Alpha females

by Olivia KnightMy favourite heroines � to write, to read, to watch � are alpha. In A bluffer's guide to� Paranormals, I said this of the heroines, �Alpha-females to a woman: there�s no time for simpering flowers when you�re locked in a battle against forces what man was not meant to wot of. These chicks are tough: they�ll gut ex-lovers, eat snakes to survive, lead armies, face down the devil,

Enchanted in the US

by Olivia KnightOnce upon a time, far far away... I first saw the bear as it came down the aisle between Travel and Biography... Everyone wanted to explain the love between Pearl and Thomas... There has been no sleep on the journey...Enchanted, Black Lace's collection of three erotic fairy tales, is at now available in the United States. If, back in August, you were salivating, coveting, and

Enchanted - Bear Skin

By Janine Ashbless Getting published is like waiting for a bus: you wait years for your book to come out and then two appear on the same day! As well as my novel Wildwood, this week also sees the UK publication of the 3-novella collection Enchanted, and my novella Bear Skin appears alongside Olivia Knight�s fantasy The Three Riddles and Leonie Martell�s gothic The People in the Garden.In keeping

Enchanted ~ The Three Riddles

by Olivia KnightEnchanted is the final collection in Black Lace's novella books before we return (for a while) to short stories. Lust Bites was vampires, Possession was shape-shifting and invading spirits, Magic and Desire was fantasy, and Enchanted is fairy tales: be careful what you wish for...The originsLast Friday, in Fairytale feminists, I whisked through the origins of fairy tales and

Fairytale feminists

by Olivia KnightTale as old as timeSong as old as rhymeBeauty and the BeastTheme song to Disney�s �Beauty and the Beast�For the very end of myths is to immobilise the world: they must suggest and mimic a universal order�Roland Barthes, �Myth Today�Next week introduces Enchanted, the novella collection of erotic fairytales � not a combination that startles us now, but a handful of decades ago,