Household Tales by Susan Price
Telling Tales The Story Collector Head and Tales Crack a Story Over the years, I've put together several collections of folk tales. For one thing, I love folk tales. And myth and legend. And folk ballads. I think learning folk ballads off by heart and trying to rewrite them, taught me more about constructing a story than anything else. But a second, important reason for the folk-tale retellings was income. In the far-off olden days before self-publishing, it used to be said that a writer had to publish at least a book a year in order to make anything like a living. The folk story anthologies allowed me to do this because they were quick to write, the plot of the story being a given. I never simply regurgitated a story cadged from someone else's book. From the age of about ten, I'd read widely ...