Today, I'm announcing my novelette, The House With Two Halves. It's a fantasy romance like Heart's Key. I always wanted to write an entire book of fairy tales. I'll get there. When I have four fairy tale novelettes, I'll have enough to make an anthology. That will be amazing, but one story at a time. Here's the synopsis:
The House With Two Halves
For once, a prince must be sacrificed for the kingdom instead of a princess. Prince Torsten has been raised to be a toothless lion. He's a man untrained in battle and unaccustomed to warfare. Instead, he was taught to paint beautifully, speak beautifully, and write beautifully. Was it just so he wouldn't put up a fight?
The Cover
This cover is from Shutterstock by an artist called Blackspring. They do a lot of fairy tale images. This one was a picture of a door. My big idea for the cover for The House With Two Halves was to cut the image in half. The cut created the tree in the middle, which was a delightful surprise for me when I was fiddling around with the image. I was hesitant to do a door for the image because the cover for Behind His Mask is a door in the middle of nowhere. My library of books is becoming large enough that finding entirely new concepts for covers is becoming a challenge. However! I like the way it turned out. I always like blocky, geometric art like this. Thanks to Blackspring for making something so charming.
The Extra Tail in the Fairy Tale
One of the features of this novelette is The Extra Tail in the Fairy Tale. At the end of each chapter, I take the opportunity to shift perspectives and tell a point of view other than Torsten's. Honestly, I loved doing it. It is one of the best parts of the book. It's a bit of a play on the birds and woodland creatures helping to clean the house in modern fairy tales. So, we get the perspective of people in the extra tail, but we also get the perspective of animals and objects. It's joyful and a little bit scary.
Where To Read
RoyalRoad - https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/85486/the-house-with-two-halves
Inkitt - https://www.inkitt.com/stories/romance/1255014
Quotev - https://www.quotev.com/story/16508843/The-House-with-Two-Halves/1
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