Tara Maya's Tales

Easter Bunny (Here Comes Peter Cottontail) is ready for downloading! This short story for young readers is only $0.99! Amazon Barnes and Noble Kobo Smashwords Have you ever wondered where the Easter Bunny comes from? How old he is? And how he happened to become a talking rabbit with a fondness for chocolate eggs? Gather around, children, and I shall tell you the legend of Peter Cottontail… Peek inside the first chapter: Long ago, before light bulbs or sliced bread, people lived in houses made of wattle and daub—which is just a fancy way of saying sticks and mud. They cooked their food over a hearth—which is just a fancy way of saying, an open fire. Dragons and goblins roamed the earth in those days, sowing terror and destroying whole villages. At one point, indeed, the goblins, who usually stayed in their cavern kingdoms below the earth, decided to conquer the upper world too. Armies of pointy-teethed, green skinned monsters poured across the land, burning houses, stea...

Douglas Kolacki writes exciting fantasy stories, often with a Christian flavour, about zombies, pirates and almost normal people. Today he tells us about his writing pleasures and inspirations. 1. What do you enjoy most about writing fantasy fiction?  Remaking this world into a place more to my liking, where all the rules change and fantastic things come to life.  2. Many people enjoy reading stories about undead creatures - ghosts, vampires, zombies. What do you think is the appeal?  I think that in the case of ghosts and vampires, it's the mystery of it all--who hasn't been intrigued by ghosts and the undead? In the case of zombies, there's a sense of adventure in combating all these people-turned-monsters that can't be parleyed with, bribed or placated; you have to use your wits and whatever you can scrounge, do or die. 3. The story selected by editor Rayne Hall s for the anthology Undead: Ten Tales of Zombies features a human who adjusts to...

You can find more fab anthologies in the Ten Tales series here: Rayne Hall's Dark Fantasy .