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Welcome, Easter Blog Hoppers! I hope you're having a lovely day. Enjoy the blog hop weekend!

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I'm about to start on a new venture - self-publishing. My short story "Purr" has done so well I've decided to write some more twisted erotic versions of fairy tales. "Purr" is a short erotic retelling of the fairy tale "Puss In Boots". I'm currently editing "Climbing Her Tower" (erotic Rapunzel) and "Trouble In Thigh High Boots" (longer erotic Puss In Boots). If these two books are successful, I will tackle "Beauty and the Beast".

Which brings me to today's topic. How many reading are fans of the TV show "Once Upon A Time"? I sure am. At first my favorite character was Lana Parilla's Wicked Queen but since that time she has been upstaged by someone even more fantastic.

I'm talking about Scottish actor Robert Carlyle as Rumpelstiltskin/Mr. Gold. Is it possible to be both repelled and fascinated by a character at the same time?

I'd always found Rumpel and Mr. Gold to be fascinating but by the time I saw the episode "Skin Deep" I was hooked. That's the one where Rumpel falls in love with Belle. It's the "Beauty and the Beast" episode.

Fairy tales are very popular things to twist into an erotic puddle of goo. My prince in "Climbing Her Tower" has a shaving fetish that he acts out on Rapunzel. My Puss in "Trouble In Thigh High Boots" is a female shapeshifter with some very naughty habits. I named her "Tita", which is short for "la Gatita", which is Spanish for "female kitten". She has a real name but she won't tell that to anyone except for the man she loves. And she will reveal it at the end of the book.

I especially like creating twists in the characters and the situations they find themselves in. I took a bit of poetic license with the fairy tales so that they'd seem fresh and exciting. I'm looking forward to tackling "Beauty And The Beast" especially since I fell so hard for Rumpel when I saw him so vulnerable to a young woman. The ugliness in such a character doesn't have to be physical. Rumpel is a vicious, evil, and vindictive, angry man. A popular trope is to take such a character and redeem him through the love of a woman. I plan to do that in my own version of the fairy tale.

If you like fairy tales, you will enjoy "Purr". That one has done quite nicely for me. Look for "Climbing Her Tower" and "Trouble In Thigh High Boots" in the near future. Then, depending on how those two books sell, I will tackle "Beauty and the Beast". In the meantime, enjoy my pictures of Robert Carlyle as Rumpelstiltskin/Mr. Gold. He's quite nasty looking but you can see he has a heart in that last picture of him kissing Belle. Now that's a love story!

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