Jim C. Hines is a Hugo-award winning author of a series of princess fairy tales reimagined. Jim has taken the whole fairy tale Princess trope to a new and darkly glorious confection, combining multiple versions into a new saga where the women band together to solve their problems. Come listen as we delve into folklore retelling and cunning new ideas. Damn the Narrativium, full speed ahead!
- Jim’s Website
- Jim on BlueSky
- Jim on Tumblr
- Jim on the book of Faces
- The Stepsister Scheme
Mentions from Episode 214:
- Ye Xian
- Anne Rice’s porn version – The claiming of sleeping beauty
- Jim’s rant about using Rape as a motivator for female characters
- Folktexts – OMG everyone needs to read this if they love fairy tales!
- Talia, or the Sleeping Beauty
- Sleeping Beauty via Perceforest
- Giambattista Basile’s version of Sleeping Beauty, Sun, Moon, and Talia
- Types of heroines – Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index
- Ashliman’s folk texts
- Fables comic books
- xkcd Ten Thousand