I'm doing the Happy Dance! Love & Magick will be published on February 14, 2014.
This has been an exciting journey with my co-conspirators in putting together our Anthology.
Sarah Raplee has a grown up fairy tale in her story "Enchanted Protector".
Sarah's second story "CURSE OF THE NEAHKAHNIE TREASURE" is about a cursed treasure map, and the plot twist that breaks the curse I didn't see coming.
"Enchanted Protector" is a story about a Prince who has been cursed by a Nome.
H-m-m, I don't know about you, but I'm seeing a pattern here!
What is your favorite fairy tale?
Showing posts with label curses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label curses. Show all posts
Friday, February 7, 2014
Sunday, January 19, 2014
27 days to the Love & Magick Book Launch!
Two things inspired my second story in LOVE & MAGIC, titled The Curse of the Neahkahnie Treasure. My first inspiration came from my first trip on a sailboat. We sailed from the West Mooring Basin at historic Astoria, Oregon, seven miles down the great Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean. Astoria is my favorite small town, and its history and economy have been linked to the ocean for over two-hundred years.
The bow sussed through swells instead of roaring like a diesel engine. The experience was magical, so quiet that I heard wing flaps when a flock of pelicans took flight as we passed.
Never mind that I got seasick. Never mind that it was freezing cold for much of the sail. Never mind that we were crossing the Columbia River Bar into coastal waters so dangerous they are known as the Graveyard of the Pacific.
The forty-footer was a thing of beauty as sleek and graceful as a sailfish. The cabin below deck sported gorgious polished woodwork and shiny brass fittings.. The surrounding natural beauty touched my soul. I love adventure, and this was a whole new way to explore the sea. I walked on air for days after the sail.
A week later I wrote a flash fiction short story set at on a sailing vessel. I'd never written a historical, so I set the story in Astoria in 1871. When Judith Ashley, Diana McCollum and I later decided to collaborate on a collection of romantic short stories having paranormal, magical or mystical elements, I decided to lengthen my short-short story from 2,000 to 13,000 words and include the tale in the anthology. Readers had commented that they wanted me to expand the story.
My second source of inspiration for The Curse of the Neahkahnie Treasure is fodder for another blog post!
Thanks for reading. ~ Sarah Raplee
Two things inspired my second story in LOVE & MAGIC, titled The Curse of the Neahkahnie Treasure. My first inspiration came from my first trip on a sailboat. We sailed from the West Mooring Basin at historic Astoria, Oregon, seven miles down the great Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean. Astoria is my favorite small town, and its history and economy have been linked to the ocean for over two-hundred years.
The bow sussed through swells instead of roaring like a diesel engine. The experience was magical, so quiet that I heard wing flaps when a flock of pelicans took flight as we passed.
Never mind that I got seasick. Never mind that it was freezing cold for much of the sail. Never mind that we were crossing the Columbia River Bar into coastal waters so dangerous they are known as the Graveyard of the Pacific.
The forty-footer was a thing of beauty as sleek and graceful as a sailfish. The cabin below deck sported gorgious polished woodwork and shiny brass fittings.. The surrounding natural beauty touched my soul. I love adventure, and this was a whole new way to explore the sea. I walked on air for days after the sail.
A week later I wrote a flash fiction short story set at on a sailing vessel. I'd never written a historical, so I set the story in Astoria in 1871. When Judith Ashley, Diana McCollum and I later decided to collaborate on a collection of romantic short stories having paranormal, magical or mystical elements, I decided to lengthen my short-short story from 2,000 to 13,000 words and include the tale in the anthology. Readers had commented that they wanted me to expand the story.
My second source of inspiration for The Curse of the Neahkahnie Treasure is fodder for another blog post!
Thanks for reading. ~ Sarah Raplee
Sunday, January 12, 2014
34 days to the Love & Magick Book Launch!
Two things inspired my second story in LOVE & MAGIC, titled The Curse of the Neahkahnie Treasure. My first inspiration came from my first trip on a sailboat. We sailed from the West Mooring Basin at historic Astoria, Oregon, seven miles down the great Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean. Astoria is my favorite small town, and its history and economy have been linked to the ocean for over two-hundred years.
The bow sussed through swells instead of roaring like a diesel engine. The experience was magical, so quiet that I heard wing flaps when a flock of pelicans took flight as we passed.
Never mind that I got seasick. Never mind that it was freezing cold for much of the sail. Never mind that we were crossing the Columbia River Bar into coastal waters so dangerous they are known as the Graveyard of the Pacific.
The forty-footer was a thing of beauty as sleek and graceful as a sailfish. The cabin below deck sported gorgious polished woodwork and shiny brass fittings.. The surrounding natural beauty touched my soul. I love adventure, and this was a whole new way to explore the sea. I walked on air for days after the sail.
A week later I wrote a flash fiction short story set at on a sailing vessel. I'd never written a historical, so I set the story in Astoria in 1871. When Judith Ashley, Diana McCollum and I later decided to collaborate on a collection of romantic short stories having paranormal, magical or mystical elements, I decided to lengthen my short-short story from 2,000 to 13,000 words and include the tale in the anthology. Readers had commented that they wanted me to expand the story.
My second source of inspiration for The Curse of the Neahkahnie Treasure is fodder for another blog post!
Thanks for reading. ~ Sarah Raplee
Two things inspired my second story in LOVE & MAGIC, titled The Curse of the Neahkahnie Treasure. My first inspiration came from my first trip on a sailboat. We sailed from the West Mooring Basin at historic Astoria, Oregon, seven miles down the great Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean. Astoria is my favorite small town, and its history and economy have been linked to the ocean for over two-hundred years.
The bow sussed through swells instead of roaring like a diesel engine. The experience was magical, so quiet that I heard wing flaps when a flock of pelicans took flight as we passed.
Never mind that I got seasick. Never mind that it was freezing cold for much of the sail. Never mind that we were crossing the Columbia River Bar into coastal waters so dangerous they are known as the Graveyard of the Pacific.
The forty-footer was a thing of beauty as sleek and graceful as a sailfish. The cabin below deck sported gorgious polished woodwork and shiny brass fittings.. The surrounding natural beauty touched my soul. I love adventure, and this was a whole new way to explore the sea. I walked on air for days after the sail.
A week later I wrote a flash fiction short story set at on a sailing vessel. I'd never written a historical, so I set the story in Astoria in 1871. When Judith Ashley, Diana McCollum and I later decided to collaborate on a collection of romantic short stories having paranormal, magical or mystical elements, I decided to lengthen my short-short story from 2,000 to 13,000 words and include the tale in the anthology. Readers had commented that they wanted me to expand the story.
My second source of inspiration for The Curse of the Neahkahnie Treasure is fodder for another blog post!
Thanks for reading. ~ Sarah Raplee
Thursday, January 9, 2014
37 Days and Counting Until Our Book Launch!
Love & Magick is a collection of mystical stories of romance. Why mystical romance? My thesaurus tells me mystical = spiritual, magical, supernatural, transcendent, preternatural. Our stories include elements of fairytales, alternative spirituality, restless spirits, curses, enchantments, witches, wise women second sight...
Mystical seems to fit, doesn't it?
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