Happy Memorial Day!  Hope everyone’s long weekend has been fun and relaxing. 

Throughout this week, Jenna’s Journal will be spotlighting featured authors of the Fractured Fairy Tales with blurbs and excerpts of their works, leading up to the Fairy Tale Ending Contest Thursday and Friday.  Read the excerpts from the different works during the week, and on Thursday I will post five questions about the five tales.  Leave a comment on this blog June 2 or 3, send me an email at jenna.jaxon@yahoo.com answering the five questions and you’ll be entered to win a copy of all five Fractured Fairy Tales featured on Jenna’s Journal.  The winner will be drawn randomly from all correct answers and notified via email.

Today’s featured author is Patricia Green, who wrote two of the fractured tales, Snowy and the Seven Wharves and Goldie and the Three Doms, which she has introduced below.  Enjoy!

For Snowy and the Seven Wharves (I like puns), I turned the plot of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves into a pretty straightforward erotic romance. No dwarves in this one, but seven wharves on which Snow White must toil as she evades her evil stepmother. Each wharf illustrates a “dwarfish” aspect of the story, e.g. Snowy is grumpy at one wharf, sneezy at the next, sleepy at still another, and so forth. Her character grows as we get to know her through her adventures. Doc, the Marshal who guards her while she’s in the WITSEC program, falls in love with her and the feeling is mutual. The moral of the story is: good guys win, bad guys lose. Oh, yeah, and I added sex.

Did I mention that there’s sex in these stories? They’re not the Brothers’ fairy tales.

Blurb for Snowy and the Seven Wharves

Snowy is fair and sweet with ruby lips and hair as black as coal. Doc DuMont is the tall, broad-shouldered WITSEC marshal who’s going to save her from her evil stepmother. Doc finds Snowy irresistible, sexy and oh so tantalizing. He wants to both save her and seduce her. The trick is figuring out which to do first.

No dwarves here, but seven wharves where Ms. White finds herself experiencing life on the run. From identity to identity, job to job, dopey, grumpy, sneezy, bashful and sleepy, Snowy finds herself in new and challenging situations. She thinks she’s finally found her happy place, but her evil stepmother isn’t far behind, and determined to murder the innocent Snow White. Doc will have something to say about that!

Excerpt from Snowy and the Seven Wharves

Doc watched Snowy move through the restaurant gracefully. Her dark hair, pulled back into a long tail, swished like polished silk against her slender back. She smiled at the customers she served, though the smile was superficial. He could see how unhappy she was in the weariness in her eyes and the high spots of color on her fair cheeks. As his subordinate, Deputy Marshal Logan, met him at the table, Doc looked up and nodded. “She’s secure.”

“No suspicious activity?”

“No.” Doc kept his voice low. “McCarty’s shift was a negative, too.” He popped another French fry into his mouth. “She’ll be off work in half-an-hour.”

“Right. Long hours for her today.”

“Yeah, her feet must be killing her. Let me finish these fries and then I’ll jog along.”

Nodding, Logan began to peruse a menu. This was the second time this week they’d had their officer debriefing at the witness’ place of employment. They’d have to find another location for their next status update.

“Any word on how the case against the perp is progressing?” Logan asked. “Ms. White must be getting truly sick of WITSEC’s tender care.”

Doc snorted softly. “Word at HQ is that Santa Maria’s lawyers are applying some new legal maneuver to delay the trial again.”

“That woman is a piece of…work.”

“She’s got the evil stepmother thing going for her, that’s for sure,” Doc agreed. “But the Federal attorney will nail her on conspiracy to commit murder charges. She’ll go down like a hod of bricks.”

“I hope so. The girl is feeling the strain. She seems brittle.”

“Yeah.” He looked over at Snow White and tried to keep his emotions out of his assessment. She didn’t deserve this nightmare.

From a writer’s perspective, fairy tales have several tropes: tell rather than show, minimal character development, and a moral. There are exceptions, of course, but all those tales by the Brothers Grimm had these things in common. When I wrote my two fractured fairy tales for New Dawning International Bookfair, I had to modernize the components to make them more appealing to today’s readers. Consequently, while Goldie and the Three Doms takes its base from Goldilocks and the Three Bears, I wrote the story as a farce. Goldie was more developed, but made into something of a silly twit. I exaggerated the too soft, too hard, and just right concepts and showed them in a mild BDSM framework. The moral is: be careful what you wish. Oh, yeah, and I added kinky sex.

Blurb from Goldie and the Three Doms

Meet Goldie. She’s a determined young woman, tired of men for whom pedicures are foreplay. She makes it her mission to find a dominant man to make her dreams come true. The search takes her to Bear Island where she encounters Doms either too soft or too harsh. Will she never find one who is just right?

Markus Masterton is waiting for just the right submissive woman. He’s got his paddle ready, but it looks like he’ll linger on Bear Island for a lot longer than he’d like.

Excerpt from  Goldie and the Three Doms

Goldie felt warmth stir in her loins. Unfortunately, he picked that moment to stop and go back to the chest. Bob rummaged around a bit, returning to her with a blindfold.

“Do you trust me?”

She bit her lip. “Well…”

“Your safe word is ‘prestidigitation’.”

“’Prestidigitation?’ Can’t we just settle on ‘stop-you-rotten-prick’?”

“Oh now, don’t be like that. Do you want me to quit?”

“No.” She eyed him, looking for signs of corruption, but saw none. “Okay.”

He gently tied the blindfold on her, and Goldie shivered with delicious fear. Not the scary kind of scared, but a thrill-of-the-roller-coaster kind of scared. Once her eyes were covered, he kissed her lips, gently at first, then with a more demanding pressure. Now we’re getting to the good part.

 I hope you enjoyed these excerpts from Snowy and Goldie.  If you’d like to see more of Patricia Green’s work, just follow this link to her website.

All of the Fractured Fairy Tales will be available on June 3rd from New Dawning Bookfair.  Come check us all out! 

Got a question for me or Patricia?  Leave it here and we’ll answer you ASAP!