SPAA Week - Fairy Tales, Travel, Plays, and Poetry

 

There are  a tremendous amount of self published books out there.  This week The Fish Shelf, along with other bloggers, is highlighting self published authors and indie publishers that could use a bit more recognition.

Today we are focusing on fairy and folk tales, travel, and poetry/plays.

Fairy and Folk Tales

Graham Watkins’  Welsh Myth and Legends series are quite good and include a good mixture of history.

Mark Egerton’s The Haunted History of Huntingshire presents ghost stories from the shire.  A spooky fun read.

Michelle McLaughlin has several fairy tale collections out.  The series is called Fairy Tales the World Over.  These collections are quite good.

Jan Hawkins’ Ghosts of the Ocean Road is a good collection of Australian folk tales.

Sarah Ashley writes a series of books that focus on ghost folklore

Sandy Arno Lyon’s  book about Colorado ghosts, Colorado’s Most Haunted, is quite good.

Lynne Garner’s Anansi The Trickster Spider is an well done collection of Anansi folklore.

 

 

Travel

Claire Splan writes very well about Paris.

Michael Powell  has a series of For 91 Days in - - -a variety of places, in fact.  They can be quite entertaining.

Morgan Guillaume’s Goodnight Portland is a nice Portland taste on the more famous book.

Catherine McCormack’s The Art of Looking Up  presents a variety of famous buildings by looking up at their ceilings.

 

Poetry and Plays

Morgan Nikola-Wren’s Magic with Skin On is a collection of poetry inspired by fairy tales.  If you like Anne Sexton, you should check it out.

Susan Marie Molloy’s Indigo Fantasy: Poems in Blue is a good collection of poems centering around blue.

Ilana Water’s Paying the Piper is a poetry retelling of the Pied Piper.

Erik Straker’s Fairy Tale Destruction  is a coleltion of very dark poetry.

Crystal Smith-Connelly’s For I am Zeus is a funny collection of plays based on Greek mythology.