![]() ![]() I was delighted with the way she had the entire kingdom sleeping, as in the original fairy tale, and figured out a way to deal with them waking up in the 21st Century. But with A Kiss in Time, Alex Flinn has written the light-hearted teen fantasy I was shooting for. Mind you, Orson Scott Card has already done a magnificent job in his book for adults, Enchantment. ![]() My own attempt to write the story gives me that much more admiration for Alex Flinn pulling it off so beautifully. ![]() What's more, in my version, all of her family and her life before were dead, so it got rather depressing. How does she get an ID card? A passport? I couldn't decide whether she'd get media attention and be a celebrity princess or just adapt to modern life as some sort of refugee. Unfortunately, I got bogged down with details. Now, I've got a special interest in Sleeping Beauty tales, because several years ago I attempted to write my own version where Sleeping Beauty was sleeping in a castle in Germany, and is woken by an American military kid whose last name is Prince. When I heard she was doing a version of "Sleeping Beauty," where Sleeping Beauty is woken up by a modern day American teen, I simply had to snap it up. ![]() I loved Alex Flinn's Beastly, where she sets the fairy tale "Beauty and the Beast" in modern-day New York. On my second day of vacation, I committed the wonderful luxury of staying in bed until noon and reading a novel. ![]()
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