In honor of Sleeping Beauty being this month’s featured tale at Fairy Tale Central, I’ve snagged a list of questions to answer about my very own Sleeping Beauty retelling! It’s been an age since I shared anything about The Brightest Thread. Seeing as it’s the story carrying the weight of my publishing hopes and dreams (*cough* only partially kidding), this gap simply must be filled!
Not to mention there may be some new faces around here who think I’m talking about throwback Thursdays when I say “TBT.” 😛
So! Here we are: you, me, and TBT. (Oh dear, that rhymes. We’re off to a great start.)
When did you first read or hear Sleeping Beauty, and what drew you to retell it?
I honestly cannot remember the first time I figured out who Sleeping Beauty was. It certainly wasn’t when I watched the Disney movie, because I was already into my teens at that point. Maybe there was some obscure book of fairy tales that I’ve since forgotten?
Wherever the slumbering princess and I became acquainted, I never would’ve thought to retell her tale until the Rooglewood Press contest of 2015.
*blinks*
That was five years ago. Wow.
WOW.
Anyway, yanking myself back from memory lane here. The contest was called Five Magic Spindles, and the idea was that the top five Sleeping Beauty retellings would be published in an anthology together. I had already entered the two contests prior to this one (for Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast), so I wanted to keep my streak going.
I had no idea that I was about to discover what would become my favorite story I’ve ever written. No clue just how magical, groundbreaking, and (at times) hard this venture would be.
