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Snow White – fair or foul?
What if Snow White wasn’t a princess? What if her step-mother wasn’t evil? What if the conflict wasn’t propelled by magic, but by popularity? Explore these questions and more in this collection of six Snow White retellings.

The Poet’s Missing Daughter by Phoenix Xiao tells the tale of a missing girl and her step mother who has something supernatural to hide.

An elven sorceress faces an impossible choice between saving one life or many in Julian Barr’s Kingdom of the Mirror.

A young girl fights monsters in the dark world of sleep in J. W. Atkinson’s Snow White and the Silent Death.

A young beauty influencer finally reveals all regarding the machinations of her step mother in Mark Hood’s Skin Deep.

In Marlene Simonette’s The Many Failures of Evil, a halfling child must relive the painful memories of her past and fight for a family.

A mysterious message prompts a young woman to cross the line of right and wrong in Robyn Sarty’s The Fruitful Heist.

These Tales from the Treehouse will leave you spell-bound and wanting more!

Phoenix Xiao is the pen name of a young writer from the ever-green Pacific Northwest. Phoenix, as one might deduce from her chosen name, is a fan of both folklore and birds. There is no limit to the amount of love she carries in her heart of hearts for her avian friends. In fact, she loves birds so much that she is attending college for the purpose of learning how to look at birds for a living. A lot of her writing draws from folklore, particularly Chinese folklore, as long as her parents are willing to indulge her weirdly specific and occasionally inane questioning. She has no pets (not by choice) but does have a possibly unhealthy quantity of stuffed animals and a spider plant named Charlotte. When not writing, she can be found looking at birds, or tempting the carpal tunnel gods in other ways like drawing and crocheting.

Julian Barr is the author of the Ashes of Olympus and Tooth and Blade trilogies. He first fell in love with all things ancient and magical in childhood, when he staged the epic tale of the Emperor Claudius using sock puppets. After his PhD in Classics, he did a brief stint as a schoolteacher, hated being called ‘sir,’ and dived into storytelling. Although he remains open to the possibilities of sock puppet theatre, fantasy is his passion. He has published scholarly research on Roman medicine and the gastronomic habits of Centaurs but prefers to think of himself as an itinerant bard. Currently he is working to expand Kingdom of the Mirror into a series of novels for launch in 2021.
Follow Julian for more information: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/16632084.Julian_Barr 

J.W. Atkinson finds the time to write between teaching and living in a house with his wife and four children. He entertains fans with weekly fiction on Patreon.
You can join him on his journey at https://bit.ly/SilentDeath

Mark Hood is an author living and working in the English county of Shropshire which allows him plenty of opportunity to stare out of the window at gorgeous scenery when he should be writing.
Despite a background in science and technology, and his typically sceptical outlook on anything supernatural, he brings a life-long fascination with mythical creatures and ancient legends to his work.
Find out more about Mark and his writing at https://www.thefairieswantmedead.com/

Marlene Simonette is an absent-minded bookwyrm who favors the Fantasy genre. Good food, board games and character-wrangling are a few of her favorite things. Her love of roleplaying threads and webcomics often distract her from her WIPs, as does obsessing over precise word choice.
She blogs sporadically at: https://marlenesimonetteauthor.blogspot.com/

Robyn Sarty is an avid fan of all things Disney, and loves stories with happy endings, where good triumphs over evil. She tries to incorporate these elements into all of her writing, but is easily distracted by sparkly things and glitter. She lives in rural Nova Scotia with her very own Prince Charming. When she’s not reading or writing, she can be found baking cakes and trying to convince Charming that they need to adopt a puppy.
You can find out more about Robyn and her writing at www.RobynSarty.com