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Lissa Sloan

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Author of Cinderella continuation Glass and Feathers, I love fairy tales and tea. Find me at lissasloan.com.

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Lissa Sloan @lissasloan.bsky.social · Aug 18

How have I never done #MoodboardMonday for my #Cinderella continuation, Glass and Feathers?! #fairytales #folklore

Art by Arthur Rackham (1, 4, 7), Edmund Dulac (2,9), Francois Boucher (3), eBook Launch (5), Herbert Dicksee (6), and Amanda Bergloff (8)

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The dark blue cover of Glass and Feathers surrounded by 8 images in earth tones: a man's hand holding a woman's with roses in the foreground, an uneasy princess standing at a piano, a woman's hands holding plants she has picked, a barefoot woman sitting at a hearth, a woman's bare feet, walking, a woman in silhouette wearing a cloak of feathers, a woman's hand picking flowers.

Lissa Sloan @lissasloan.bsky.social · 1d

Love this art! 🖤🖤🖤

The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 8d

The Nachtkrapp is the Night Raven, found in Germany and beyond, a massive bird of the night who in most regions have malevolent intent. If it sees small children it will flap its iron wings and take the child back to its nest and make a messy meal of them #FolkyFriday

🖼️ KD Holm

Lissa Sloan @lissasloan.bsky.social · 2d

In Popeljuha Zavaljuha the king promised his dying wife he'll only remarry a woman who fits her ring. The unlucky winner is her daughter (who escapes & claims her chosen mate by giving him…half a ring). #AnotherCinderella #FolkloreThursday #folkyfriday #notdisneyprincess #folklore
🎨August Bourotte

A young woman stands before a seated old man with a long white beard. Her back is to the viewer and she's anxiously twisting her fingers behind her back.

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Lissa Sloan @lissasloan.bsky.social · 5d

I'm so proud to have my poem You Hunt Me appearing in The Otherworld Magazine along with a delightfully vengeful story by Alison Weber and a fascinating #blackshuck essay by @lwadewrites1066.bsky.social and many more immersive #wildhunt works!

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Ghostly riders on frightening horses flying over a red background surrounded by poppies and greenery.

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Lissa Sloan @lissasloan.bsky.social · 8d

Yes!!

Lissa Sloan @lissasloan.bsky.social · 8d

I just rewatched Sapsorrow recently! Henson's The Storyteller episodes are my favorite fairy tales on film!! ❤️

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Lissa Sloan @lissasloan.bsky.social · 8d

Of course! 😊

Lissa Sloan @lissasloan.bsky.social · 8d

No, it’s a Serbian variant I found in the Roalfe Cox text on Cinderella. Tale 133 here: archive.org/details/cind...

Cinderella; three hundred and forty-five variants of Cinderella, Catskin, and Cap o'Rushes, abstracted and tabulated, with a discussion of mediaeval analogues, and notes : Cox, Marian Roalfe, 1860-191...

Bibliographical index: p. [lxxiii]-lxxx. Books which ... contain no Cinderella variants: p. 529-535

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Lissa Sloan @lissasloan.bsky.social · 9d

Sorry! 133. I keep getting them mixed up.

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Lissa Sloan @lissasloan.bsky.social · 9d

It's a version of Catskin, looks like from Serbia? No. 132 here: archive.org/details/cind...

I believe the Rackham illustration is from a tale called The True Sweetheart.

Bibliographical index: p. [lxxiii]-lxxx. Books which ... contain no Cinderella variants: p. 529-535

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Lissa Sloan @lissasloan.bsky.social · 9d

To avoid marrying her father, this heroine takes her dead mother’s advice & asks him for an impossible, celestial gown. But with the Devil’s aid, he pulls it from a nutshell. #AnotherCinderella #FolkloreThursday #folkyfriday #fairytales #folkloreandfairytales #notdisneyprincess
🎨Arthur Rackham

A young woman with long, fair hair gets dressed in her poor, shabby bedroom. She is fastening a beautiful silver gown covered all over with stars.

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Lissa Sloan @lissasloan.bsky.social · 18d

Thank you!! ☺️🖤

Lissa Sloan @lissasloan.bsky.social · 19d

It's #autumn at last! I'm delighted that my poem You Hunt Me is appearing in The Wild Hunt issue from The Otherworld Magazine!

The #illustration is mine. A new picture for an old #poem written after my mom's death. Read it at the-otherworld-magazine.kit.com

#wildhunt #folkloreandfairytales

A watercolor of three red-eyed hounds, blurred together to form one three-headed beast.

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Lissa Sloan @lissasloan.bsky.social · Sep 11

After over 100 more traditional #Cinderella tales, I’m shifting to ATU 510B tales for a while, starting with The Princess in the Catskins. Get ready for icky dads, celestial gowns in nutshells, & wild disguises! #AnotherCinderella #FolkloreThursday #folkyfriday #notdisneyprincess 🎨Arthur Rackham

A young woman in a gown of cat skins (black, tabby, spotted, complete with tails) walks out of a wood. She carries a cloth bundle in one hand. Her feet are bare.

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Lissa Sloan @lissasloan.bsky.social · Sep 10

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Lissa Sloan @lissasloan.bsky.social · Sep 8

Have you made your list of 3 Favorite Reads from 2024 on #shepherd.com ? Once you do, they send you #bookrecs based on the books you love most! What could be better?

#daughteroftheforest #julietmarillier #booklover❤️

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Want to know Lissa Sloan's Top 3 Books of 2024?

Lissa's top 3 reads of 2024 include Daughter of the Forest and two other amazing books. Discover what makes these books unmissable!

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Lissa Sloan @lissasloan.bsky.social · Sep 6

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Lissa Sloan @lissasloan.bsky.social · Sep 5

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Lissa Sloan @lissasloan.bsky.social · Sep 5

What a treat to receive a card from Old Fox (in an envelope decorated by Wolf)! @annelouiseavery.bsky.social 's world is so inspiring for my next project--and such a lovely, comforting place to escape into. ☺️❤️

An open notebook with handwritten notes plus a card with a fox on the front and an envelope with UK stamps decorated by a drawing of the English countryside. Behind the notebook is a mug of tea.

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Lissa Sloan @lissasloan.bsky.social · Sep 5

I'm loving being a Patreon supporter of Old Fox and friends, and of course, their creator, @annelouiseavery.bsky.social 🦊🐺

Anne Louise Avery @annelouiseavery.bsky.social · Sep 4

Having another one of my regular treatments tomorrow to keep the cancer at bay, which always makes me ill for a couple of weeks, so any support, either via kofi ko-fi.com/annelouiseav... or my patreon is very, very welcome, and enables me to keep writing and creating.

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Lissa Sloan @lissasloan.bsky.social · Sep 4

It's much friendlier than the story, but I had to find a way to use it! 🤭

Lissa Sloan @lissasloan.bsky.social · Sep 4

This wiley youngest daughter of a king so poor that the queen abandons the princesses Hansel and Gretel-style not only gets them out of their plight, but kills two giants in the process! #AnotherCinderella #FolkloreThursday #folkyfriday #notdisneyprincess 🎨John Bauer

A friendly-looking hooded giant holds a tiny woman in its open hand above a forest. She is dressed in 18th century style, an elegant gown and powdered wig. She looks down demurely.

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Lissa Sloan @lissasloan.bsky.social · Sep 4

So beautiful!!

curious ordinary @curiousordinary.bsky.social · Sep 4

'Tree Scene 126' - Namiki Hajime, 2007.
#JapaneseArt #FolkloreThursday

Looking up through a canopy of trees to stars in the night sky.

Lissa Sloan @lissasloan.bsky.social · Aug 26

Looking forward to reading it! ☺️

Lissa Sloan @lissasloan.bsky.social · Aug 25

#BookMail!! When I bought this copy of Women of the Fairy Tale Resistance by @janeharrington.bsky.social , I planned to give it as a gift and buy the audiobook for myself. Which I still will do. But obviously I need my own print copy too because look at the gorgeousness!!!
#fairytales #feminism

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Lissa Sloan @lissasloan.bsky.social · Aug 22

No invite to the ball? No worries! Grab your free copy of my subversive #Cinderella continuation before the stroke of midnight on August 24!
www.amazon.com/Glass-Feathe...