Please welcome Marina Myles, our guest blogger, to The Roses of Prose!
Sleeping Beauty.
Beauty and the Wolf. Hansel and Gretel. These classic fairy tales evoke visions of
dark, gothic castles or of creepy shadowed forests. They also bring to mind the
fight between good and evil as well as visions of wicked witches and
frightening beasts.
Like
many of us, I loved fairy tales as a child. I had my mother read them to me
over and over again. That’s why their timelessness is ingrained in my
brain—having secured a special place in my childhood memory bank.
But
what makes them still appeal to modern readers?
There
is plenty of evidence that they do. Consider all the current television shows
and motion pictures based on fairy tales. From Grimm to Once Upon A Time
to Snow White and the Huntsman to Maleficent starring Angelina Jolie,
there is still a strong market for retellings.
To
answer the question, I believe fairy tales appeal to modern readers thanks to
the idea that love conquers all. Look around us. There is so much stress and
tragedy in the world. We all need a little hope and romantic salvation…a little
escapism, as it were. The other day, I turned on the news and watched a
horrific story about the violent murder of a college girl. Following the story
was an account of a restaurant customer offering to pay his waitress’s college
tuition after hearing about her monumental student loans. He was her fairy
godfather!! I was so relieved that a positive story followed the tragic one. It
actually changed my attitude for the morning.
What
could be more positive than a fairy tale? We are able to get lost in the magic
of them, cheer for the hero, sympathize with the heroine, and shout with joy
when the prince and the princess end up with one another. We know there will be
a happily-ever-after, but isn’t that why we read them?
I
hope readers enjoy all of the stories in my Cursed Princes series. They contain
a little mystery, suspense, and action, but you are guaranteed to get your positive
ending!
Thanks
for having me!
Marina Myles’s love of books
began as soon as she read her first fairy tale. During her college days in
Dallas, she received degrees in English Literature and Communications—and
enjoyed the unique experience of being a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader. Now that she
lives under the sunny skies of Arizona, she hasn’t left her glamorous life
behind completely. After all, she gets to divide her time between her loving
family, her loyal Maltese, and worlds filled with fiery—but not easily
attained—love affairs.
Visit her at www.marinamyles.com
Represented by Louise Fury of The Bent Agency
Works published by Kensington: The Cursed
Princes Series
BEAUTY AND
THE WOLF
SNOW WHITE
AND THE VAMPIRE
A WARLOCK’S
DANCE (novella)
SLEEPING
BEAUTY AND THE DEMON
CHRISTMAS AT
THORNCLIFF TOWERS (novella)
CINDERELLA
AND THE GHOST
