Fairy Tales Archives

INTERVIEW: Goldie Chan Has a Duckie Time Talking Bird Puns in Betty and Veronica: Fairy Tales

January 2, 2025

In the following interview, WWAC talks bird puns and being an outsider in the newest Archie-verse tale – Betty and Veronica: Fairy Tales #1 by Goldie Chan.

Bookmarked, Reviews

2022 Hugo Awards: A Spindle Splintered/Elder Race

August 4, 2022

Having covered the Best Short Story and Best Novelette categories, WWAC’s review series on the 2022 Hugo Award finalists now reaches Best Novella. This post shall discuss two of the six contenders: Alix E. Harrow’s A Spindle Splintered and Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Elder Race…

Comics, Indie & Small Press, Interviews

INTERVIEW: So Much to See in Jessi Sheron’s The Sea in You

June 1, 2022

Lured into the ocean by the hypnotic melodies of a mythical creature, 15-year-old Corinth finds herself swept away in the most unlikely friendship. Reimagining The Little Mermaid fairy tale with a properly terrifying sea creature and a relationship that goes far deeper than yearning from a ...

Bookmarked, Events, Reviews

2021 Hugo Award Reviews: Metal Like Blood in the Dark/Open House on Haunted Hill

August 31, 2021

Welcome to the third installment of WWAC’s coverage of the 2021 Hugo Award prose fiction finalists. This post shall examine two more contenders for Best Short Story: “Metal Like Blood in the Dark” by T. Kingfisher and “Open House on Haunted Hill” by John Wiswell…

Bookmarked, Events, Reviews

2021 Hugo Award Reviews: The Mermaid Astronaut/A Guide for Working Breeds

August 26, 2021

We continue our coverage of the 2021 Hugo Award finalists with a look at two more contenders in the Best Short Story category: “The Mermaid Astronaut” by Yoon Ha Lee and “A Guide for Working Breeds” by Vina Jie-Min Prasad… “The Mermaid Astronaut” by Yoon Ha Lee ...

Comics, Reviews

The Exquisitely Beautiful Darkness of Snow, Glass, Apples

December 10, 2019

Snow, Glass, Apples Colleen Doran (artist), Neil Gaiman (writer), Val Trullinger (flatter) Dark Horse Comics August 2019 Disney has mastered the art of reimagining fairy tales to the point where many believe their versions to be true to the originals, but it’s always a delight to find ...

Essays

Beyond Fairy Tale Remixes: Delving Deeper into RWBY

May 14, 2017

Fairy tale retellings are nothing new. Countless original—and not-so-original—renditions of Snow White, Beauty and the Beast, and Little Red Riding Hood have graced literature and film for decades. Some industrious souls have even tossed characters from different fairy tales into the same ...

Reviews

Spindle Fire: Interesting Ideas, Poor and Problematic Execution

April 21, 2017

Spindle Fire Lexa Hillyer HarperCollins April 11 2017 A review copy was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Spindle Fire by Lexa Hillyer is described by Publisher HarperCollins as “enthralling” and a “wholly original reimagining of a classic faerie ...

Interviews

Sing Once Again with S. Jae-Jones of Wintersong’s Strange Duet

January 31, 2017

Every year, there’s a novel that catches my eye and I know, without a doubt, that it will be different. Not just new, not just exciting, but the kind of different that wrecks you just a little bit, draws you into the deep of the forest and brings you back changed. In fall 2016, I found a ...

Reviews

Stealing Snow: Are You a Good Trope or a Bad Trope?

January 3, 2017

Stealing Snow Danielle Paige Bloomsbury Publishing September 2016 Disclaimer: A review copy was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. This review may also contain spoilers.

Fairy Tales

INTERVIEW: Goldie Chan Has a Duckie Time Talking Bird Puns in Betty and Veronica: Fairy Tales

2022 Hugo Awards: A Spindle Splintered/Elder Race

INTERVIEW: So Much to See in Jessi Sheron’s The Sea in You

2021 Hugo Award Reviews: Metal Like Blood in the Dark/Open House on Haunted Hill

2021 Hugo Award Reviews: The Mermaid Astronaut/A Guide for Working Breeds

The Exquisitely Beautiful Darkness of Snow, Glass, Apples

Beyond Fairy Tale Remixes: Delving Deeper into RWBY

Spindle Fire: Interesting Ideas, Poor and Problematic Execution

Sing Once Again with S. Jae-Jones of Wintersong’s Strange Duet

Stealing Snow: Are You a Good Trope or a Bad Trope?

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