Cherry Potts, Writer

Category: fairytales

  • Blackheath Cendrillon: Prince Charming … alarming

    Blackheath Cendrillon: Prince Charming … alarming

    L.C.Spinetti here again, Cherry’s too busy with Arachne Press to cover the unfolding drama at court, so REALly!? have given me a short commission to keep up with action in the small kingdom of BlackHeath.  Quite a change from covering Crufts. So you’ll never guess who I met on the heath this morning. The Royal…

  • Blackheath Cendrillon: Princesses’ Hour

    Blackheath Cendrillon: Princesses’ Hour

    A Guest blog here from L.C. Spinetti, roving reporter for REALly?! magazine, part of the REALly?! Empire which includes everyone’s favourite REALity show At Home With the Haltieres™, (the first installment of the fifth season is aired on July 17th at a special showing at Blackheath Halls.  You can book your tickets here.) Last night…

  • Haunted by Fairy Tales

    So I’m on a business trip in Germany, slightly reluctantly (too close to Christmas, weather turning bad) and I discover that Kassel, where I am at a meeting of a European Project is the home town of the Brothers Grimm.  Drawing a veil over the journey which was definitely in the Epic rather than F-T…

  • Dark and Stormy

    Dark & Stormy A Halloween piece … Winter, spicy gingerbread, slavery and marriage to an insanely jealous man … another exercise from WOOA, sparked off by not having got around to submitting anything on the Dark & Stormy theme to Liars’ League, and for once I didn’t come up with a story. I keep dark…

  • My Life in Fairytales

    I told stories before I could write.  I mean proper stories, not fibs.  My Mum is a writer and she told us stories every night to get us to go to sleep, she usually had characters who were a bit grumpy, I have vivid memories of lying in the lower bunk aged 3 or 4,…