Dear Marissa Meyer,

I had the pleasure of interviewing you & reading your books. Two of my favorite books are The Happy Writer & your Rumpelstiltskin retelling Gilded. This fall I cannot wait to read your retelling of Bluebeard titled The House Saphir. Gilded made the same story of Rumpelstiltskin into a unique scary fantasy that horror director, Robert Eggers, wished he could dream up. I hope he gets the rights to that book and its sequel.

 I hope you continue to write more fairytale retellings whether they’ve been retold a thousand times, or if they’re lesser-known ones. One fairytale I would love for you to write a retelling to is The Twelve Dancing Princesses, knowing you, you’d make the world the sisters escape to, be beautiful and dangerous and perhaps they need to save the world they dance in from an evil force.

Another fairytale retelling that would be great is The Goose Girl. If Shannon Hale could make a fairytale into an entire 4 book series, I’m sure you could make a very creative retelling of The Goose Girl. Maybe an interesting twist on this fairytale is, the evil maid servant falls in love with the prince’s evil brother and they plot to rid the kingdom of the good prince that should marry the real princess.

 Snow White And Rose Red is a beautiful tale of sisterhood as well as both sisters breaking the curse an evil dwarf placed on their talking bear friend who is indeed a prince put under the spell. The prince marries Snow White and the brother of the prince marries Rose Red. Perhaps in this retelling, the dwarf already had a grudge with the prince’s family. Or perhaps the prince accidently killed a dwarf and in revenge the evil dwarf curses the prince.

 Sincerely a woman writing her own fairytale

Bianca Vandenbos