Lucy Patton's Blog
September 2, 2016
Rowen's Bite Sample Chapters
For any readers of my book, Oona's Fortune, who are interested in a sneak peek of the second book in the series, you are in luck!
As of August, Amazon KDP has pushed a new version of Oona's Fortune including the first 30 pages of Rowen's Bite. In addition to the sample chapters, Oona's Fortune has a better user interface and smaller chapter sizes.
Rowen's Bite is a retelling of Little Red Riding Hood. The story deconstructs the fairy tale while borrowing from Greek and Norse mythology.
Some of the characters include: Hermes, Greek messenger of the gods, Fenrir, Norse vanguard of Ragnarok, and Cybele, Phrygian embodiment of Gaia or Mother Earth.
Rowen's Bite will be released in December, 2016.
As of August, Amazon KDP has pushed a new version of Oona's Fortune including the first 30 pages of Rowen's Bite. In addition to the sample chapters, Oona's Fortune has a better user interface and smaller chapter sizes.
Rowen's Bite is a retelling of Little Red Riding Hood. The story deconstructs the fairy tale while borrowing from Greek and Norse mythology.
Some of the characters include: Hermes, Greek messenger of the gods, Fenrir, Norse vanguard of Ragnarok, and Cybele, Phrygian embodiment of Gaia or Mother Earth.
Rowen's Bite will be released in December, 2016.
January 20, 2016
Beauty and the Beast dates back 4,000 years
Fairytales and folklore are universal and, in this BBC post, very long-lived.
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http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-35358487
Fairy tales like Beauty and the Beast can be traced back thousands of years, according to researchers at universities in Durham and Lisbon.
Using techniques normally employed by biologists, academics studied links between stories from around the world and found some had prehistoric roots.
They found some tales were older than the earliest literary records, with one dating back to the Bronze Age.
The stories had been thought to date back to the 16th and 17th Centuries.
Durham University anthropologist Dr Jamie Tehrani, said Jack and the Beanstalk was rooted in a group of stories classified as The Boy Who Stole Ogre's Treasure, and could be traced back to when Eastern and Western Indo-European languages split more than 5,000 years ago.
Analysis showed Beauty And The Beast and Rumpelstiltskin to be about 4,000 years old.
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Oona's Fortune is the latest version of the story.
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http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-35358487
Fairy tales like Beauty and the Beast can be traced back thousands of years, according to researchers at universities in Durham and Lisbon.
Using techniques normally employed by biologists, academics studied links between stories from around the world and found some had prehistoric roots.
They found some tales were older than the earliest literary records, with one dating back to the Bronze Age.
The stories had been thought to date back to the 16th and 17th Centuries.
Durham University anthropologist Dr Jamie Tehrani, said Jack and the Beanstalk was rooted in a group of stories classified as The Boy Who Stole Ogre's Treasure, and could be traced back to when Eastern and Western Indo-European languages split more than 5,000 years ago.
Analysis showed Beauty And The Beast and Rumpelstiltskin to be about 4,000 years old.
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Oona's Fortune is the latest version of the story.
