Description

If ENCHANTED is described as The Frog Prince meets Cinderella and Jack and the Beanstalk, then HERO is Petronella (a feminist retelling of the Grimms' Master Maid) meets Hansel and Gretel and The Snow Queen.

Once Upon a Time meets Princess Bride

Rough-and-tumble Saturday Woodcutter thinks she's the only one of her sisters without any magic—until the day she accidentally conjures an ocean in the backyard. With her sword in tow, Saturday sets sail on a pirate ship, only to find herself kidnapped and whisked off to the top of the world. Is Saturday powerful enough to kill the mountain witch who holds her captive and save the world from sure destruction? And, as she wonders grumpily, "Did romance have to be part of the adventure?" As in Enchanted, readers will revel in the fragments of fairy tales that embellish this action-packed story of adventure and, yes, romance.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/happyeverafter/2013/09/29/alethea-kontis-interview-hero/2893915/

Notes

New York Times bestselling author

Alethea Kontis

aletheakontis.com/

http://clcdonline.com/blog/?p=94

http://www.usatoday.com/story/happyeverafter/2013/09/29/alethea-kontis-interview-hero/2893915/

http://www.thoughtsandroses.blogspot.in/2012/05/exclusive-interview-with-alethea-kontis.html

http://www.roundtablepodcast.com/2012/12/20-minutes-with-alethea-kontis/

Nominated for the 2013 Andre Norton Award for Fantasy

2014 DABWAHA nominee in the Paranormal/Fantasy/SF category

2014 Romance Writers of America Prism Award nominee

Author of the YA companion fantasy volume to ENCHANTED, a 2014 World Book Night Selection, a 2013 YALSA Top Ten BFYA and Andre Norton Award Finalist, as well as a 2012 Gelett Burgess Award winner cited by Kirkus as a “Best Teen Book of 2012”Audio, Film/Dramatic/Commercial