The Perils of Omniscient

So I've been wallowing in a reading-fest of late and having a grand old time of it. However, I have discovered, or perhaps re-discovered, something as I read, and that is: Omniscient is harder than hell to pull off, unless you're British or Australian.

The thing is, I do like the omniscient POV, it hearkens back to the Once Upon a Time voice of childhood fairy tales, and I'm just enough of a writing/reading nerd that I don't mind the author inserting themselves into the reading process. And y...