Hines Talks The Stepsister Scheme

It was his 8yearold daughter Skylar who provided sciencefiction novelist Jim C. Hines the motivation to write his latest novel, Stepsister Scheme, featuring Snow White, gorras Planas Cinderella, and Sleeping Beauty but not the way you know them.

biggest inspiration for Stepsister Scheme and its gorras sequels has been my daughter. For a while, our house was overrun with princesses: princess movies, princess dolls, princess gorras Obey Shop pajamas, princess toothbrushes, and so on. Some of the movies aren bad, but a lot of the merchandise Well, let's wholesale hats just say I wanted to present an alternative interpretation of these characters, explained Hines, 34, who wholesale snapback hats has a master degree in English from Eastern Michigan University. In addition to his daughter, cheap snapbacks he lives in Holt with his wife and son. It was named a January Top Pick by the trade publication, Romantic cheap fitted hats wholesale Times.

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With Stepsister Scheme, Hines dynamites the lived happily ever adage heard at the end of obey snapback hats wholesale most fairy tales. The plot revolves around Cinderella getting married to the prince and then getting attacked by her stepsister, who wielding dark magic. Enter Sleeping Beauty, who saves Cinderella, but not before the stepsister kidnaps the prince and gets away. Snow White then joins the two to save the prince, battling some nefarious villains (in deadlier incarnations thanks to Hines) from several fairy tales.

best summation I've heard so far is that the books blend the old (preDisney) fairy tales with Angels. There's plenty of pageturning action, with Snow White inheriting her mother's magical power including the magic mirror Sleeping Beauty using her fairy gifts to become a deadly fighter, and Cinderella wielding a glass sword while summoning the birds and the rats to her aid, said Hines. a fun team. I try to deal with the more serious themes from the old fairy tales as well, but the most important thing is to tell an engaging story. Mermaid Madness (featuring the Little Mermaid) will be released in October, and Hood Revenge (featuring Little Red Riding Hood) will be released sometime in 2010.

( Mermaid Madness the trio goes up against the Little Mermaid, whose story went a bit differently than either Disney or Hans Christian Anderson described. Then in ( Hood Revenge our heroines face their deadliest challenge yet: the assassin known as the Lady of the Red Hood aka Little Red Riding Hood, said Hines. I love these characters and their stories. I did a shortstory called Creature in Your Neighborhood that will be out later this year in the anthology, Mauled, which still makes me smile a puppet werewolf terrorizing a children's TV show. It twisted, but wonderfully so. Really, if I didn love what I was writing, I doubt I keep doing it.

Even though Hines doesn have a favorite book or story that he written, he does have a favorite cover. Stepsister Scheme is his favorite cover because his daughter, was used as a model for Sleeping Beauty on the right.

coolest thing about this book is that the cover artist was able to use a photo of my daughter as inspiration for (Sleeping Beauty). (She is obviously a lot older than my daughter, but she's recognizable to anyone who knows her. This is without a doubt my favorite cover ever, he said. my daughter isn't old enough to read the