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

Wildwood - out this week

by Janine AshblessMy new Black Lace novel Wildwood is out in the UK this Thursday! It�s a contemporary paranormal about rival ritual magicians, the English countryside, scary fairies, a love-triangle and of course SEX. Lots of that. And by the end, well, I haven�t brought human civilisation to crashing ruin but let�s just say it�s not far off.So here I am to tell you a bit about this novel in the

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,

Genesis of a Fairy Story...

ILL MET BY MOONLIGHT by Portia Da Costa [in Magic and Desire]The inspiration for ILL MET BY MOONLIGHT germinated long, long ago as the idea for a vampire story that I was considering writing for a different publisher, not Black Lace. I'd never written a novella before, but I was intrigued by the idea of creating a shorter piece, something very tight and driven by a very simple and intimate