTER THE HAPPILY EVER AFTER Excerpt: “Ten Days After the Happily Ever After” by Amelia Steiner
I smacked my knight in shining armor on the head with a heavy skillet. He wasn’t wearing his armor at the time so he grimaced, but I digress. On our wedding day, my father, the king, gave us a ton of gold, a full two thousand pounds worth. He also gave us a castle in a neighboring…
Throwback Thursday | An AFTER THE HAPPILY EVER AFTER Excerpt: “That Time He Had to Make Decisions” by Amanda Iles
Prince Phillip’s life used to be filled with action, adventure, heroism, and focused passion—all things he excelled at. He used to think himself the most fortunate prince. Then he made the mistake of finding the princess he’d spent years looking for, releasing her from a wicked enchantment with a one-sided kiss that felt pretty creepy,…
Throwback Thursday |An AFTER THE HAPPILY EVER AFTER Excerpt: “A Sleeve of Feathers” by Claudia Quint
“Stephen, how do you feel about living together with all six of Geileis’s brothers?” The well-intentioned doctor with her degrees framed and hanging on the wall, pulled down her glasses to stare at them, and Stephen leaned forward and fiddled with the cuffs of his shirt as though an animal were caught in his throat,…
Throwback Thursday | An AFTER THE HAPPILY EVER AFTER Excerpt: “It’s in Her Kiss” by Tiffany Michelle Brown
Delilah has developed a fetish of the human-who-was-once-an-amphibian variety. Her predilection has progressed into a full-fledged addiction as three or four times a week, the door to our flat bursts open and a new prime specimen drips pond water onto the Ikea rug in the foyer. Delilah wears a proud smile and clings to their…
Community Challenge and Giveaway!
Hello, amazing peoples! We’re readying for a celebration. After some bumps in the road, it’s time to get together and have a party. So, we’re hosting a small challenge. Y’all, this is for authors and readers, and we have a fun prize to commemorate all this love. First, the prize. We’re offering two tickets to…
Hoodwinked: Tricking students into having fun with fairy tales by Alisha Costanzo
When I was a teaching assistant, I taught an essay called the Adaptation/Variation, which allowed students to choose a text and change it in form, in character, in style, in any variety of means with one task in mind—interpretation. Most often, students chose fairy tales because they were familiar from their youth and had seen…
After the Happily Ever After Cupcakes! by Amanda Iles
In celebration of the release of Transmundane Press’s fractured fairy tale anthology, After the Happily Ever After, here is a recipe for delicious dark chocolate cupcakes with cream cheese icing. Ingredients Cupcakes 4 ounces unsweetened chocolate, chopped ¼ cup dark chocolate cocoa (I used Hershey’s Special Dark) 1 ¼ cups boiling water ¾ cup cake…
Magic, Adventure, and Wonder: launching the After the Happily Ever After anthology by Anthony S. Buoni
AFTER THE HAPPILY EVER AFTER: A COLLECTION OF FRACTURED FAIRY TALES is the third anthology that TRANSMUNDANE PRESS has produced. What started as a nagging “what if…” question that we tossed out into the sea of creators quickly mushroom clouded into our most complicated and challenging project to date. Based on our previous efforts—DISTORTED and…