I’ve tried many different ways of getting my stories out of my head and into a format that others can read. My earliest attempts were in notebooks, first with pencil and then with pen. I typed my first story on Microsoft Works, the first word processor I ever used (is that even still around, anymore?) But during my late high school and college years, my favorite was still pen and paper. I typed my words up later, printing them out to give to friends and turn in to professors

"What did you do with the beautiful maiden?" The old woman just giggled: "I'm here right now. Why do you keep rejecting me?" This tale comes to us from The Turnip Princess and Other Newly Discovered Fairy tales, compiled in the late 1850s by Franz Xaver Von Schonwerth. Schonwerth began traveling in the 1850s, "recording his observations and the stories of the people he interviewed." About five hundred of the tales were left unpublished and were all but forgotten until discove