“Why are you into fairy tales? What is so intriguing about kid stories?” It’s a fair question, so here’s my answer.

I’ve always enjoyed thinking about the statement “writers write what they know”. I like to take that sentiment further. I truly believe that all writers sprinkle their writing with tiny bits of the truth. It may not always be on purpose, and sometimes they may not see the real world connections, but I feel like it’s always there somehow. That little bit of truth can be powerful or inspirational.

I’ll preface this next part with a statement of my own – my brain is a strange place sometimes. Back to the point. Fairy tales were created long ago to teach children important life lessons. But my brain started wondering, was that all? Or was it also because these story tellers of old had met such unique characters in their travels that they had to write stories about them.

Was there a Little Red Riding Hood in some small mountain village that, maybe, was hidden from the rest of the planet. Maybe a pair of brothers found it by accident during their travels, and upon leaving the village they decided they needed to use what they had seen as inspiration for their stories.

I know it’s really far fetched, but these are the thoughts that gave life to Awakening Fate almost a decade ago. If these people did exist a lifetime ago, it would stand to reason that it’s possible they have real life descendants walking around in our society today. These descendants wouldn’t even know who they were related to, but they would be carrying around the blood of fairy tale characters, and that idea is just wonderful and magical enough, I had to write a story about it.

Awakening Fate is book one in a trilogy, and the cast of characters that the reader doesn’t meet until book two is full of ‘what if this character existed’. And I’ll state it here, I understand that I use the Grimm brothers as a basis for the story, but they didn’t write all the fairy tales and they didn’t reference all of the characters I used in my books. I know that, but I know some people will point it out. That’s okay, just think of them as a jumping off point.

Anyways, Awakening Fate will be out March 5th, 2024 on Amazon, and maybe some other places, too. I hope it finds it’s audience.

Thanks for being here at the start of it all.