Have you ever felt that there was something going on in life that not everyone was aware of?...As though there’s a story going on that everyone is a part of, but not everybody knows about—a sort of drama, a battle between what’s peripheral and what’s really important. As though the people you meet aren’t just their plain, prosaic selves, but are actually princes and princesses, gods and goddesses, fairies, gypsies, shepherds, all sorts of fantastic creatures who’ve chosen to hide their real shape...Or have forgotten who they really are.
Have you ever thought that?

--Rose Brier, The Shadow of the Bear

 Fairy Tale Novels!

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March 10, 2010

Regina,

Ahhh!!!! =) I JUST finished reading Shadow of the Bear and LOVED it.  I'm having to use extreme self-control to keep myself from reaching for book two just now, because I really should get some sleep.

Don't ever stop writing good (Catholic) fiction! I found the story really great, original, inspiring, cliff-hanging...I couldn't put it down.

I'm not going to be able to part with the books, so I am just telling all my friends to buy them at your website. 

I especially like how the books don't really seem specifically Catholic or Christian, so that they can reach a wider audience. Can't wait to see the movie either!

Take care & God bless,

~~~Elisa

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To the insane man his insanity is quite prosaic, because it is quite true. A man who thinks himself a chicken is to himself as ordinary as a chicken. A man who thinks he is a bit of glass is to himself as dull as a bit of glass. It is the homogeneity of his mind which makes him dull, and which makes him mad. It is only because we see the irony of his idea that we think him even amusing; it is only because he does not see the irony of his idea that he is put in Hanwell at all. In short, oddities only strike ordinary people. Oddities do not strike odd people. This is why ordinary people have a much more exciting time; while odd people are always complaining of the dullness of life. This is also why the new novels die so quickly, and why the old fairy tales endure for ever. The old fairy tale makes the hero a normal human boy; it is his adventures that are startling; they startle him because he is normal. But in the modern psychological novel the hero is abnormal; the centre is not central. Hence the fiercest adventures fail to affect him adequately, and the book is monotonous. You can make a story out of a hero among dragons; but not out of a dragon among dragons. The fairy tale discusses what a sane man will do in a mad world. The sober realistic novel of to-day discusses what an essential lunatic will do in a dull world.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Orthodoxy, Chapter 2, "The Maniac" 

 Mrs. Doman, I have so enjoyed your Fairy Tale Retold novels. They were so intriguing! I've always loved fairy tales and still ( at almost 13) find your story lines a very mature and realistic way of looking at things. But still with a sense of adventure. I wanted to thank you so much for those books. They made a wonderful escape for me and I am looking forward to any novels you plan to write in the future!

-Tessa L.
February 19, 2010