Kristina Elyse Butke
The Quickfire Fantasy Book Tag
I found this book tag at Beneath a Thousand Skies (Rowena Andrews filled it out). It's all about books in the fantasy genre, which as you...
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Kristina Elyse Butke
- Mar 20
- 2 min
A Fairy Tale Childhood: Trina Schart Hyman
This is a short blog series where I’m going to discuss my first encounters with fairy tales growing up. They’re not going to be reviews,...
Kristina Elyse Butke
- Mar 17
- 2 min
A Fairy Tale Childhood: "Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics"
This is a short blog series where I’m going to discuss my first encounters with fairy tales growing up. They’re not going to be reviews,...
Kristina Elyse Butke
- Mar 14
- 2 min
A Fairy Tale Childhood: Jim Henson's "The Storyteller"
This is a short blog series where I’m going to discuss my first encounters with fairy tales growing up. They’re not going to be reviews,...
Kristina Elyse Butke
- Mar 11
- 2 min
A Fairy Tale Childhood: Shelley Duvall’s "Faerie Tale Theatre"
This is a short blog series where I’m going to discuss my first encounters with fairy tales growing up. They’re not going to be reviews,...
Kristina Elyse Butke
- Mar 9
- 2 min
The Book Snob Tag
This tag comes from We Write at Dawn, and is all about the hoity-toity opinions you might have about books and reading. Don't feel guilty...
Kristina Elyse Butke
- Mar 7
- 11 min
Moxie Books: March Writing Prompts
Today's post comes from Moxie Books, a website all about helping writers write. I did a post in January but unfortunately missed out on...
Kristina Elyse Butke
- Mar 5
- 3 min
Pre-Order Campaigns: Stress & Swag
One more item to add to the author's list of things to do for their book: pre-order campaigns! As a reader, I actually love these. Many...
Kristina Elyse Butke
- Mar 3
- 10 min
Writer's #Ask
Today's Writers #Ask meme comes from tumblr user M. Kirin, a fellow author and artist. M. Kirin's blog is full of all sorts of juicy,...
Kristina Elyse Butke
- Mar 1
- 3 min
Back to the Drawing Board
Well, well, well... Son of the Siren has officially seen five different beta readers and gotten partial reads and feedback from one...
Kristina Elyse Butke
- Feb 27
- 4 min
The YA Fantasy Reading Project is on Hold!
If you recall, at the end of the year 2021 I read 38 YA fantasy books (well, a couple that were closer to horror) in order to do research...
Kristina Elyse Butke
- Feb 25
- 2 min
Erutan and Elythia
In Son of the Siren, the Fae, the tricksters, and giants all call the forest of Elythia home. It's a wandering wood where it comes and...