![]() ![]() But what happens when the lie is more significant? Sometimes they’re even almost a rite of passage, like the Tooth Fairy or Santa Claus. Sometimes these lies are understandable, forgivable. If-when-the truth comes out, there are also all sorts of responses: It’s for your own good. Parents lie to their children for all sorts of reasons. She lives in isolation with her father, who has claimed her entire life that there is no way to break the curse. Lena, the main character of Briar Girls, is cursed-the touch of her skin can kill. Then, of course, I had to figure out how to make these characters feel like real (fictional) people, with compelling thoughts, feelings, desires, and pains. ![]() How many characters could I jam into a plot and still hold it all together? I started with Rapunzel and the witch who cursed her, then threw in Sleeping Beauty, Jack (and the Beanstalk), Hansel and Gretel, and made up some of my own tales for good measure. When I started writing Briar Girls, I was mostly thinking about how much I wanted to create an epic fairy tale mashup. Fairy tale curses are familiar territory, but for Briar Girls, author Rebecca Kim Wells wanted to go beyond the supposed curse and look at what that magical apparent impediment would do to those that have it, and how they live going forward. ![]()
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