Promo Friday: Once Upon a Rainbow(s)

Like fantasy f/f fairy tales? I've got blurbs and excerpts from a couple of them.

First, there's Fairest, my f/f fantasy fairytale. It's being reborn in a brand new edition within Once Upon a Rainbow, a collection of LGBTQ legends reimagined.

Fairest is a combination of Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, with a dash of Cinderella thrown in for good measure. Here's a little blurb explaining what it's about...

All of my life, I’ve been haunted by her dark eyes. At birth, she cursed me to prick my finger on the spindle and sleep for a century. She appears in my dreams, my reflections, shaping my desires. Who is she? My guardian has only revealed a few enigmatic words as to her identity, the fairest of them all. Follow me into the lonely Forest of Tears where the dwarves dwell, walking where she once walked. Gaze into the depths of the magic mirror which reveals her secrets. For I refuse to fear her, even if I should. 

Here's an excerpt from Fairest...

MY FIRST MEMORY was of her dark eyes. They captured all the colors of my infant universe, even as they threatened to swallow me.

Her eyes should have been terrifying, but they weren’t.

Her blood red lips moved, shaping words I could not recall.

My parents remembered them only too well, as did everyone else who’d gathered at the castle for my christening.

“I, too, have a gift for this child. She shall grow up, with all the beauty and promise of the dawn, but her sun will never rise.”

My mother told me she nearly swooned with terror at the look of sheer malevolence the witch gave to the sunbeams playing about my cradle. She wanted to stop the witch from speaking, as did my father. 

No one could move, no matter how much they wished to. Everyone stood still, spellbound by the witch’s gaze. 

“Before the sun sets on the eve of her sixteenth year, the princess shall prick her finger on a spindle. With the first drop of her blood, a sleeping curse will fall upon her, claiming her for a hundred years.” 

My mother tried to call in another witch to remove the curse. My father burned every spindle he could find. 

For all their efforts, nothing could remove the curse. 

The witch had disappeared into a cloud of green smoke. No one could find her after my christening, despite many attempts. The only thing she left behind, besides her curse, were dreams of dark eyes. 

I wondered if she’d been real. Her appearance was the sort of thing I’d heard about in old legends. The way she haunted my dreams was too much like giggled tales of falling in love. 

Here's a buy link to Once Upon a Rainbow at

Nine Star Press: https://ninestarpress.com/product/once-upon-a-rainbow-volume-one/

Second, there's At Her Service. 

If you liked Fairest, you may want to check out my second f/f fantasy fairytale. It's coming out in Once Upon a Rainbow 2 on January 18, 2017. 

This one is all Cinderella. Here's a little blurbiness, explaining the general plot...

Cinders would much rather fondle her mistress’s bony feet than go to a ball. Magic whisks her away, in spite of herself to a night of lights, dancing, and mystery where she discovers her true heart’s desire. For nothing is what it seems where enchantment, fairy godmothers, and princes are concerned. 

Here's an excerpt, unedited...

Ever since I could remember, my life revolved around my mistress. I did my desperate best to serve her, even though I wasn’t very good at it.

“Fetch me my slippers,” she’d say, waving a slender hand idly in the direction of the closet. She’d be busy reading a leather bound book she’d managed to swindle from a stuffy order of monks, or carefully going over the household accounts. My mistress would never entrust her money to any of the servants.

Eager to please, I’d open the closet. A cascade of all kinds of slippers, scarves, and gowns would come pouring out of the wardrobe, knocking me to the ground.