Happy Mother’s Day 2024!
Today is Mother’s Day in the United States, so Happy Mother’s Day, Champions! On behalf of children everywhere: I hope you mothers have a lovely day, thank you for all you do and all the sacrifices you have made, and we love you so much! And a huge thank you to all the women who have influenced, taught, and loved us even if we aren’t their kid(s)! Mother or mother-figure, the love and support you show others is world changing.
To celebrate this day, I wanted to remind you Timeless Fairy Tale/Fairy Tale Enchantress Champions about my mother-themed short, “A Mother’s Responsibility� ()
A Mother’s Responsibility is a companion short story to Snow White, the final book in my Timeless Fairy Tale series and it has spoilers for the series, so you won’t want to read it if you haven’t read Snow White yet!
Snow White’s loving relationship with her step mother, Faina, was the driving force behind the changes I made to my retelling of the fairy tale. But it always struck me as slightly unfair that I didn’t actually get to show you Champions much of their relationship due to how the events had to play out to match the original fairy tale. I loved writing this little short story because it let you see that just as Snow White deeply adores Faina; Faina is fiercely protective of Snow White.
But the Mother’s day fun doesn’t end there! If you’re a Magiford fan, I have a few other family themed short stories I want to mention:
First up is “Family Bonding,� () which was the first extra short story released for the Magic on Main Street Series. This short story gives you the opportunity to tag along with Jade’s family for an afternoon of “fun� and it is also a prequel so you can read it without spoiling anything for the books in the trilogy. I wrote this short because I wanted to show you more about slayers, and Jade’s family specifically, so you could see where she gets her intense training philosophy from!
Next is “Parents� Night,� () which is a companion short story to the Court of Midnight and Deception series, so if you haven’t read Leila’s books you’ll want to skip this! I’ll confess, I love this short mostly because it has some Lord Linus antics, and Linus is one of my favorite Magiford characters to write, but it was also nice to be able to tie up a few lose ends I didn’t get a chance to address in Leila’s series, specifically regarding her relationship with her very adorably midwestern and very supportive mother.
And last is “A Family Tea Party,� () which takes place after the events of the Pack of Dawn and Destiny series. I almost didn’t include this one in the list because it has SO MANY spoilers for the trilogy- so don’t read it if you haven’t finished all three books yet! But I like how each of these Magiford shorts shows how very different families can be while still loving each other. For your sake though I really hope your Mother’s Day celebration doesn’t involve drinking fae charmed tea!
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