A Harvest of Fairy Tales for You
A fall harvest of fairy tales Note: The late fall sun makes the book look light green, but it’s actually purple. #writer #notaphotographer An unusual year . . . can also bear fruit This was the year I thought I’d get monster “beefsteak” tomatoes in three colors. I started plants in January. They were trees, […]
How is a story is like a crossword puzzle?
A fairy tale village on the Mosel River in Germany, complete with half-timbered houses and ruined castle. ©LaurelDecher, 2021 While you wait for me to solve my puzzle, here’s a crossword for you A crossword puzzle isn’t something you solve by working your way from top to bottom. Sometimes it works to “solve” a story […]
Make your own bread guys for St. Nicholas Day!
Bread Guys a.k.a. Weckmänner or Stutenkerle ©Laurel Decher, 2021 In Germany, you can buy these in every bakery at this time of year: Weckmänner or Stutenkerle or “bread guys” (as they are called at our house). In the Rhineland part of Germany, people eat these for St. Martin’s day. At our house, we have bread […]
Tour the Blackfly Kingdom: Pfalzgrafenstein Castle
When we travel these days, we often drive or fly. In earlier times, the rivers were the highways. Big and long rivers, like the Rhine River in Germany were important for delivering people and things. [Is that why Amazon is named after a river in Brazil? I don’t know, do you?] If you visit, you […]
Lost in a Campground
Nero has a gift for getting lost . . . Burg Rheinfels (Fortress Rhine Boulder) is the inspiration for the Saffron Kingdom. ©Laurel Decher, 2021. How’s your sense of direction? The second Seven Kingdoms Fairy Tale, LOST WITH LEEKS, is all about getting–you guessed it–lost. Prince Nero has a magically magnetic personality. He’s charming, but […]
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Prince Nero is a trouble-magnet–for compasses, maps and magical creatures. Do you need inspiration? After an author spends a few months or years working on a book, it’s always SO exciting to find out what readers think. If you’d like to support your favorite author, leave a review and/or rating on BookBub, Goodreads, or your […]
Happy Day Before St. Nicholas Day!
These “Bread Guys” are in a Luxembourg bakery. ©Laurel Decher, 2019. Would your family like to celebrate St. Nicholas Day this year? At our house, it’s always been a nice start to a busy month. Making Stutenkerle or “Bread Guys” is a fun, easy, and reasonably healthy after-school activity on December 5th. Afterwards, the kids […]
Prince Nero goes to Luxembourg?!?
Prince Nero made it to Luxembourg with the help of his friends at SCBWI Book people know that books are a doorway to adventure so it shouldn’t be a surprise that I got to visit a whole new country because of the Seven Kingdoms Fairy Tales. Unlike Prince Nero, I didn’t get lost. Because I […]
There’s more to explore!
The second book in the Seven Kingdoms Fairy Tale series is all about exploring–with a prince who has no sense of direction! Just for fun, here are the real castles that inspired the Blackfly and the Saffron Kingdoms. LOST WITH LEEKS stars the Blackfly Prince Nero and the Saffron royal twins: Prince Magellan and Princess […]