The Fae Folk

Sable Angel here...

Now that I've stumbled and entered a blank post--Sunday mornings are NOT my thing--, what say I give you the real stuff? As I thought, you'd prefer to actually read something.

At our last Angel get-together, we threw out the question, "Why did each of us pick the story we wrote for the Valentine's Anthology?" Simple enough question, right?

Well, not really. If you've ever had a passion, you understand the confusion having to make a decision can be. Writers' stories are children who constantly nag to be heard; just when you think you've satisfied one child, the others start complaining.

My faerie story was actually an idea about half a page long. At a conference I attended nearly seven years ago, the presenter gave us the task to put down an idea for a story without "thinking" about what the idea should be. For someone based in the accounting world at the time [yes, Sable Angel counted clouds], free association thinking was a bit foreign. This little Fae folk named Ailidh snuck her way into my head and planted a seed that was to become The Lending Library. But the story languished in my to-do files for a long time while I worked on honing my craft of writing by penning five other books. I attempted writing romance under a pseudonym, Celia Cooper, and didn't fare too badly. I also tried on writing mystery and suspense under my own name of C. L. Kraemer and seemed to have some success.

It was the very first attempt at writing a story, my dragon story Cyre Drake, and my little Fae that rang loud and clear with my writing muse. [Muses can be so pesky when allowed to reign free.] Once I found a villain and heroine supplied by a wonderful friend at the Antelope Valley Press, the story and my muse, went wild. They wanted to be heard in a longer format than the anthology but deadlines were looming and my dragon was throwing a dragon tantrum--something about being there first: children!

When Ailidh and Kayne [main characters] materialized fully for me, the writing seemed to flow freely. A contest Amber Angel had sponsored provided the name, and a more rounded version of a minor character, to complete the story.

I started researching the Fae folk for this story and got lost in the volumes of information of "wee" folk throughout the world. As with dragons, every culture has some version or other of Faeries. I choose to keep them small with magical abilities.

I wasn't sure I had captured a story worth reading until Allana and Amber Angel sent back enthusiastic personal reviews. We critique each other's work.

As we sat talking about our writing excursion, we realized we wanted to revisit the land of the Fae. So began the story for the 2011 St. Patrick's Anthology. The three Angels will be collaborating on a story involving the beginning of the wee ones mischief starting in the British Isles. By the end of the story, we'll see the Fae make their move to America just outside Eugene.

Oh, yeah. We have leprechauns, night elves, brawny men with bulging muscles and time travel with a slightly befuddled inventor professor in that story.

Stay tuned!

Sable Angel