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Wingin' It: Tall Tales of (fully-grown) Fairies with Issues
So you thought fairies were special?
Lived wholesome lives collecting pearly teeth and leaving a sprinkle of stardust in their wake?
Think again, people. In Fairyland, they have exactly the same pressures as us: cosmetic surgery, online dating and even their own Bake Off. There are lotharios, chavs, drunks and, of course, those that are bent on getting their wicked ways…
These are neither the fairy tales, nor the characters, of your innocent childhood.
No.
These fairies have issues that only grown-ups will understand.
Lived wholesome lives collecting pearly teeth and leaving a sprinkle of stardust in their wake?
Think again, people. In Fairyland, they have exactly the same pressures as us: cosmetic surgery, online dating and even their own Bake Off. There are lotharios, chavs, drunks and, of course, those that are bent on getting their wicked ways…
These are neither the fairy tales, nor the characters, of your innocent childhood.
No.
These fairies have issues that only grown-ups will understand.
122 pages, Paperback
Published November 3, 2019
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About the author
Helen Laycock
21 books63 followersSHORT STORIES
Helen Laycock's short stories appear in a variety of anthologies, such as the Cabinet of Heed and An Earthless Melting Pot, in magazines, and in her own collections, and have been successful in many writing competitions. Her first attempt at play-writing secured her a shortlisting in Pint-Sized Plays in 2016.
FLASH FICTION
In 2018, she was commissioned as a lead writer at Visual Verse and her flash fiction has featured in several editions of The Best of CafeLit. Pieces have been showcased in Reflex Fiction, the Ekphrastic Review, Paragraph Planet, Serious Flash Fiction, the Beach Hut, and Lucent Dreaming – whose inaugural flash competition she won. She was longlisted in Mslexia’s 2019 flash fiction competition and her work has appeared in several Flash Floods as part of National Flash Fiction Day.
CHILDREN'S FICTION (MG)
She has penned nine children's books for 8-12-year-olds. She has been employed as a writer by an educational publisher and as a teacher.
POETRY
Pushcart nominee, winner of Black Bough Poetry's Chapbook Contest, former recipient of the David St. John Thomas Award, and nominee for the Dai Fry Award, Helen Laycock’s poetry collection Frame has featured as Book of the Month at the East Ridge Review.
Her poetry has been published by Black Bough, Broken Spine Arts, Folkheart Press, Prattlefog and Gravelrap, The Wombwell Rainbow, Poetry Roundabout, Spilling Cocoa Over Martin Amis, Onslaught, The Storms Journal, Popshot, Lucent Dreaming, Literary Revelations, Kobayaashi, Three Drops Press, The Caterpillar, The Dirigible Balloon,Fevers of the Mind & Visual Verse. Many of her poems can be purchased at https://www.facebook.com/pillarboxpoe....
She also writes humorous verse.
She has four websites:
Fiction in a Flash
https://helenlaycock.wixsite.com/fict...
Children's Author
https://helenlaycock.wixsite.com/hele...
Poetry
https://helenlaycock.wixsite.com/marb...
Tiny Tales
https://helenlaycock.wixsite.com/tiny...
All her books are available on Amazon:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Helen-Laycoc...
US: https://www.amazon.com/Helen-Laycock/...
She can be followed on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/helenlaycock...
Twitter:
@helen_laycock
Helen Laycock's short stories appear in a variety of anthologies, such as the Cabinet of Heed and An Earthless Melting Pot, in magazines, and in her own collections, and have been successful in many writing competitions. Her first attempt at play-writing secured her a shortlisting in Pint-Sized Plays in 2016.
FLASH FICTION
In 2018, she was commissioned as a lead writer at Visual Verse and her flash fiction has featured in several editions of The Best of CafeLit. Pieces have been showcased in Reflex Fiction, the Ekphrastic Review, Paragraph Planet, Serious Flash Fiction, the Beach Hut, and Lucent Dreaming – whose inaugural flash competition she won. She was longlisted in Mslexia’s 2019 flash fiction competition and her work has appeared in several Flash Floods as part of National Flash Fiction Day.
CHILDREN'S FICTION (MG)
She has penned nine children's books for 8-12-year-olds. She has been employed as a writer by an educational publisher and as a teacher.
POETRY
Pushcart nominee, winner of Black Bough Poetry's Chapbook Contest, former recipient of the David St. John Thomas Award, and nominee for the Dai Fry Award, Helen Laycock’s poetry collection Frame has featured as Book of the Month at the East Ridge Review.
Her poetry has been published by Black Bough, Broken Spine Arts, Folkheart Press, Prattlefog and Gravelrap, The Wombwell Rainbow, Poetry Roundabout, Spilling Cocoa Over Martin Amis, Onslaught, The Storms Journal, Popshot, Lucent Dreaming, Literary Revelations, Kobayaashi, Three Drops Press, The Caterpillar, The Dirigible Balloon,Fevers of the Mind & Visual Verse. Many of her poems can be purchased at https://www.facebook.com/pillarboxpoe....
She also writes humorous verse.
She has four websites:
Fiction in a Flash
https://helenlaycock.wixsite.com/fict...
Children's Author
https://helenlaycock.wixsite.com/hele...
Poetry
https://helenlaycock.wixsite.com/marb...
Tiny Tales
https://helenlaycock.wixsite.com/tiny...
All her books are available on Amazon:
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Helen-Laycoc...
US: https://www.amazon.com/Helen-Laycock/...
She can be followed on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/helenlaycock...
Twitter:
@helen_laycock
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December 11, 2019
Ever since I first encountered Tinker Bell I had a feeling that there might be a grown up side to fairies. I mean she was in love with Peter Pan, jealous of Wendy, unhappy with her figure, and fed up with having to hang around with the lost boys. That tale was a good start. But not until I read Helen Laycock’s new collection, Wingin’ It… “Tall Tales of Fairies with Issues”, did I realize just how many real world adult problems are reflected in the lives of the Fairy Folk. Now, I don’t just mean Brother’s Grimm’s cruel Fairy Tale problems of love, jealousy, and revenge, or even the GRIMM adult comic book versions of sexy horror problems. I’m talking real adult problems, like “who will win the Great Fairyland Bake-off,” “Can witches and wizards get along as neighbors at the old fairy folk home, “Is that guy dead, or just dead drunk,” or even “which beauty contest entrants have had way too much Botox?” Answer… all of them. Ms. Laycock gives us ten tales with intriguing characters, revealing endings, and interesting commentaries on the worlds of both fairies and humans. It’s all very funny stuff.
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