Shirin Dubbin's Blog - Posts Tagged "chaos-tryst"

The true tales of an aspiring Buffy’s love of fairytales, her flirtation with horror and how she finally found satisfaction in the arms of UF.

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The way I hear it, there’s nothing new. There are only thirty-six dramatic structures. That’s it. So there’s only one-way to create something original: the mash-up.

And oh, how we love a good mash-up.

Somewhere online there’s a musical magician who mixed Nirvana’s Smells Like Teen Spiritand Michael Jackson’s Billie Jean into a spellbinder called  Billie Jean the Teen . Blast this song in your car, roll down your windows, and watch spontaneous dancing breakout in the streets. (I’ve done it and it’s magical.)

In literature, Science Fiction met Victorian Historical and birthed Steampunk. Science Fiction, that sly dog, also mixed it up with Westerns to create Space Opera. In the land of love, Romance and Thrillers went midnight dancing and came back with Romantic Suspense. Romance, that saucy wench, also snuck off with Urban Fantasy to bring us Paranormal Romance.

Urban Fantasy. That’s the origin I’m most interested in. Which brings me to bedtime stories and the darkly twisted tales of Halloween versus the darkly romantic adventure of fairytales...

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BONUS FREE READ

In celebration of the mash-up of fairytales and Halloween, and her new release, Chaos Tryst, Shirin Dubbin and All Romance bring you an exclusive free read of  Whipstitch – In which a pair of Faebled nemeses come together for an All Hallows sewing bee.Whipstitch is a “love gone horribly wrong” companion to the “rollicking romantic action” and modern adventures of Goldilocks in Chaos Tryst.