Are YOU the biggest fan of FTN?

Are you the biggest fan of Regina Doman's Fairy Tale Novels for teens?

This summer...

beware of thieves.

Alex O'Donnell and the Forty Cyberthieves

a fairy tale retold 

(this is the fifth book in the Fairy Tale Novels series)

As part of a promotion for these books, the author is holding a contest. Details can be found HERE. Prizes range from free MP3 downloads, signed books, and a copy of the student film The Shadow of the Bear when it is completed.

These books are among my favorites. I wrote... not a review, per se, but some kind of post on them HERE.

The official website: www.fairytalenovels.com
The fan-forum (the forum I am constantly talking about): www.fairytalenovels.proboards.com

My idea for the entering contest: design my own fairy tale novels T-shirt, and get a picture of me riding my unicycle with it on. Mmmhmmm. That sounds cool. 

To all my friends: If you haven't read these books yet, I strongly suggest doing so! I have extra copies at home, which I am only too happy to loan. HOWEVER, if enough people request them at our library, they might actually buy the books. When I requested them years ago, I had to wait a YEAR before they got one of them in from inter-library loan. And it was the second book in the series. Come on, lets get our library to get some good books-- not the overwhelming majority of Scholastic stuff!

Ink and Fairydust

I just realized that I have not posted the more recent Ink & Fairydust newsletter/magazines! The Fairy Tale Novel Forum, which I am a part of, puts together this monthly publication. I've written and co-written several articles, have a monthly comic, work on some graphics, and have just started a monthly semi-column.

We've been working on some major changes-- slowly moving towards a far more organized, professional magazine. Within the next couple of months we should have reached that point. :)

Older issues can be found at Ink and Fairydust on Issuu.

Er... please ignore the links under the embeded magazines. Issuu has that in their code... its not part of the magazine.

March 2010-- Jane Austen

Open publication - Free publishing - More rosary

I think my Fine Linen Drama friends, who just finished Pride and Prejudice, will enjoy. :)

April 2010-- Spring

Open publication - Free publishing - More awakening

May 2010-- May/Mary

Open publication - Free publishing - More virgin mary

We have both Catholics and Protestants writing on the Blessed Mother. I have to say I was rather surprised and pleased by the Protestants' devotion to Mary. :)
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This is what I do for fun. :)

So random thing about the fourm I am on (www.fairytalenovels.proboards.com)

There are several hundred discussions on there... I mean that seriously. This one topic was named "Knights and Ladies of the Sacra Cor" (if you have ever read Waking Rose by Regina Doman, you know what that means. Or if you are a fluent Latin scholar, you should have a WEE BIT of an idea).

Anyway, Lady Rose (a member of the fourm) made up detailing the discussions that had occured on the one particular thread. This list was made on page 63. It is now 218 pages long. :)

I assure you that after discussions about hair dying, frilly shirts, and cheese (including some wonderful poems on cheese), we got back on topic. In fact, we started a discussion on Catholicism vs. Protestantism, which got so large it got its own new thread. That discussion is wonderful, there are many Catholics and Protestants on the fourm. The discussion is very charitable, theological, and challenging. :) See what I do for fun? hehe

Introdutcions
the traditional roles of men and women
armour/weapons
chivalry/manhood
Sacra Cor guys
curtsies/bows
The Rebelution
Ladies uplifting Knights
prayers/rosary/sacrifice
Modesty
Elvish names
Strider/Faramir
Maidens wielding swords/self defense
Lecturing at Mass (reading the readings)
guns vs. swords
Master Xavier vs Rob in fist fight
Trebuchets
The wisdom of wearing cloaks while sword fighting
modern weapons
Wisdom
Virtue
politics
Women leaders
Homschool/socilazation
What should boys work on?
Dream husbands
Good qualities in a lady
difference between boys and girls
flirting
brothers
getting boys on the forum
Master Xavier's infamous boyfriend suggestion
getting married at a young age
Braveheart/El Cid/Gladiator
Pirates of the Caribbean (Will IS NOT a pirate!)
Orlando Bloom
Misspelling Tolkiens name
Japanese movies
Chivalry in Jane Austen
movies
swearing
cheese
Emma (different movie versions)
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Smeagol impersonations
conspirecy theories (Operation Cupcake!)
Doing Hard Things
acting
"Enchanted"
Sacra Cor Group/our own Mercy Collage
frilly shirts
Paul Xaviers's fiancees/dying his hair
Prince Caspian
taking things lightly or seriously
ILCHC/meetin Regina Doman
Having a fan get together
Accents or non-accents

Newsletter

Okay, I know that most of you have heard me rave about Regina Doman's Fairytale Novels.

As you probably have also heard, I spend 90% of my computer time on the fourm, which is manned by faithfilled, crazy fans of Regina Doman (people like myself, in other words). We have interesting discussions on everything from religion to music, random discussions on everything from school to ear wax, and of course the Family Tree, which is a major roleplaying section. Book reviews by fellow teens, sharing and critiquing of art, poetry, and other scribblings... Anyways, it is wonderful.

We, the fourm, would like to present you with our second every newsletter! I found this site called Issuu where you can publish documents online. Thanks to that site, I can now share this issue with you. :)

It is a monthly newsletter that we put together. This issue is 18 pages long, but I do suggest printing it out and reading the whole thing. Its worth it.

This month's theme is RAIN.

Oh, yeah, my username is Nenetta. Now you know what I wrote/drew in there. :P

Click here to see it!

And from the lovely Admin comes this note: 

If you would like to recieve the entire paper as an e-mail attachment (in .doc format), please send your e-mail address to inkandfairydust@yahoo.com under the subject heading "Ink and Fairydust Subscription"

And I can personally vouch that Elena will not  spam you or give your email address away.

Half a Week in St. Louie

Ben and I stayed an extra 4 days in St. Louis with Grandma and Papa! Here is a picture I took of the arch. I didn't edit it yet...

We toured the brewery! That was really neat.

Grandma and Papa eat out for lunch and don't eat dinner. So we got to go out to eat every day! And we also got deserts each time. :) Even the time we went to Arbys. I got a Jamocha shake! YUM!

On Monday we ate at the Four Seasons Hotel restraunt. It was so fancy. They had fresh ham and sushi at the buffet bar! I ate so much I could hardly move, and I wasn't hungry for dinner or even much breakfast the next morning. We looked around the hotel, at least the places you are allowed if you aren't staying there. Everything was so neat and fancy. The workers there opened doors for you (even car doors). Everytime they did that it made me feel like giggling, or pretending I was a princess. :) I think regular people need to hold doors more often. Then everyone can feel like a princess (or prince or king or whatever). Just like Rose said in The Shadow of the Bear: "Have you ever felt that there's a story going on that everyone is a part of, but not everyone knows about? As if the people you meet aren't just their plain, prosaic selves but are actually princes and princesses, or fantasical creatures who have hidden their real shape, who don't remember who they are?" (I'm paraphasing here, I couldn't find the quote in the book so I just went from memory)

There I go, rambling agin. *supercilious sigh* lol, look at me, being supercilious to myself! Okay, back on topic. Trip to St. Louis.

We also took a tour of the Fox theater. We took a ton of pictures, but it was dark so they didn't turn out great. :P They had this whole hallway where the cast would sign their names on the wall. I took pictures of a bunch- they had nearly every musical imaginable there. :)

This was the chandelier at the Fox. It looked tiny, even from the very top balcony, but it is actually 12 feet in diameter! It reminds me of the chandelier in The Phantom of the Opera. *shivers delightedly*

We didn't get to go onstage :( because they are working on the stage. Did you know that every show brings in its own stage floor? So that you can do all those disappearing things with trapdoors and whatnot.

We also went to the art museum (yay!) but half the stuff looked like it belonged in a history museum, and a ton of it was abstract (aka, utterly pointless blobs of paint in my humble opinion. One was these four celieng-high sheets of plain gray, shiny metal. And that is art...?) They had a couple Monet paintings, and several awesome realistic ones. I got a few ideas for artwork.

We did tons of other stuff, and had a Blast.