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Disassembling a Fairy Tale with Charles Kiernan

26 Monday May 2014

Posted by dtkrippene in Guest Blog, Love of Reading

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Aponte Literary, Books, Charles Kiernan, Folklore, Grimms Fairy Tales, LehighValley Storytelling Guild, National Storytelling Network, National Youth Storytelling Showcase, Storytelling, The Goose Girl

Illustration by Heinrich Vogeler - Wikipedia

Illustration by Heinrich Vogeler – Wikipedia

When was the last time you read, or heard someone read, a real fairy tale? Did you know the Brothers Grimm printed over 200 stories, but most of us are aware of only a handful?  Centuries ago, fables were told by word of mouth, perpetuated by folks who couldn’t read, or couldn’t afford a printed version.  When the Brothers Grimm collected and published popular folklore in the nineteenth-century, it opened a completely new door to literary romanticism in Europe.

Fellow Aponte Literary author, Charles Kiernan, is one of those rare talents that can hold an audience captivated with his storytelling, no matter how many times you’ve heard the tale.  It isn’t just the words, it’s how it’s told. I had the privilege last month of listening to Charles dissect the elements of a traditional fairy tale. He was kind enough to share this knowledge on Searching for Light in the Darkness.

And yes, his resemblance to Mark Twain is uncannily accurate.

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Charles Kiernan Gesture

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Distillation of Research

20 Sunday Apr 2014

Posted by dtkrippene in Guest Blog, On Writing

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Aponte Literary, Avoiding Info Dump, D.B. Sieders, Dark Urban Fantasies, Plotting Stories, Romance, Sensual Paranormals, Sexy Contemporaries, Writing

DB Sieders Philosoraptor Meme

A hearty welcome to D.B. Sieders, scientist by day, romance writer by whatever time she finds in-between. How many girls did you know as a kid, who liked wading in creeks and catching salamanders? Rare as hen’s teeth in my day. We share an education in biology, an amazing agent, and penchant for scribing stories.

 

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Thanks for hosting me, D.T. I’m so pleased with the opportunity to hang out with a fellow scientist-turned-author!

People love to talk about what they know, especially when they’re passionate about the topic. That’s true for me as a scientist. I know, as I’ve been asked on more than one occasion to answer a science question in ‘five sentences or less.’

*Must work that line into one of my books*

This is also true for me as a writer, something I learned while working with the editor for my soon-to-be re-released debut contemporary romance novella. Both of my protagonists are biomedical researchers. The laboratory setting and their efforts to solve a research problem are integral to the story. But given my passion and first hand knowledge about these two elements, they could easily overshadow the characters and their motivations in the larger plot and make for a really boring, long-winded, jargon-filled narrative.

No one wants to read a really boring, long-winded, jargon-filled narrative.

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Welcome Eileen Charbonneau – Author of Historical Fiction and YA

01 Tuesday Apr 2014

Posted by dtkrippene in Guest Blog, Uncategorized

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Aponte Literary, Eileen Charbonneau, Elements of a Novel, giveaway, Historical Fiction, mystery, The Ghosts of Stony Clove, The Randolph Legacy, Waltzing in Ragtime, YA

 

Eileen Photo with Natalie

It is an honor to welcome, Eileen Charbonneau, award-winning author of ten novels, nine of them novels. Eileen is represented by the Aponte Literary Agency, (that’s Natalie Aponte sitting next to her).

In celebration of her newly released audiobook, Waltzing in Ragtime, be sure to leave a comment for a chance to win a free copy from audible.com.

 

Do Tell

My pal and fellow Aponte Literary agency novelist Juilene Osborne-McKnight is fond of saying that we humans are hotwired for story.  As professional storytellers both separately and together (as Sisters in Story), we have experienced the profound power of story first hand.

I remember sweating bullets when I was last on the bill at a regional Boy Scout meeting.  After the ceremonies, the loud sing alongs, the sugary snack time, I felt like I was walking into the ring of Dante’s Inferno.  But as soon as I began the story of a boy who made friends with an eagle and asked to fly with him to Skyland, all was quiet.  What would happen next?  Why didn’t the boy heed the eagle’s warnings about boundaries?  Would the boy ever find his way home?

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I’m Guest Blogging this Week with Author M.V. Freeman

24 Monday Mar 2014

Posted by dtkrippene in Guest Blog, Writing Dystopian Themes

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Aponte Literary, Author Interview, D.T. Krippene, Dystopian, Fantasy, Humor, Inspiration, M.V. Freeman, New Adult, Writing, YA

Paperbacks Papercuts

It’s not often I get to hobnob with bestselling authors, and this week, I’m with M.V. Freeman, author of Urban Fantasy and Romance.  We share a similar taste for stories of shadow and light, and coffee with cream.

Check out my answers to her interview questions at Paperback’s n’ Papercuts.

 

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Let’s Start at the Ending

19 Wednesday Mar 2014

Posted by dtkrippene in Guest Blog, Sci-Fi Themes

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Aponte Literary, Erotica, Paranormal Romance, Tanisha Jones, Urban Fantasy

The End Tanisha

Please welcome Tanisha D. Jones, an author of Urban Theological Mythological Slightly Erotic Romance (Paranormal romance if that confused you).  Tanisha shares with us her thought process behind the main character in her short story, Serenity.  It’s dark, imaginative, and you can find it on her site here.

“She was worth every penny.”

I have developed a fascination with endings.  I can see the end of a movie without watching any other part to decide if that’s something I want to see. Whenever I buy a new book, I read the last line first it just makes me curious as to what happened before to get to this particular line. What happened to get to this very definitive sentence? It’s also the way I write.   I like to believe that what I write is an amalgam of O’Henry and Flannary O’Connor with a hint of Anne Rice,  confusing but beautifully weird.

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Coming Soon: A Unique Dystopian Tale

18 Monday Mar 2013

Posted by dtkrippene in Writing Dystopian Themes

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Aponte Literary, Debbie Herbert, Dystopian, Endogenetic Retrovirus, Human Genome, Keena Kincaid, Raine English, Science Fiction plots, Young Adult

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Claudio Gedda – DepositPhoto.com

A fellow author with Aponte Literary Agency, Debby Herbert, recently invited me to participate in a Goodreads Interview process with other writers. Not yet on the bookshelves, I was asked to offer a sneak peak at my latest project, a unique dystopian tale where humankind stands on the cliff of extinction.

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A native of Wisconsin and Connecticut, DT deserted aspirations of being a biologist to live the corporate dream and raise a family. After seven homes, a ten-year stint working in Asia, and an imagination that never slept, his muse refused to be hobbled as a mere dream. A member of the Bethlehem Writers Group and Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group, DT writes apocalyptic science fiction, paranormal, and parallel universe science fantasy. DT has published several short stories. “Hell of a Deal”, in the paranormal collection, Untethered, and most recently, “Man’s Best Friend”, in the 2021 Best Indie Book for Fiction, Fur, Feathers, and Scales. He also appeared in the Write Here – Write Now short story collection with his middle-grade paranormal, “Locker 33C”. An active member of the Bethlehem Writers Group, he’s been a featured author in the BWG Writers Roundtable Magazine, and will appear in the July 2021 Summer Issue with “Hot as Sin”. His latest project is an apocalyptic tale of humans on the edge extinction, and a young man born years after surviving humans had been rendered sterile. You can find D.T. on his website, Searching for Light in the Darkness, and his social media links on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest.

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