A Beauty and the beast retelling: review of Beast of the Night by Ee Rawls

When I was twelve years old, my next door neighbor friend let me borrow her copy of Beauty by Robin McKinley. I devoured the book and when I finished, I flipped back to the first page and read it again. I don’t know that I’ve ever done that with another book. That was my first experience reading a fairy tale retelling, and from that moment on, I was hooked.

Because of that experience, and then my own experience re-telling the story for the Rooglewood contest, Beauty and the Beast is a fairy tale that is quite dear to my heart.

Jenelle SchmidtJune 11, 2020 Comments

Bringing You a Magical New Story for Summer...

Today is the day!

Today I get to reveal the cover for my newest story! You may remember me talking about this story last year when I wrote it in a whirlwind after deciding to put my plans for finishing the final Turrim Archive book on hold for a bit.

Well, that book is finished, edited, polished, and just about ready for readers! And today, you get to see the beautiful cover, designed by the amazing and incomparable Savannah Jezowski of Dragonpen Designs!

Jenelle SchmidtJune 1, 2020 Comments

Three Bookish Things Tag

It’s been a while since I did a tag, and I have this whole back-logged list of them, either ones I’ve been actually tagged in, or ones I’ve seen and thought, “that looks cool, I’m stealing it!” So today, I’m going to do one!

I can’t, erm… remember if anyone actually tagged me for this one. But I remember I first saw it at Short and Snappy over a year ago. (yeah, my tag back log goes back years… why do you ask?)

TagsJenelle SchmidtMay 29, 2020Tag Comments

Title Reveal

Some of you may remember about a year ago when I wrote THIS BLOG POST about a story idea that kind of came out of nowhere and interrupted all my other writing plans?

Well, that story (which up until now I’ve been referring to by its title place holder “Summer Princess”) is edited and uploaded and ready to publish and today I’m revealing the actual title:

Jenelle SchmidtMay 26, 2020 Comments

Moonscript Release and Blog Tour

“It is said that Darkness is empty and whatever vanishes into its depths is lost forever. I know this better than anyone. For I have suffered here in the shadows, and there are none who might find me.”

Interviews and Blog ToursJenelle SchmidtMay 19, 2020 Comment

Interview with a Knight

I blink in the darkened hallway. You would think, after so many trips into the FictionVerse that I would have gotten used to the crossing over, but it always takes me a minute to acclimatize myself to a new world. I am standing in a stone hallway. I can see wooden doors along the hall, presumably leading into various chambers and rooms. It is dark, the hallway lit only by torches hanging in sconces, and I gather that I have arrived as planned in Dinefwr Castle in South Wales. It is the year 1282.

InterFiction Gazette, Interviews and Blog ToursJenelle SchmidtMay 15, 2020Comment

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