{"id":25668,"date":"2014-05-15T09:54:14","date_gmt":"2014-05-14T21:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=25668"},"modified":"2014-05-15T09:54:26","modified_gmt":"2014-05-14T21:54:26","slug":"my-favourite-fairytale-retellings-a-guest-post-on-kate-forsyths-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2014\/05\/15\/my-favourite-fairytale-retellings-a-guest-post-on-kate-forsyths-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"My Favourite Fairytale Retellings &#8212; A Guest Post On Kate Forsyth&#8217;s Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/03\/24\/new-review-for-thornspell\/thornspellcover_small-6\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4381\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4381\" title=\"thornspellcover_small\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/thornspellcover_small1-106x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"106\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/thornspellcover_small1-106x150.jpg 106w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/thornspellcover_small1.jpg 140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 106px) 100vw, 106px\" \/><\/a>In response to her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kateforsyth.com.au\/kates-blog\/book-review-thornspell-by-helen-lowe\" target=\"_blank\">review of <em>Thornspell<\/em> <\/a>&amp; its inclusion amongst her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kateforsyth.com.au\/kates-blog\/My_Twelve_Most_Spell-Binding_Fairy_Tales_Ever\" target=\"_blank\">favourite fairytale retellings<\/a> &#8212; featured <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2014\/05\/14\/kate-forsyth-reviews-thornspell-includes-it-in-her-favourite-fairytale-retellings\/\" target=\"_blank\">here <\/a>yesterday &#8212; Kate Forsyth invited me to share my own favourite retellings on her blog.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a sneak preview:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>&#8220;I have always loved fairytales, and it may come as no surprise \u2013 given that <strong>Thornspell <\/strong>is a retelling of Sleeping Beauty from the perspective of the prince \u2013 that Sleeping Beauty was always my &#8216;favourite&#8221; when I was a kid.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>\u00a0Later, Hans Christian Andersen&#8217;s The Little Mermaid probably ran it a close second as my &#8216;favourite&#8221; fairytale, and I was always remarkably fond of Snow White and Cinderella &#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>To read on and discover some of my favourite retellings, click on:<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kateforsyth.com.au\/kates-blog\/book-list-helen-lowes-favourite-fairy-tale-retellings\" target=\"_blank\">BOOK LIST: Helen Lowe&#8217;s Favourite Fairy Tale Retellings<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to her review of Thornspell &amp; its inclusion amongst her favourite fairytale retellings &#8212; featured here yesterday &#8212; Kate Forsyth invited me to share my own favourite retellings on her blog. Here&#8217;s a sneak preview: &#8220;I have always loved fairytales, and it may come as no surprise \u2013 given that Thornspell is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-my-books","category-guest-blog-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25668"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25678,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25668\/revisions\/25678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}