Category: Book Series: Snow White and Her Queen

Read the review here:
https://lesbireviewed.wordpress.com/2022/11/02/book-video-review-snow-white-and-her-queen-2-by-anna-ferrara-ebook/

Thank you once again, LESBIreviewed! 🙂

When I first wrote Snow White and Her Queen, I intended it to be a standalone. It was my first book after all, I was just happy to get it done. But then I started hearing readers say they hoped to see more of them. So I read the story again then realised I too wanted to see more of them. Thus I began to wonder and ponder what ifs… and Shrek came to mind. Then Beauty and the Beast. Then Cinderella. And relationship dynamics beyond the honeymoon stage… and soon my brain was doing what it likes to do. The ideas began crowding my mind and the only way to get them away was to write them down…  TLDR: I just felt like it. Snow White and Her Queen 2 seemed the right thing to do.

Just in case you’re curious about the official stories: 

Cinderella: http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm021.html 

Beauty and the Beast: http://www.maerchenlexikon.de/texte/te425C-007.htm 

Merry Christmas everybody!

Katherine – When I was writing Snow White and Her Queen 1, she was a Greta Garbo-Maleficent-Cartoon Evil Queen hybrid. This round, because I had been infusing my eyes with I bastardi di Pizzofalcone reruns, Rosaria (of Alex x Rosaria) was who I imagined most of the time when writing her. 

Eirwen – In line with the above, Alex (of Rosaria x Alex) was who came to mind. And a very fair Megan Fox. Mashed up in the way only my mind can do. 

Petronella – young Erika Linder 

Isabella – young Kristen Stewart 

Deora – Gossip Girl’s Lily van der Woodsen

For those who don’t know Alex x Rosaria, here’s YouTube: 

Cover reveal… anybody excited?

Snow White and Her Queen 2. I didn’t expect it to be. I sat down and set out to work on The Privileged Ones but by the end of the hour, ideas for Snow White and Her Queen 2 were swarming and it ended up being what I spent the rest of the day, week and month doing. You must know I’m seldom in control when writing. My brain and heart want what they want and the rest of me just follows. 

Ok these posts are starting to all sound the same, but here goes… Another sale this week (Nov 4 – Nov 8) with the very superb iheartlesfic.com: Get Snow White and Her Queen, the book that started my lesfic writing journey at only $3.99 (Usual: $8.99), along with FREE or very discounted books by TB Markinson, Monica McCallan, Miranda MacLeod, K.B. Draper, Jax Meyer, Niamh Murphy, Nicole Higginbotham-Hogue & S. T. Gibson! Click here to see the full list of on-sale books! 🙂

This time by Carol of LESBIreviewed who did it on video:

Thanks for getting my attempt to write in old world language, Carol. And okay, one day I’ll tell you what Queen Katherine and Eirwen did next. ♥

Something awful happened to me recently; something that might have changed me forever… but I agreed to be part of I Heart Lesfic’s Mega December Sale before the ground got pulled out from under my feet so here you go, Snow White and Her Queen, my very first lesfic novel, at only $2.99 from now till 2 Jan 2019 (regular retail price: $8.99). I’ll tell you more next week but for now, you might want to grab some heavily-discounted lesfics from I Heart Lesfic’s Mega December Sale page before the promotion ends. I hope you had a Merry Christmas and will have an equally Happy New Year.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was published in the early 19th century. Because I wanted Snow White and Her Queen to be possibly real, it had to take place a couple of hundred years before that, long enough before for the truth to be distorted beyond recognition. I settled on the 16th century because it had castles, huts in the woods, inequality and violent punishments—all the things I needed for my story—and I put my characters within it. It was a very different time back then. Average life expectancy was 35 years. Many died in infancy, more died in childhood, even more died in childbirth. The ones who survived lived till age 50 or 60 only. The average age of marriage was, as a result, much earlier than it is today. It was also arranged, for reasons that had absolutely nothing to do with love or romance. Girls could legally be married from the age of 12 onwards, though it was usually only the girls from rich families who married young. Thus, in accordance with those circumstances, my poor little rich Queen Katherine was made to marry at age 13.

Snow White and Her Queen was the very first book I published. Naturally, I made a ton of rookie mistakes while doing so. While I’ve since fixed the typos, I can’t help but cringe every time I imagine what my first few buyers must have thought of me. So, if you’re an early buyer of Snow White and Her Queen and have the version that says ‘First Edition’ (in the copyright page), drop me a note and I’ll send you a coupon to get $7.99 off any purchase on annaferrarabooks.com. Just my little way of saying sorry and thanks and love you!

Queen Katherine – Greta Garbo / Angelina Jolie in Maleficent / Disney’s cartoon version minus the perpetually evil stare and crazy eyebrows.

Princess Eirwen – This was tough since who can we really say is, universally, the fairest of us all? In the end I used Megan Fox. Megan Fox but many, many, many, many shades fairer.

was watching the Disney version with my mother at the cinema when I was either 2 or 3 or 4. I remember being mainly petrified by the wicked Queen on screen and might have even cried during the show itself. Whether or not that happened can’t be verified now because Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs turned out to be the last movie I ever saw with my mother. A year or so after that, she walked out on us and we never did stuff together ever again. Am pretty sure that screwed me up. And no, I didn’t gush over the Prince or fantasise about getting married like a Princess after the movie. I still don’t.

I was on the train home from my day job one evening when some article about true stories behind classic fairy tales popped up on Facebook. It took my mind into that place my fellow commuters never get to go and suddenly it dawned on me that the wicked Queen in the Snow White story sounded really fishy. Obsessing over another woman’s appearance, hunting her down, giving her gifts, going mad when she gets married, all because you’re jealous of her looks? Unrealistic. I’ve never seen a woman behave that way when envious of another. In real life, a woman only gets that sort of crazy when afflicted with a bad case of crush. Right?

I sought the original version of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and more gay possibilities came up between the lines – “From that hour on whenever she looked at Snow-White her heart turned over inside her body… until she had no peace day and night.” “At first she did not want to go to the wedding, but she found no peace. She had to go and see the young queen. When she arrived she recognized Snow-White, and terrorised she could only stand there without moving.”

Of course, the Grimm Brothers cited vanity as the explanation for her behaviour – “From that hour on whenever she looked at Snow-White her heart turned over inside her body, so great was her hatred for the girl. The envy and pride grew ever greater, like a weed in her heart, until she had no peace day and night.” – but it made me wonder, what if their male heteronormative gaze simply misunderstood the Queen or whoever it was that served as inspiration for that character?

I arrived at my stop, got off the train and began to write the story from a completely different perspective. My kind of perspective with my understanding of what truly makes a woman that jealous. That’s how Snow White and Her Queen came about.

of Snow White and Her Queen, do also read the Grimms’ version of Snow White’s story, written by the brothers in 1812:

Once upon a time in midwinter, when the snowflakes were falling like feathers from heaven, a queen sat sewing at her window, which had a frame of black ebony wood. As she sewed she looked up at the snow and pricked her finger with her needle. Three drops of blood fell into the snow. The red on the white looked so beautiful that she thought to herself, “If only I had a child as white as snow, as red as blood, and as black as the wood in this frame.”

Soon afterward she had a little daughter who was as white as snow, as red as blood, and as black as ebony wood, and therefore they called her Little Snow-White. And as soon as the child was born, the queen died.

A year later the king took himself another wife. She was a beautiful woman, but she was proud and arrogant, and she could not stand it if anyone might surpass her in beauty. She had a magic mirror. Every morning she stood before it, looked at herself, and said:

Mirror, mirror, on the wall,
Who in this land is fairest of all?

To this the mirror answered:

You, my queen, are fairest of all.

Published 21 April 2017.

Before there was Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, there was another story some preferred not to tell.

“Mirror, mirror on the wall, who in this land is fairest of all?”

“You, my Queen, are fairest of all,” the Princess had said, unravelling a nightmare of obsession and forbidden desire.

This intimate retelling of the popular Grimms’ fairy tale will change your understanding of the wicked Queen’s infamous jealousy forever.
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