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Today is part two of two where we are talking to Golden Angel about her novels. Over these 2 weeks you will have learned about her incredible journey of writing 70 books in 10 years, how she got into the world of TikTok and her Author Tips for Authors, and her writing journey both indie and traditionally publishing her novels.
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Golden Angel is a USA Today best-selling author and self-described bibliophile with a “kinky” bent who loves to write stories for the characters in her head. If she didn’t get them out, she’s pretty sure she’d go just a little crazy.
She is happily married, old enough to know better but still too young to care, and a big fan of happily-ever-afters, strong heroes and heroines, and sizzling chemistry.
When she’s not writing, she can often be found on the couch reading, in front of her sewing machine making a new cosplay, hanging out with her friends, or wandering the Maryland Renaissance Fair.
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Speaker A: Welcome to Freya’s Fairy Tales, where we believe fairy tales are both stories we enjoy as children and something that we can achieve ourselves.
Speaker A: Each week, we will talk to authors about their favorite fairy tales when they were kids and their adventure to holding their very own fairy tale in their hands.
Speaker A: At the end of each episode, we will finish off with the fairy tale or short story read as close to the original author’s version as possible.
Speaker A: I am your host, Freya Victoria.
Speaker A: I’m an audiobook narrator that loves reading fairy tales, novels and bringing stories to life through narration.
Speaker A: I’m also fascinated by talking to authors and learning about their why and how for creating their stories.
Speaker A: We have included all of the links for today’s author and our show in the show notes, today is part two of two, where we are talking to Golden Angel about her novels.
Speaker A: Over the past two weeks, you will have heard about her incredible journey of writing 70 books in ten years, how she got into the world of TikTok, and her author tips for authors and her writing journey, both indie and traditionally published A Season for Smugglers, Deception and Discipline.
Speaker A: Book three.
Speaker A: Well, his daring debutante rescue reveals a traitor to the crown.
Speaker A: Lily Davy’s first and final if she has anything to say about it.
Speaker A: Season in London is mercifully coming to an end.
Speaker A: Exhausted by the parade of balls importuning gentlemen and the endless dismissal of her suspicions about a certain captain, lily wants nothing more than to return to her quiet life of country walks and intensive study.
Speaker A: Unfortunately for this blue stalking, she has besieged en route to Derbyshire and kidnapped by a highwayman in London to assist his brother, the brand new Earl of Talbot.
Speaker A: Captain Nathan Jones is on the hunt for the traitor to the crown.
Speaker A: But when it becomes clear that Ms.
Speaker A: Davy’s life is very much in danger, captain Jones is dispatched to ensure the reluctant debutante travels safely.
Speaker A: Escorting her safely home will also give him the perfect opportunity to question Ms.
Speaker A: Davies about the highly dubious gifts she’s been receiving from the French.
Speaker A: As Captain Jones becomes the unlikely hero to a very uncooperative damsel in distress, he quickly learns that rescuing Miss Davies is only the beginning of his troubles.
Speaker A: One unfortunate compromise leaves this pair with no choice but to head for the altar, and the unnecessary distraction just might ruin his opportunity to uncover the identity of the trader once and for all.
Speaker B: Now, we did not talk about so you have 70 books under two different names.
Speaker B: How do you come up with what you’re going to write about?
Speaker B: Like, where did the ideas stop?
Speaker C: I have literal notebooks full of story ideas.
Speaker C: The story ideas just never kind of stop.
Speaker C: Whenever I read something, whenever I watch something, if something happens in my life, if my friends are telling me a story about something, like literally everything, my brain just starts going, oh, well, that’s kind of cool, but what if it happened this way?
Speaker C: And it’s like, yeah, it’s a thing that I cannot seem to turn off.
Speaker C: And in my head before I started writing, it would be like, oh, what if it happened this way?
Speaker C: And I would just kind of, like, play out in my head and maybe it would play out again if it was a really interesting thing.
Speaker C: Or I might go in a different way, but then something else would inspire me and then that story would play out in my head.
Speaker C: And then once I started writing, I started writing all the story ideas down in my little notebook.
Speaker C: And I’m never going to get to writing all of these stories ever.
Speaker C: There’s too many.
Speaker C: But if anyone is just having trouble coming up with ideas for stories, you’ll.
Speaker B: Gift them one of your notebooks.
Speaker B: That would be an awesome writer gift.
Speaker B: Here’s a book of ideas.
Speaker C: Yeah, because I can’t turn them and it’s like it’s not just some of them are full on, like, plot outlines, like chapter by chapter what they should be.
Speaker C: Which is funny because I never managed to follow that.
Speaker C: I write it out, but I never managed to follow it.
Speaker B: You’re more a panther or more a planner.
Speaker C: So I have to have the outline.
Speaker C: I’ve discovered I have tried writing without an outline, and that freeze up almost immediately.
Speaker C: However, my characters rarely follow the outline.
Speaker C: So I’ve learned to put my outlines in word or something that I can easily delete and retype or move things around or whatever.
Speaker C: Yeah.
Speaker C: So I have to have the outline or I can’t write.
Speaker C: But I’m a discovery writer, so as I’m writing, everything changes.
Speaker B: Well, that is super unhelpful for you.
Speaker C: Yes.
Speaker C: I’m like, my process sucks.
Speaker B: Here’s the plan.
Speaker B: We’re going to follow the plan.
Speaker B: Okay, let’s ball it up and throw it out the window because that didn’t happen.
Speaker C: Exactly.
Speaker C: I wrote this beautiful outline for a book which is now Arabella’s Taming.
Speaker C: And that is the book that has gone the most off the rails ever within the first two pages.
Speaker C: As I started writing, everything started changing.
Speaker C: Like, new character introduced himself.
Speaker C: That was not in the original plan for the book.
Speaker C: All of a sudden, there was this secondary kind of love triangle thing going on, which was not the original plan for the book.
Speaker C: And it was to the point that, like, two weeks before the book released, I sent my newsletter the original outline for the book because I was like.
Speaker B: All right, here’s what it was supposed to be.
Speaker C: Here’s the original outline.
Speaker C: I don’t mind sending it to you because it is nothing like the actual books.
Speaker C: If everyone wants to know, like, a peek behind the scenes of how closely to my outlines do I follow?
Speaker C: This is the farmest I’ve ever gotten.
Speaker C: But I held on to the original outline so that you guys could see how off the rails this book went.
Speaker B: Yeah, like, wait, what happened to that book?
Speaker C: It never got written.
Speaker C: I could probably still write it and no one would know that it was the average outline for they would be such different fox.
Speaker B: I started and got about 300 words into my first book, and then my brain went, hey, so what if we did this instead?
Speaker B: And I’m like, no, we need to finish this one.
Speaker B: And it went, no, but here’s a whole storyline for a series instead.
Speaker B: So this weekend, I finally made the decision this last week, like, thinking over it, I’m like, all right, we’re going to push pause and we’re going to start working on the other one because, like, I can’t get my brain back to over there right now.
Speaker B: So maybe if we, like, give it a book from the series, it’ll let me finish.
Speaker C: A lot of the time.
Speaker C: What I’ll do is I’ll write down all my ideas.
Speaker C: Like, I’ve had that where full, serious thoughts in my head.
Speaker C: So I write down all the ideas and I’m like, all right, and I need to finish this, and then I can work on this.
Speaker C: And sometimes just writing out all the ideas is it like, enough?
Speaker C: It’s like, all right, once I’ve written it down.
Speaker C: And so the anticipation is still there, but I can go back to focusing on what I’m supposed to be focusing on.
Speaker B: Well, I don’t have anyone on me for finishing it.
Speaker B: I’m like, I want something out by the end of the year.
Speaker B: But we’re not even halfway through the year yet, so that’s right.
Speaker B: And I type like 90,000, 100,000 words a minute, so I can type very quickly and get I had like one weekend where I got like, on a Sunday, like 6500 words done in one day.
Speaker B: That was the last weekend that I got any decent amount of writing done on the book before it went sideways.
Speaker B: But I’m like, it’ll eventually get there, but now I’m going to have to reread through it and keep going.
Speaker C: Yeah, I definitely have a few books that I started and never finished.
Speaker C: It happens.
Speaker B: Do you ever get back to them or do they just sit there?
Speaker C: Not yet.
Speaker C: They’re just sitting there.
Speaker C: Like I said, sometimes all you need to do is get the idea out.
Speaker C: So I’ll write the first chapter or the first few chapters, and then I’ll just be like, all right, but I need to finish this other thing.
Speaker C: And so I get back to the thing that I’m supposed to be working on and then I just never get back to that.
Speaker C: Just working on it a little bit was enough.
Speaker C: My brain was like, okay, we’re good enough.
Speaker C: I don’t have that happen too often.
Speaker C: But I also don’t let myself do too many side projects too often because it is my income and family is relying on it.
Speaker B: Right.
Speaker C: It’s a whole different kind of pressure on the whole thing.
Speaker B: At this point, I’m just like, as long as the Narrating brings in enough to cover the podcast costs, which isn’t a lot at this point, I’m like, we’re good.
Speaker C: I don’t know.
Speaker B: All I need, I think I’m like, I don’t know.
Speaker B: There’s advertising, and I’m like $400 a month, I think is what I’m spending out and like, advertising across multiple podcasts and then hosting fees and all of that.
Speaker B: So I’m like, as long as we’re bringing in enough for that, we’re all good.
Speaker C: I love that you’re narrating.
Speaker C: You’re narrating in order to support your podcasting habit.
Speaker B: Hey, whatever works.
Speaker B: So far, since I started, I have yet to have a month where that did not happen.
Speaker B: So I’m keeping up with it.
Speaker B: I love it because I hear from being honest.
Speaker B: So I’m like my tik tok is very much in the I get narrator stuff and author stuff and reader stuff.
Speaker B: I’m getting all the book things right.
Speaker B: There will be narrators that will come up and will say they’re doing it part time.
Speaker B: And they’re like, how do you get books done in a reasonable amount of time?
Speaker B: Or whatever.
Speaker B: And it’s like, at the beginning, at the very beginning, you have no idea how much audio you’re going to be able to get done in a day.
Speaker B: Like, no clue.
Speaker B: But then once you kind of learn, okay, I can get this much red.
Speaker B: And so, like, me personally, I can get an hour and a half of audio done roughly in a day.
Speaker B: And that’s recorded fixing all the mistakes from the how do words come out of your mouth incorrectly when you’re staring at a page?
Speaker B: Yeah, getting it edited to where it’s retail, ready to get loaded up to audible.
Speaker B: Yeah, I see those kind of questions.
Speaker B: And then I’ve also seen authors.
Speaker B: I’ve been hired.
Speaker B: I had a publisher hire me.
Speaker B: And they’re like, oh, it’s a nine hour book.
Speaker B: That should take you about 9 hours, right?
Speaker B: And I’m like, no.
Speaker C: Not even a little bit.
Speaker B: I’m like, I mean, I could do it, but it’s not going to sound good.
Speaker C: Yeah, sure, if you don’t care about the quality.
Speaker B: Yeah, but I’m like, I can tell you it’s not going to pass quality control because awful.
Speaker C: Yeah, I always figured, like, a lot went into it, but after my husband started doing some of it and really getting to see how much goes into narrative in the audiobooks, I’m like, yeah, now you’re earning that per finished hour fee.
Speaker B: Well, I’ve seen a few authors recently asking narrators I’ve seen a few actually ask well, they’re asking readers, do you prefer first person or third person?
Speaker B: I’m like, as a narrator, here’s my opinion.
Speaker B: And they’re like, oh, never thought about it like that.
Speaker B: Because as a narrator, it’s very well for me, I don’t know how other ones are, but for me, it’s a little hard to get into a third person because you’re detached a little bit from the story where I can get very emotionally into a first person narrative.
Speaker B: So when the spouse dies or gets really injured, like, you get into the emotion of that or with third person, you’re like and then he got stabbed and it was so sad.
Speaker B: But still trying to bring I just finished narrating a third person.
Speaker B: It was my 1st, 3rd person one.
Speaker B: And I’m like, I feel very weird doing this detached thing.
Speaker B: But it kind of worked out because she changed perspectives a lot.
Speaker B: So you might be with the main character and then suddenly you’re with the villain.
Speaker B: And so it actually made it easier because I didn’t have to read entire chapters in other people’s perspectives.
Speaker C: Right?
Speaker C: Yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker B: Do you work with the same editor all the time or do you have different editors that you work with?
Speaker C: I currently work with the same one.
Speaker C: I’ve been through a few.
Speaker C: Right now I’m with Sandy at Personal Touch Editing.
Speaker C: And then I did also my most recent book that released on Thursday, a Season for Smugglers.
Speaker C: I did have an extra developmental edit for that from Jennifer Bennett, who’s another author.
Speaker B: I’ve kind of asked an editor about this, but what is the difference between the cause?
Speaker B: I think she gave me three different editing options.
Speaker B: What is the difference?
Speaker C: A developmental edit is kind of more allencompassing.
Speaker C: It’s looking for plot holes.
Speaker C: It’s looking for things that you’ve missed it’s looking for.
Speaker C: Are these scenes in the right sequence?
Speaker C: Is the pacing correct?
Speaker C: Does the character progression right make sense?
Speaker C: Is there anything like?
Speaker C: I’ve done developmental edits for some of my friends.
Speaker C: Things that I’ll look for are like, one of my friends, she had Fayes and shifters and she had her heroine fighting off this massive Faye Prince lord with all this magic and stuff.
Speaker C: And then the hero sees her do this and then the hero’s ex shows up and she’s just a regular shifter and they’re having to fight and he’s all scared that his ex is going to hurt her.
Speaker C: And I’m like, he just watched her fight off.
Speaker C: I was like, you have to switch the fight scenes.
Speaker C: I was like, this one came out.
Speaker C: The shifter.
Speaker C: The fight scene with the X needs to come first because otherwise there’s like.
Speaker B: He sounds like an idiot at that point, right?
Speaker C: I was like, you need both.
Speaker C: I understand why you have both.
Speaker C: You do need both.
Speaker C: They just need to be flip flopped.
Speaker B: I have an author that I narrate for that.
Speaker B: I guess I kind of do that for her.
Speaker B: So I’m like reading through her book ahead of time.
Speaker B: And she had said when she picked me as her narrator, she’s like, hey, if you find any errors in the manuscript, let me know and I’ll fix them.
Speaker B: I’m like, Okay, cool.
Speaker B: So I start reading through ahead of time as a narrator should do.
Speaker B: And I’m like, hey, I’m finding a few things, which is fine, but do you want me to throw this into a Google Drive?
Speaker B: And I can send you comments like it or not?
Speaker B: And she’s like, Sure.
Speaker B: So now I do all of her books that way.
Speaker B: But the first one that I did for her, it was like this group of friends that had known each other since high school, and the first chapter jumped into like, she’s been gone for a while and now she’s moved back.
Speaker B: But you didn’t get any of the them in high school part of things.
Speaker B: Can we add a prologue?
Speaker B: High school, so this all makes more sense?
Speaker C: Yes.
Speaker B: What I was doing was developmental whatever, right?
Speaker C: Just looking at the story as a whole, basically.
Speaker C: And then you get like the line edit, which is just like gold fixing structure, stuff like that, and then proofreading, which is more about grammar, misspelling, stuff like that.
Speaker B: Right.
Speaker C: And then there’s also content editor, which honestly, I’m not entirely sure you don’t use.
Speaker B: Clearly.
Speaker C: Yeah.
Speaker C: I’m not sure what the difference between them and developmental editors are, but I’m.
Speaker B: One of those, probably because one I’ve been reading my entire life, all kinds of different books.
Speaker B: I’m very, very good at editing things myself and like reading through and catching issues like that.
Speaker B: So I’m like, I’m going to attempt to do it myself and see how it goes.
Speaker C: Yeah, it is harder when it’s in your own work because I can do it for other people.
Speaker C: But my brain skips over what I know is supposed to be there, right?
Speaker C: So if there’s a word missing, my brain knows that word is supposed to be there.
Speaker C: So it sees it there, right?
Speaker C: Sometimes, even when I get mine edit back, they’re like, fix this.
Speaker C: And I’m like, Fix what?
Speaker C: I have to stare at it.
Speaker C: And I’m like, Oh, it is it’s a word there.
Speaker C: You don’t see it right away.
Speaker B: It’s crazy to me narrating read a sentence.
Speaker B: And I’m like, did that really not make sense?
Speaker B: Or did I just read it wrong?
Speaker B: And I’ll read it back?
Speaker B: And I’m like, no, that really didn’t make sense.
Speaker B: And I always get permission ahead of time for my authors.
Speaker B: Like, if I find something that’s obvious, this is what it was supposed to say.
Speaker B: Is it okay to fix it and move on?
Speaker B: Or if it’s something that it’s like and I don’t know that I’ve had this happen yet, but if it was something that was like some major, like the author would need to approve the fix, clearly, I’m going to ask before doing that.
Speaker C: Yeah.
Speaker C: And honestly, reading it out loud is like if you’re going to self edit, reading it out loud is a hack to do that or having the computer read it to you because that way you’re not relying on your eyes and auditory processing will help your brain find the things that need to be fixed more than yourself.
Speaker B: Right.
Speaker C: So those are actually two ways that a lot of people do when they do self edits.
Speaker C: That’s two ways that have proven very useful for people who are preferring to do it on their own.
Speaker B: Yeah, I’m just like it’s not even like, do I want to spend the money, but researching to find someone that actually knows what they’re doing.
Speaker B: Yeah, plus the series one that I’m working on is very much a I have to do a little bit of research to make sure it’s like mythology based and so I have to do enough research into mythology to make sure that I don’t get those.
Speaker B: Oh my God, why did she completely change everything about everything, right?
Speaker C: Yeah.
Speaker C: Disney’s, Hercules, I mean, it’s fun, but it’s not Greek mythology.
Speaker B: I don’t want mine to be that way.
Speaker B: I will be changing it slightly, but not any of the things that are going to get me in trouble.
Speaker B: It’s still a fantasy genre because that’s mythology is a subgenre of fantasy, but it’s like, yeah, no, I would like to not get booed off the stage at my first go.
Speaker C: I love it.
Speaker B: So do you have as your family read your books?
Speaker B: I imagine they know that you write.
Speaker C: We do know.
Speaker C: My mom has read well, she more does audio books, so I gave her a free code for one of my paranormal books, which has no kink and very steamy scenes, but no kink.
Speaker C: And she was like, that was nice, dear.
Speaker C: It’s not really my thing.
Speaker C: And I’m like, Ray with your book club, don’t give me that.
Speaker C: But I think it’s weird knowing that I wrote it, so I was fine with that.
Speaker C: But yeah, they know what I write.
Speaker C: My mom’s, cousin, and her daughters all read my books, which I think is hilarious because her daughters, when I saw them over the summer, they were like, oh, I want to read some of your stuff.
Speaker C: What do you write?
Speaker C: I was like, ask your mom.
Speaker B: So for my narrating, I do both steamy and not steamy.
Speaker C: Right.
Speaker B: My mom and my sister, I’m like, I’ll just warn you ahead of time.
Speaker B: So I did one that was a ya and there was like no, there was like a kissing scene in there.
Speaker B: It was very tame.
Speaker B: So I’m like, this one would be a good one for you to listen to.
Speaker B: This other one, no, but then my sister in law was like, what name do you narrate under?
Speaker B: So I tell her and she’s like, oh, I’m listening through one of the most raunchy ones I’ve done so far.
Speaker B: And I’m like, Really?
Speaker C: It’s better for them to know because then if they want to avoid your work, they can’t.
Speaker B: Well, I told her one, it’s classified erotica, so she would have seen that.
Speaker B: But I was like, read the blurbs.
Speaker B: Because I’m like, I don’t know what she’s going to want to listen to or not.
Speaker B: Just make sure to read the blurbs because I don’t want to hear it if you don’t read the blurb.
Speaker B: And then you’re like, why was there sex in here?
Speaker C: But I am personally of the mindset that it is best to tell the family because one of my friends, she just became a full time author recently.
Speaker C: And I asked her if she was going to tell her stepdaughters, who are both teenagers, like, getting ready to graduate high school soon.
Speaker C: And I was like, you’re going to tell me your pen?
Speaker C: And she was like, oh, no.
Speaker C: She’s like, I just think that would be so traumatizing for all of us.
Speaker C: I was like, what’s more traumatizing, you telling them now or in five years.
Speaker B: You see their books on your show?
Speaker B: I remember seeing a TikTok like that.
Speaker B: I don’t remember who it was, but she had her therapist or something.
Speaker B: She had her book on herself.
Speaker B: And lady’s like, oh, I love that book.
Speaker B: And she’s like, oh, thanks.
Speaker C: Yeah.
Speaker C: She’s like, oh, really?
Speaker B: It has my face on the back.
Speaker B: My day job, I occasionally have background checks run so I can’t use my birthday.
Speaker B: And then I have some family that are a little more on the conservative side.
Speaker B: And so I’m like, we just won’t tell them what name.
Speaker B: They know what I do.
Speaker B: My grandma a couple of weeks ago, and she’s like, oh, you’re writing a book?
Speaker B: That’s so cool.
Speaker B: And I’m like, it’s not the kind you would want to read, right?
Speaker C: I love it when I see the dedications that are like, dear mom and dad, please don’t read this.
Speaker C: It’s your own fault.
Speaker B: Right?
Speaker B: Like, the TikToks where their family finds their Tik tok or the students in the school find the TikTok and it’s just like, no, that wasn’t me.
Speaker C: Wasn’t me.
Speaker C: I know what you’re talking about now.
Speaker B: You can’t really do that.
Speaker B: Your hair is very distinct, so you would have a hard time.
Speaker C: The hair is new, though.
Speaker C: I mean, I was writing for nine years without the hair.
Speaker B: Okay.
Speaker B: It was a Tik tok exclusive then.
Speaker C: So the hair was actually my celebration for becoming a full time author.
Speaker C: My day job was at an accounting firm.
Speaker C: I’m not an account.
Speaker C: I didn’t do any accounting, but it was at an accounting firm.
Speaker C: And so I had to have a professional appearance.
Speaker C: And the wildest thing that they ever let me do with my hair was I was allowed to dye a little bit of the back underside.
Speaker B: Okay.
Speaker C: I always wore my hair down outside of my office and no one actually saw it, right?
Speaker B: So the peekaboo I think I’ve been.
Speaker C: And so my thing was like when I become a full time author because I wanted to grace colors.
Speaker C: So when I became a full time author, I’m going to dye my hair something like pink or purple.
Speaker C: Or whatever.
Speaker C: And so that’s what happened.
Speaker C: After I became a full time author, I dyed my hair purple originally, and then I kind of gone through a few things, and I’ve landed on the pink to purple blue ombre, which I think is where we’re staying because I really like it.
Speaker B: I thought about going to, like I wanted to do this really cool, like, rainbow thing, but my hair does not bleach.
Speaker B: My natural hair is blonde.
Speaker B: I was a red head for ten years before I finally was like, I’m tired of keeping up with the red.
Speaker B: So I switched to now I’m like, a really dark brunette.
Speaker B: But, yeah, I had briefly thought before I went to brunette about going to some kind of colored thing, and then I’m like the upkeep, and then my hair doesn’t bleach, so I’d have to let the red grow all the way off first.
Speaker C: Right.
Speaker B: In college, I had a brief period of, like I think I had, like, a pink streak and a purple streak at one point in college, but that’s, like, all that I’ve ever done.
Speaker B: My mom, on the other hand, she has a mohawk that is always colored different colors.
Speaker B: I love that she’s very easy to find.
Speaker B: Find the person with whatever color she has at the time.
Speaker C: Yes.
Speaker C: I have also become very easy to find.
Speaker C: I realize that’s actually a benefit.
Speaker B: Depends on who’s trying to find you, I guess.
Speaker C: Yeah, that’s true.
Speaker C: If we go somewhere, there’s a crowd.
Speaker C: I don’t have to worry about whether or not my friends and husband can locate me.
Speaker B: Have you seen the course?
Speaker B: Nowadays, there’s a lot more people.
Speaker B: Yeah, because my mom’s been multi color.
Speaker B: It’s funny because my dad, when I was growing up, was like, you can’t color your hair at all.
Speaker B: And then when I was in junior senior year, it was okay as long as it’s natural colors.
Speaker C: Right.
Speaker B: Then it was like, I don’t know at what point he let my mom do or okayed, my mom, her thing.
Speaker B: She wanted to have blue hair.
Speaker B: Like, that was her big I want blue hair.
Speaker B: And eventually that got okayed.
Speaker B: And then he loved it.
Speaker B: After that, it was like a progression.
Speaker C: So many more people with the crazy colors in the past couple of years.
Speaker B: Yeah, it’s been crazy because you knew people like color there or whatever, but yeah.
Speaker B: What do they call the fashion colors?
Speaker B: There’s so many brands that make them now where before it was like, go to Sally and your manic panic is all you could get.
Speaker C: Yeah, that’s the only one.
Speaker C: Yeah.
Speaker C: I actually do a lot of my own touch ups.
Speaker C: I use Pravana, and so when it starts to fade and actually I like the color, it fades too, but it does, like, hit a point.
Speaker C: So then I’ll put in my own color, and I don’t actually go to the salon until I need the roots done.
Speaker C: I’ll touch up my own color, because you can now there’s so many options.
Speaker B: Well, playing with bleach is a lot different because you do that wrong.
Speaker B: Your hair is drying off.
Speaker C: Yeah, that’s a no, thank you.
Speaker B: Yeah, my hair is like let’s see, last time we tried to bleach it, it was like a multi week, multi application process, and some of it still didn’t lift.
Speaker B: So it was like, we’re just not trying that again.
Speaker C: Wow.
Speaker B: Yeah, when I say it doesn’t like it, it really doesn’t do anything.
Speaker B: Fascinating.
Speaker A: Different hair.
Speaker C: Yeah, that is fascinating.
Speaker C: Mine lists really easily and really quickly because I have pretty dark hair.
Speaker C: But when the first time we did it, they were like because we did one thing and it was like, okay, actually, that went a lot faster and lighter than we thought it was.
Speaker C: So now we’re just going to do the bleach, like the bleach rinse or whatever it’s called with the shampoo and stuff.
Speaker C: And that was it.
Speaker C: We thought it was going to take like three applications and it was just like the first application and then the rinse, and it was like, all right, good enough.
Speaker C: Let’s go ahead and make it purple.
Speaker B: Now, we’ve gotten way off topic here.
Speaker B: So you were finishing up a book today.
Speaker B: So what is next?
Speaker C: So, yes, I am finishing up Law and Disorder, which is the third book in my Masters of Marquee series, which is one of my main series.
Speaker C: My Historical Thinking, which is Season for Smugglers, just released in on Thursday.
Speaker C: And I normally try to not have a release and a writing deadline on the same week, but Law and Order was supposed to be done last week and I didn’t make that deadline.
Speaker C: So now it just is what it is.
Speaker C: And that book will be out in June.
Speaker C: Whenever people ask what they should read for me, I’m like, well, my historical bit more like dotcom when it comes to the spankings and stuff, because I can because it’s historical.
Speaker C: So if you want explicit consent, I call them kinky books or spanking books.
Speaker C: Whereas my contemporaries are BDSM because they have explicit consent and communication rules.
Speaker B: There’s usually rules.
Speaker C: Yeah, there’s rules governing.
Speaker B: You have two different you have your little bit cleaner and then you’re definitely not cleaner.
Speaker C: Love that.
Speaker C: But yeah, this one was fun, though.
Speaker C: It’s interesting.
Speaker C: Season for Smugglers was just released.
Speaker C: I have to do a bunch of research into steam powered sex machines.
Speaker C: Had to.
Speaker C: I did.
Speaker C: I did a lot of research into steam powered sex machines because I wanted one in the book.
Speaker C: And then for Law and Disorder, I don’t know, I must still kind of have that kind of stuff on the brain because I ended up deciding to have some fun with Electrical Play, which is kind of like the modern version of steam powered sex machines.
Speaker B: So basically, you’re on someone’s watch list for what the heck is this person doing with her search history?
Speaker C: I mean, at least I got murdering anyone I’m like with the romantic suspense authors.
Speaker C: I’m like, you all are definitely on someone’s watch list because you’re right between heroines are, like, kidnapped too.
Speaker B: How to kidnap someone properly, right?
Speaker C: Like, how to kidnap people.
Speaker C: Chloroform bombs wasted all the body.
Speaker C: At least I mostly stay away from here.
Speaker B: So the book that I paused, it’s a fantasy superhero, but it’s like they become superheroes because of a vaccine gone wrong.
Speaker B: And so I had a nurse on Twitter was like, oh, if you need a beta reader for it, whatever.
Speaker B: I’m like, I said this in the future, so I could essentially do what I wanted with the medical tech, but thanks.
Speaker B: Yeah, I’m like, this is definitely stuff that would not happen nowadays, but in 20 years, who knows?
Speaker C: Yeah, I’ve done a little bit.
Speaker C: I have a few Sci-Fi books, and I used to read a lot of Sci-Fi, and it’s one of those things where it’s like, you can do what you want, but then at the same time, it’s like, I still end up doing research because I’m like, I don’t want it to be.
Speaker C: I still feel like I need to understand how certain things work so that I can make it mostly believable.
Speaker B: Right.
Speaker C: I also just like, research.
Speaker C: Like, it’s also a thing that I enjoy doing.
Speaker B: You’re talking to the person that just bought literally ten different mythology books for reading.
Speaker C: Do you have the Aralus book of Greek myths?
Speaker B: So because of what I’m doing, I had to go with ones that so it’ll be like, different mythologies kind of combined together.
Speaker B: And so I actually found one author that I think he’s like a professor of mythology or something, because he had a book with a bunch of Greek and Roman and Norse mythology, and then he had one, like the Native American different ones combined together, and then African.
Speaker B: And he had groups of the different continents, basically, of mythology in a book together.
Speaker B: And so I did those, and then I did a couple of encyclopedia, pretty much one that sounds cool, but I’m like, I need a broad overview so that’s the encyclopedia I need the short paragraph version of about the different gods and goddesses and stuff.
Speaker B: But then I also need to go more in depth to make sure is Zeus a psychopath, really, in the myths or not?
Speaker C: Right.
Speaker C: Yes, he is.
Speaker C: Or at the very least is sex addict.
Speaker B: That will be eventually.
Speaker B: I’ll get started.
Speaker B: But yeah, I’m very much not, like in depth research, but for the vaccine.
Speaker B: When I was like, at one point, I was talking about something happens to the main character and she needs to go to a mental health professional of some sort.
Speaker B: But I kept calling it like I kept changing what I called it, like, psychiatrist and psychologist and therapist, and I’m like, what are the difference between these?
Speaker B: Because I need to pick which one because it keeps changing it.
Speaker B: Yeah, but then I kept calling it, you need to see a doctor.
Speaker B: And I’m like, okay, which one of those would be considered a doctor?
Speaker B: You learn.
Speaker B: No, not all of them.
Speaker B: Not all of them.
Speaker B: I don’t remember now.
Speaker B: I think it was a psychologist is the one that’s actually a medical doctor.
Speaker B: The other one, it’s more like not a certificate.
Speaker B: Like, you still have to go to school and get degree, but you’re not called doctor, whatever at that point.
Speaker C: Yes, I do know psychiatrists are who you go to for medication, because I always saw a psychologist, and then if I was, they were because I have generalized anxiety and depression.
Speaker C: So at one point, they were talking about we were talking about putting me on medication.
Speaker C: And in order to do that, I was going to have to go see a psychiatrist because they’re the only ones that can give you the so that.
Speaker B: Must be the doctor one then.
Speaker B: Yeah, most of the time.
Speaker B: Not doctors aren’t going to be giving medications legally.
Speaker C: I was seeing the psychologist for behavioral therapy, and then the psychiatrist would be for the actual, like, messing around with your brain chemistry.
Speaker B: Fun.
Speaker B: Well, I want to say we’re about done for today, but I wanted to say thank you so much for coming on and I look forward to I swear I get your videos.
Speaker B: Every time I hop on TikTok, I get at least one of your videos.
Speaker C: Well, I hope they’re entertaining.
Speaker B: Well, it is helping me, though, because some of the stuff you give about should you go wide or not go wide or whatever, those are helpful for someone who has to start thinking about those things.
Speaker C: Right.
Speaker B: So it is helpful to me.
Speaker B: So I appreciate them and I enjoy typically watch unless it’s one they keep repeat videoing me.
Speaker B: So, like, if it’s one I’ve seen before, I’ll skip it, but typically I watch them through.
Speaker C: I appreciate it.
Speaker B: Thank you.
Speaker C: And thank you for having me on here.
Speaker C: This was fun.
Speaker B: No problem.
Speaker B: You have a good rest of your Saturday.
Speaker C: Thank you.
Speaker C: You too.
Speaker A: Golden Angel’s favorite fairy tale when she was a kid was Sleeping Beauty.
Speaker A: Sleeping Beauty or Little Briar Rose, also titled in English as the Sleeping Beauty in the woods, is a classic fairy tale about a princess who is cursed to sleep for 100 years by an evil fairy to be awakened by a handsome prince.
Speaker A: At the end of them, the good fairy, realizing that the princess would be frightened if alone when she awakens, uses her wand to put every living person and animal in the palace asleep to awaken when the princess does.
Speaker A: The earliest known version of the story is found in the narrative Purse Forest.
Speaker A: Composed between 1330 and 1344, the tale was first published by Jean Battista Basil in his collection of tales titled The Pentagon, published posthumorously in 1634.
Speaker A: Basil’s version was later adapted and published by Charles Perrault in historius Ocantes Du Tempest Passes in 1697.
Speaker A: The version that was later collected and printed by the Brothers Grimm was an orally transmitted version of the literary tale published by Perrault.
Speaker A: The Arne Thompson Classification System for Folk Tales classifies Sleeping Beauty as being a 410 tail type, meaning it includes a princess who is forced into an enchanted sleep and is later awakened reversing the magic placed upon her.
Speaker A: The story has been adapted many times throughout history and has continued to be retold by modern storytellers throughout various media.
Speaker A: Today we’ll be reading The Sleeping Beauty in the adaptation of Sleeping Beauty by Charles Perrault.
Speaker A: Don’t forget we are also continuing the original story of Beauty and the Beast on our patreon.
Speaker A: The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood there were formerly a king and a Queen who were so sorry that they had no children, so sorry that it cannot be expressed.
Speaker A: They went to all the waters in the world.
Speaker A: Vows, pilgrimages always were tried, and all to no purpose.
Speaker A: At last, however, the Queen proved with child and was brought to bed of a daughter.
Speaker A: There was a very fine Christening, and the princess had for her Godmothers all the fairies they could find in the whole kingdom.
Speaker A: They found seven, that every one of them might give her a gift, as was the custom of fairies in those days, and that by this means the princess might have all the perfections imaginable.
Speaker A: After the ceremonies of the Christening were over, all the company returned to the King’s palace, where was prepared a great feast for the fairies.
Speaker A: There was placed before every one of them a magnificent cover with a case of massive gold, wherein with a spoon, knife and fork, all of pure gold set with diamonds and rubies.
Speaker A: But as they were all sitting down at table, they saw come into the hall a very old fairy whom they had not invited because it was above 50 years since she had been out of a certain tower and she was believed to be either dead or enchanted.
Speaker A: The king ordered her a cover, but could not furnish her with a case of gold as the others, because they had seven only made for the seven fairies.
Speaker A: The old fairy, fancied she was slighted and muttered some threat between her teeth.
Speaker A: One of the young fairies who sat by her overheard how she grumbled and, judging that she might give the little princess some unlucky gift, went as soon as they rose from the table and hid herself behind the hangings, that she might speak last and repair as much as possible she could the evil which the old fairy might intend.
Speaker A: In the meanwhile, all the fairies began to give their gifts to the Princess.
Speaker A: The youngest gave her for gift that she should be the most beautiful person in the world.
Speaker A: The next that she should have the wit of an angel the third, that she should have a wonderful grace in everything she did the fourth, that she should dance perfectly well the fifth, that she should sing like a nightingale and the 6th, that she should play upon all kinds of music to the utmost perfection.
Speaker A: The old fairy’s turn.
Speaker A: Coming next, with a head shaking more with spite than age, she said that the princess should have her hand pierced with a spindle and die of the wound.
Speaker A: This terrible gift made the whole company tremble, and everybody fell a crying.
Speaker A: At this very instant, the young fairy came out from behind the hangings and spake these words aloud be reassured, O king and queen, your daughter shall not die of this disaster.
Speaker A: It is true I have no power to undo entirely what my elder has done.
Speaker A: The princess shall indeed pierce her hand with the spindle, but instead of dying, she shall only fall into a profound sleep which shall last 100 years at the expiration of which a king’s son shall come and awake her.
Speaker A: The king, to avoid the misfortune foretold by the old fairy, caused immediately proclamations to be made, whereby everybody was forbidden, on pain of death, to spin with a disStaff and spindle, or to have so much as any spindle in their houses.
Speaker A: About 15 or 16 years after the king and queen being gone to one of their houses of pleasure, the young princess happened one day to divert herself running up and down the palace.
Speaker A: When, going up from one apartment to another, she came into a little room on the top of the tower, where a good old woman alone was spinning with her spindle.
Speaker A: This good woman had never heard of the king’s proclamation against spindles.
Speaker A: What are you doing there?
Speaker A: Goodie, said the princess.
Speaker A: I am spinning, my pretty child, said the old woman, who did not know who she was.
Speaker A: Ah, said the princess, this is very pretty.
Speaker A: How do you do it?
Speaker A: Give it to me, that I may see if I can do so.
Speaker A: She had no sooner taken the spindle into her hand than whether, being very hasty at it, somewhat unhandy, or that decree of the fairy had so ordained it, it ran into her hand, and she fell down in a swoon.
Speaker A: The good old woman, not knowing very well what to do in this affair, cried out for help.
Speaker A: People came in from every quarter in great numbers.
Speaker A: They threw water upon the princess’s face, unlaced her, struck her on the palms of her hands, and rubbed her temples with hungry water.
Speaker A: But nothing would bring her to herself.
Speaker A: And now the king, who came up with the noise, bethought himself of the prediction of the fairies, and judging very well that this must necessarily come to pass, since the fairies had said it, caused the princess to be carried into the finest apartment in his palace and to be laid upon a bed all embroidered with gold and silver.
Speaker A: One would have taken her for an angel, she was so very beautiful, for her swooning away had not diminished one bit of her complexion.
Speaker A: Her cheeks were carnation and her lips like coral.
Speaker A: Indeed, her eyes were shut, but she was heard to breathe softly, which satisfied those about her that she was not dead.
Speaker A: The king commanded that they should not disturb her, but let her sleep quietly till her hour of awakening was come.
Speaker A: The good fairy, who had saved her life by condemning her to sleep 100 years, was in the kingdom of Metakin, 120 leagues off, when this accident befell the princess.
Speaker A: But she was instantly informed of it by a little dwarf who had boots of seven leagues that is, boots with which he could tread over seven leagues of ground at one stride.
Speaker A: The ferry came away immediately, and she arrived about an hour after in a fiery chariot drawn by dragons.
Speaker A: The king handed her out of the chariot, and she approved everything he had done.
Speaker A: But, as she had a very great foresight, she thought when the princess should awake, she might not know what to do with herself, being all alone in this old palace.
Speaker A: And this was what she did.
Speaker A: She touched with her wand everything in the palace except the king and queen, governesses, maids of honor, ladies of the bed, chamber, gentlemen, officers, stewards, cooks, undercooks, scolians, guards with their beauty theaters, pages, footmen.
Speaker A: She likewise touched all the horses which were in the stables, as well as their grooms, the great dogs in the outward court, and pretty little mopsy, too, the princess’s little Spaniel b****, which lay by her on the bed immediately upon her touching them, they all fell asleep, that they might not awaken before their mistress, and that they might be ready to wait upon her when she wanted them.
Speaker A: The fairy spits at the fire as full as they could hold of partridges, and Pheasants did fall asleep, and the fire likewise.
Speaker A: All this was done in a moment.
Speaker A: Fairies are not long in doing their business.
Speaker A: And now the king and the queen, having kissed their dear child without waking her, went out of the palace and put forth a proclamation that nobody should dare to come near it.
Speaker A: This, however, was not necessary, for in a quarter of an hour’s time there grew up all round about the park such a vast number of trees, great and small bushes and brambles climbing one within another, that neither man nor beast could pass through, so that nothing could be seen but the very top of the towers of the palace.
Speaker A: And that, too, not unless it was a good way off.
Speaker A: Nobody doubted.
Speaker A: But the fairy gave herein a sample of her art, that the princess, while she continued sleeping, might have nothing to fear from any curious people.
Speaker A: When 100 years were gone and passed, the son of the king then reigning and who was of another family from that of the sleeping princess being gone a hunting on that side of the country asked what were those towers which he saw in the middle of a great thick wood?
Speaker A: Everyone answered according as they had heard.
Speaker A: Some said that it was a ruinous old castle haunted by spirits others that all the sorcerers and witches of the country kept there their Sabbath or night’s meeting.
Speaker A: The common opinion was that an ogre lived there and that he carried thither all the little children he could catch that he might eat them up at his leisure without anybody being able to follow him as having himself only the power to pass through the wood.
Speaker A: Ogre is a giant with long teeth and claws, with a raw head and bloody bones, who runs away with naughty little boys and girls and eats them up.
Speaker A: The prince was out of stand, not knowing what to believe, when a very aged countryman spoke to him thus.
Speaker A: May I please your Royal Highness?
Speaker A: It is now above 50 years since I heard my father, who had heard my grandfather say there then was in this castle a princess, the most beautiful was ever seen that she must sleep there 100 years and should be awakened by a king’s son for whom she was reserved.
Speaker A: The young prince was all on fire at these words, believing without a moment’s doubt that he could put an end to this rare adventure and pushed on by love and honor, resolved that moment to look into it.
Speaker A: Scarce had he advanced towards the wood, when all the great trees, the bushes and brambles gave way of themselves to let him pass through.
Speaker A: He walked up to the castle which he saw at the end of a large avenue which he went into.
Speaker A: And what a little surprised him was that he saw none of his people could follow him because the trees closed again as soon as he had passed through them.
Speaker A: However, he did not cease from continuing his way.
Speaker A: A young and amorous prince is always valiant.
Speaker A: He came into a spacious outward court, where everything he saw might have frozen up the most fearless person with horror.
Speaker A: There reigned overall a most frightful silence.
Speaker A: The image of death everywhere showed itself and there was nothing to be seen but stretched out bodies of men and animals, all seeming to be dead.
Speaker A: He, however, very well knew by the ruby faces and pimpled noses of the beef eaters that they were only asleep and their goblets, wherein still remains some drops of wine, showed plainly that they fell asleep in their cups.
Speaker A: He then crossed a court paved with marvel, went up the stairs and came into the guard chamber, where the guards were standing in their ranks with their muskets upon their shoulders and snoring as loud as they could.
Speaker A: After that he went through several rooms full of gentlemen and ladies all asleep, some standing, other sitting.
Speaker A: At last he came into a chamber all gilded with gold where he saw upon a bed the curtains of which were all open, the finest sight was ever beheld.
Speaker A: A princess who appeared to be about 15 or 16 years of age and who is bright and in a manner resplendent beauty, had somewhat in it divine.
Speaker A: He approached with trembling and admiration and fell down before her upon his knees.
Speaker A: And now, as the enchantment was at an end, the princess awakened and looking on him with eyes more tender than the first view might seem to admit of.
Speaker A: Is it you, my prince?
Speaker A: She said to him.
Speaker A: You have carried along the prince charmed with these words, and much more with the manner in which they were spoken knew not how to show his joy and gratitude.
Speaker A: He assured her that he loved her better than he did himself.
Speaker A: His discourse was not well connected, but it pleased her all the more.
Speaker A: Little eloquence a great deal of love.
Speaker A: He was more at a loss than she, and we need not wonder at it.
Speaker A: She had time to think on what to say to him, for it is very probable, though history mentions nothing of it but the good fairy, during so long asleep, had entertained her with pleasant dreams.
Speaker A: In short, when they talked for hours together they said not half what they had to say.
Speaker A: In the meanwhile, all the palace awakened.
Speaker A: Everyone thought upon their particular business and as all of them were not in love, they were ready to die for hunger.
Speaker A: The chief lady of honor, being as sharpset as other folks, grew very impatient and told the princess aloud that supper was served up.
Speaker A: The prince helped the princess to rise.
Speaker A: She was entirely dressed and very magnificently but His Royal Highness took care not to tell her that she was dressed like his great grandmother and had a point band peeping over a high collar.
Speaker A: She looked not a bit the less beautiful and charming for all that.
Speaker A: They went into the great hall of Looking Glasses, where they stopped and they were served by the princess’s officers.
Speaker A: The violins and hot boys played old tunes, but very excellent though it was now above 100 years since they had been played and after supper, without losing any time, the Lord Almanir married them in the chapel of the castle and the chief lady of Honor drew the curtains.
Speaker A: They had but very little sleep.
Speaker A: The princess had no occasion, and the prince left her next morning to return into the city where his father must needs have been anxious on his account.
Speaker A: The prince told him that he lost his weight in the forest as he was hunting and that he had lain at the cottage of a collier who gave him cheese and brown bread.
Speaker A: The king, his father, who was of an easy disposition, believed him but his mother could not be persuaded.
Speaker A: This was true, and seeing that he went almost every day a hunting, and that he always had some excuse ready when he laid out three or four nights together, she no longer doubted he had some little or more, for he lived with the princess above two whole years, and had by her two children, the eldest of which, who was a daughter, was named Aurora, and the youngest, who was a son they called Day, because he was even handsomer and more beautiful than his sister.
Speaker A: The queen said more than once to her son, in order to bring him to speak freely to her, that a young man must intake his pleasure.
Speaker A: But he never dared to trust her with his secret.
Speaker A: He feared her, though he loved her, for she was of the race of the ogres, and the king would never have married her had it not been for her vast riches.
Speaker A: It was even whispered about the court that she had ocarous inclinations, and that whenever she saw little children passing by, she had all the difficulty in the world to refrain from falling upon them.
Speaker A: And so the prince would never tell her one word.
Speaker A: But when the king was dead, which happened about two years afterwards and he saw himself lord and master, he openly declared his marriage, and he went in great ceremony to fetch his queen from the castle.
Speaker A: They made a magnificent entry into the capital city, she riding between her two children.
Speaker A: Sometime after the king went to make war with the Emperor Cantalbut, his neighbor, he left the government of the kingdom to the queen his mother, and earnestly recommended to her care his wife and children.
Speaker A: He was like to be at war all summer, and as soon as he departed, the queen mother sent her daughter in law and her children to a country house among the woods, that she might, with the more ease, gratify her horrible longing.
Speaker A: Some few days afterwards she went thither herself and said to her clerk of the kitchen I have a mind to eat little Aurora for my dinner tomorrow.
Speaker A: Ah, madam.
Speaker A: Cried the clerk of the kitchen, I will have it so, replied the queen.
Speaker A: And as she spoke in the tone of an ogress who had a strong desire to eat fresh meat and will eat her with a sauce.
Speaker A: Robert, this is a French sauce made with onions, shredded and boiled, tender and butter, which is added vinegar, mustard, salt, pepper and a little wine.
Speaker A: The poor man, knowing very well that he must not play tricks with ogresses, took his great knife and went up into little Aurora’s chamber.
Speaker A: She was then four years old and came up to him jumping and laughing, to take him about the neck and ask him for some sugar candy.
Speaker A: Upon which he began to weep, the great knife fell out of his hand, and he went into the backyard and killed a little lamb and dressed it with such good sauce, that his mistress assured him she had never eaten anything so good in her life.
Speaker A: He had at the same time taken up little Aurora and carried her to his wife to conceal her in the lodging he had at the end of the courtyard.
Speaker A: About eight days afterwards, the wicked queen said to the clerk of the kitchen, I will SUP upon Little Day.
Speaker A: He answered not a word, being resolved to cheat her as he had done before.
Speaker A: He went to find out little Day, and saw him with a little foil in his hand, with which he was fencing with a great monkey.
Speaker A: The child being then only three years of age, he took him up in his arms and carried him to his wife, that she might conceal him in her chamber along with his sister, and in the room of little Day cooked up a young kid, very tender, which the ogres found to be wonderfully good.
Speaker A: This was hitherto almighty well.
Speaker A: But one evening this wicked Queen said to her clerk of the kitchen, I will eat the Queen with the same sauce I had with her children.
Speaker A: It was now that the poor clerk of the kitchen despaired of being able to deceive her.
Speaker A: The young Queen was turned of 20, not reckoning the hundred years she had been asleep.
Speaker A: Her skin was somewhat tough, though very fair and white, and how to find in the yard a beast, so firm was what puzzled him.
Speaker A: He took then a resolution that he might save his own life to cut the Queen’s throat, and going up into her chamber with intent to do it at once, he put himself into as great a fury as he could possibly, and came into the young Queen’s room with his dagger in his hand.
Speaker A: He would not, however, surprise her, but told her with a great deal of respect the orders he had received from the Queen mother.
Speaker A: Do it, do it, said she, stretching out her neck.
Speaker A: Execute your orders, and then I shall go and see my children, my poor children, whom I so much and so tenderly loved.
Speaker A: For she thought them dead ever since they had been taken away without her knowledge.
Speaker A: No, no, madam.
Speaker A: Cried the poor clerk of the kitchen, all in tears.
Speaker A: You shall not die, and yet you shall see your children again.
Speaker A: But it must be in my lodgings where I have concealed them, and I shall deceive the Queen once more by giving her in your stead, a young hind.
Speaker A: Upon this he forthwith conducted her to his chamber, where, leaving her to embrace her children and cry along with them, he went and dressed a hind which the Queen had for her supper, and devoured it with the same appetite as if it had been the young queen.
Speaker A: Exceedingly was she delighted with her cruelty and she had invented a story to tell the King at his return, how ravenous wolves had eaten up the Queen, his wife and her two children.
Speaker A: One evening, as she was, according to her custom, rambling around about the courts and yards of the palace to see if she could smell any fresh meat.
Speaker A: She heard in a ground room little Day, crying for his mama was going to with him because he had been naughty.
Speaker A: And she heard at the same time little Aurora begging pardon for her brother.
Speaker A: The ogres presently knew the voice of the Queen and her children, and being quite mad that she had been thus deceived, she commanded next morning by break of day, with the most horrible voice which made everybody tremble, that they should bring into the middle of the great court a large tub which caused to be filled with toads, vipers, snakes and all sorts of serpents, in order to have thrown into it the Queen and her children.
Speaker A: The clerk of the kitchen, his wife and maid, all whom she had given orders should be brought thither with their hands tied behind them.
Speaker A: They were brought out accordingly, and the executioners were just going to throw them into the tub when the king, who was not so soon expected, entered the court on horseback.
Speaker A: For he came post and asked with the utmost astonishment what was the meaning of that horrible spectacle?
Speaker A: No one dared to tell him.
Speaker A: When the ogres, all enraged to see what had happened, threw herself head foremost into the tub and was instantly devoured by the ugly creatures she had ordered to be thrown into for the others.
Speaker A: The king could not but be very sorry, for she was his mother.
Speaker A: But he soon comforted himself with his beautiful wife and his pretty children.
Speaker A: To get as prize a husband, rich and gay of humor, sweet with many years to stay is natural enough, tis true, to wait for him 100 years.
Speaker A: And all that while asleep appears a thing entirely new.
Speaker A: Now, at this time of day, not one of all the sex we see doth sleep with such profound tranquillity.
Speaker A: But yet this fable seems to let us know that very often Hyman’s bliss is sweet although some tedious obstacles they meet are not less happy for approaching slow.
Speaker A: Tis nature’s way that ladies fair should yearn conjugal joys to share and so I’ve got the heart to preach a moral that’s beyond their reach.
Speaker A: Thank you for joining Freya’s Fairy Tales.
Speaker A: Be sure to come back next week to hear Ariana’s journey to holding her own fairy tale in her hands and to hear one of her favorite fairy tales.
