SO. Apparently it’s JULY. (Hooowwww???) Today I have a couple of exciting fairy tale-related news to share. Buuut also if the title didn’t give it away… I’m going on a hiatus for this month.

Why am I going on hiatus when I literally did this already through all of March? Wellll, this just happens to be REALM MAKERS MONTH. As in the writers conference I’m going to later this month (*screeches*). And, frankly, life has been craaaaazy lately. Due to sickness and friends coming out of town to visit and balancing two blogs now, I haven’t had as much time as I’d like to fully prep for the conference. Thus I decided I needed to cut some things so I can properly focus. Unfortunately, ol’ bloggy here is one of those “things”.

But never fear!

I will definitely be back by August. And not only will I be back, but I’ll be back with a whoooole Realm Makers 2019 recap. SO EXCITED.

I also will probably be a bit more absent on Instagram, EXCEPT during Realm Makers. I hope to post plenty of pictures in my stories. So keep an eye out for that if you want to follow along on the adventure.

But before I vanish in the void leave for hiatus, I have a couple of announcements…

FAIRY TALE CENTRAL NEWS

Being as how it’s a new month, today over on Fairy Tale Central we’ve announced what fairy tale we’ll be featuring for all of July.

Snow White and Rose Red

This gooorgeous, sweet little tale is sadly rather obscure, BUT WE WANT TO FIX THAT. People need to know about it. Thus we’re utterly ecstatic to spend all of July digging into it with reviews, author interviews, origin stories, and all that deliciousness. I will definitely have some posts up. So see? I’m not vanishing from the blogging world completely.

Alsoooo. MORE NEWS. Arielle, Faith, and I are thrilled (like over-the-moon, glitter-explosion, rainbow-unicorn-party type of thrilled) to welcome two new members to the FTC team.

Kirsten Fichter and Hayden Wand are our newest pair of Fairy Padawans. As in, they will be writing some posts for FTC and BRB SQUEALING. These two girls are some of the biggest fairy tale lovers I know, and just utter gems. I am sooooooo happy to have them on the team! They’re also the masters at epic fairy tale posts. So keep your eye out, because they’ll be doing a couple of posts for FTC in July!

CROCKETT AND CRANE BOOK #2

If you’ve been here for all of 0.7 seconds you know I am a HUGE fan of Kyle Robert Shultz’s books. He writes such brilliant and hilarious spins on fairy tales.

WELL.

Deadwood, book #2 of his Crockett and Crane series, just released YESTERDAY.

The Crockett and Crane series is basically a prequel-ish series to his Beaumont and Beasley books (but you by no means need to read the B&B books to read the C&C ones. You just should anyway because they’re amazing. *cough, cough*)

The Crockett and Crane series is a fantasy western about part-time centaur (yes, you read that right) Todd Crane and his motley friends taking on all sorts of magical monster problems. I’m not even a western fan and I LOVE these.

Click for my review of Horseman Book #1

Oh wait. You probably want to know a few things about the newest book, yes? Read on, my elflings!

DEADWOOD

It’s not the people in this town you have to watch out for.

It’s the buildings.

Monster hunter and part-time centaur Todd Crane didn’t ask to be sheriff of Deadwood. For one thing, he’s never had an easy time staying on the right side of the law. For another, he’s too busy trying to find a dangerous sorcerer who nearly destroyed the United States of Neverica.

But some men—and centaurs—have greatness thrust upon them. Not only is Todd the reluctant defender of the peace in Deadwood, he’s the only one who can thwart the schemes of a powerful magical entity manipulating the town from the shadows.

And when Todd’s past comes back to haunt him, the stakes get a lot more personal for him and his friends.

Heroes will fall. Secrets will be revealed. Everything is about to change.

Deadwood follows up on the exciting reveals at the end of Horseman to tell a story with big repercussions for the whole fictional universe of Kyle’s Afterverse novels. Together with Kyle’s next book, The Geppetto Codex (Beaumont and Beasley Book #5, coming later this summer), it unpacks a mystery that stretches across time…the true origins of Pinocchio.

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I. AM. SO. EXCITED!!!

Hopefully those bits of goodness make up for me slipping away for a month.

At least I will see lots of you IN PERSON later this month at Realm Makers. *SCREECHES*

But if you’re not able to attend Realm Makers this year, last year I wrote A POST that will hopefully offer some encouragement. I’m verrrry familiar with that FOMO feeling and wondering if I’ll ever be able to attend these magical events. It’s a miracle I was able to make it last year and again this year. You just never know what awesome things God has up His sleeve for you. Keep holding onto those dreams and pursuing them, because God cares about them and YOU, and He’s got amazing plans for you. You never, ever, ever know what beauties the future holds. <3

I will see you all in August!

LET’S TALK!

Before I go I need to know, what are YOUR summer plans??? Anything exciting happening this month? Are you looking forward to Snow White and Rose Red being featured on Fairy Tale Central? (I AMMM!) And who’s excited about the next Crockett and Crane book coming out? (*waves hand in the air enthusiastically* ME ME ME!)