New fairy tale collection on the way!

In the coming week or so, I'll be putting out a collection of four Tremontine fairy tales. Some of you will have read three of them--"The Fisherman's Teeth," "Little Snowflake" and "Winter's Girl"--but the fourth story is brand new. It's called "The Clever Traveler Boy," and some of you may recognize the hero. It's a fairy tale, though, so don't take it at face value!

Here's a little taste of it:

There once was a boy, a Traveler, though they didn't bear that name back then. He was red-haired but handsome, and played the harp so well it charmed the birds from the air and the girls to his bed. Everyone thought this boy exceedingly clever, but no one thought more highly of his cleverness than the boy himself.

One day as he walked along the road, he found a book lying in a ditch. The mud all around was mounded up, as if the book had fallen into it from a great height, but the book itself shone like the sun. The clever boy picked it up; in spite of the muck, it was clean as anything and encrusted with gold and jewels. "Well," said he, "here's a pretty thing I can sell." He opened it to the first page. "Oh," said he, "here's a pretty thing I can keep for myself," for it was the book of Pagg, filled with every Law both known and unknown. "With this book I can make and unmake everything in the world."

This was in the days when the Gods walked the earth more freely than they do now. Everyone knew to show respect should they meet a God, but the boy thought he was as clever as They were. So when he saw Pagg Himself come running up, he only whistled a little tune and didn't even bow his head. "Give Me My book!" Pagg said.

"Your book? I found it lying in the road," said the clever boy.

"I dropped it from the heavens. Give it back, or I will make it so you've never been born!"

"Not so fast," said the boy. "To do that, You need this book. Who's to say I can't unmake You with it?"

Fairy Tales from the Greater Kingdom Vol 1 will be 99 cents here and at all major retailers and will be free to all premium members. Meanwhile, if you haven't signed up for my newsletter, you're missing out on a free mini-ebook you can't get anywhere else, full of episodes of "Ask a Tremontine." It doesn't come very often--no more than every other week usually--and has news of book releases and samples I won't be sharing here. Hey, incentives, my dears!

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