Comments on: flax-golden tales

By: cherry kwan

cherry kwan — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:07:46 +0000

I got onto your blog out of curiosity after reading (and adoring–it’s my favourite book of the year) The Night Circus, and found these beautiful tales! Thank you for sharing them online for us all.

By: Erin

Erin — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:34:18 +0000

I adore your flax-golden tales, they are as if spun from sugar, delicate and sweet. But full of implications too, that make your mind twist and makes you procrastinate while pondering, as if trying to figure out how to eat that sugar-spun delicacy.

I’m afraid they’ll disappear, they have a dreamlike quality.

By: Chris(ty)

Chris(ty) — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 09:39:12 +0000

Hi Erin! I too wandered here from the NaNoWriMo peptalk. I loved the pep-talk, and I’m loving your website even more. I’m seriously considering splurging on a purchase for myself (eeh, gads, right before the holidays) and pre-ordering your book, it sounds like it’s right up my alley, as I too am fascinated with fairytales and magical worlds. What’s a girl to do, right? Anyway, thanks so much for your encouraging (and entertaining) words.

By: Becca

Becca — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 22:51:11 +0000

I also wandered on to your site here from the NaNo pep talk. I think this is such a great idea, to have a 10 sentence short story based off of an image. What a great writing prompt! I hope you don’t mind, I’ll try it out myself Always in need of some creative endeavors!

By: Marcheline

Marcheline — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 22:42:16 +0000

Just wanted to say I hope you changed your last name because of S. Morgenstern of “The Princess Bride.” Did you?

By: Becky Matakas

Becky Matakas — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 11:20:31 +0000

I found you through NaNoWriMo and was attracted to your awesome little email motivating us all to write, write, write.

I am not a novel writer. I am a writer nonetheless. That is the first time I’ve said it “out loud.” haha.

Anyway, this Shel Silverstein poem is something I painted around my dining room walls when we first bought our house 17 years ago. Its still there, though it is now the living room, or “lounge”, as we have so aptly named it. We love to lounge on the comfy couches drinking coffee in the morning or wine in the evening. I love to sit there and write.

So thanks for this lovely little Shel Silverstein connection today. I’m soooo looking forward to reading your book! Congratulations!

By: Amy Rose

Amy Rose — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 02:50:49 +0000

I adore these short, whimsical tales. Each one is a little nugget of beauty. I look forward to reading many more in the future.

By: Jason Cooper

Jason Cooper — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 06:02:45 +0000

Just wanted to let you know that I’m teaching a Community Education course in fairy tales next semester and plan to have my students read some of these flax-golden tales alongside the Shakespeare, H.C. Andersen, Perrault, Karen Russell, Angela Carter, Gene Wolfe, A.S. Byatt, Yeats and C. Rossetti. Thank you for writing them.