{"id":1381,"date":"2011-03-10T08:39:01","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T16:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/?p=1381"},"modified":"2011-03-10T08:42:06","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T16:42:06","slug":"glbt-fairy-tale-week-mercy-loomis-cries-wolf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/glbt-fairy-tale-week-mercy-loomis-cries-wolf\/","title":{"rendered":"[GLBT Fairy Tale Week] Mercy Loomis Cries Wolf"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Today’s special guest is Mercy Loomis, author of “Cry Wolf” in the Bedknobs & Beantalks M\/M Fairy Tales anthology. She set her story in Wales, rich with its own magical traditions. It’s a story you won’t want to miss. You can visit Mercy online at\u00a0http:\/\/mercyloomis.blogspot.com<\/a> andwww.mercyloomis.com<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Boy Who Cried Wolf\u201d was not one of my favorite fairy tales as a child, though it was one I knew well enough. My favorite was \u201cThe Twelve Dancing Princesses,\u201d followed closely by \u201cThe Little Mermaid\u201d and \u201cBeauty and the Beast.\u201d Not the Disney versions, mind; I\u2019m older than that. I\u2019m not sure why I decided to write a story based on \u201cThe Boy Who Cried Wolf,\u201d but it\u2019s the one that came to mind when I started thinking about a m\/m erotic fairy tale.\u00a0\"\"<\/p>\n

\u201cCry Wolf\u201d is a bit different from the original, of course. I wanted my story to cover events after the traditional \u201ccrying wolf\u201d part of the tale, where my protagonist was faced with a potentially dangerous situation that no one believed him about. Then he discovers that the \u201cwolf\u201d is not what he thinks it is\u2026but now there\u2019s even greater danger than before.<\/p>\n

I tend to suffer from world-builder\u2019s disease, so part of the appeal of \u201cCry Wolf\u201d was that it gave me an excuse to showcase some of my story mythos that hadn\u2019t made it into print yet. Pookhas are a traditional faerie from the British Isles, and Wales in particular (where, in true Welsh fashion, it\u2019s sometimes spelled pwca), and in my mythology their race has a long, important history as one of the few fae who are equally comfortable here as they are in Faerie. That mythology meshed really well with what I wanted to do in \u201cCry Wolf.\u201d (You can read about another pookha in my free novella \u201cA Wild Hunt.\u201d The American pookhas refer to themselves as skinshifters to distinguish themselves from their more traditional Old World cousins.)<\/p>\n

\"\"Some of the fun with working on a known story like \u201cThe Boy Who Cried Wolf\u201d is finding that new angle, looking for the stories beyond and within the stories. I know a lot of people don\u2019t like the second half of \u201cInto the Woods,\u201d but I love it. I don\u2019t much believe in happily-ever-afters. When the characters stop being archetypes and start being people, that\u2019s when they become interesting. Why are they in this situation, and what happens to them afterwards? Stories don\u2019t really end; we just stop telling them at whatever point best supports the underlying reason we\u2019re telling the story in the first place.<\/p>\n

What is your favorite fairy tale?
\n———
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Today’s special guest is Mercy Loomis, author of “Cry Wolf” in the Bedknobs & Beantalks M\/M Fairy Tales anthology. She set her story in Wales, rich with its own magical traditions. It’s a story you won’t want to miss. You can visit Mercy online at\u00a0http:\/\/mercyloomis.blogspot.com andwww.mercyloomis.com \u201cThe Boy Who Cried Wolf\u201d was not one of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[52],"tags":[206,42,918,212],"class_list":["post-1381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event","tag-fairy-tale-week","tag-glbt-fairy-tales","tag-guest-posting","tag-mercy-loomis"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pzLgx-mh","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}