Books of 2013 is a feature for highlighting books coming out this year that sound interesting. Today’s featured book is the upcoming anthology Once Upon a Time: New Fairy Tales edited by Paula Guran.

I actually hadn’t heard anything about this book until I got one of those emails from Amazon trying to get me to buy something. Normally I disregard those emails, but this time I looked at it because the subject “New from Tanith Lee” caught my eye. I hadn’t heard anything about a new book by her so I was curious and opened the email to see what it was about. While the book isn’t actually written by Tanith Lee, it contains one of her short stories, and I was immediately intrigued by it. I LOVE retold fairy tales, plus this book contains short stories by both authors whose work I’ve been wanting to read and some authors who have written books I really enjoyed (such as Cinda Williams Chima, Ekaterina Sedia, and Jane Yolen).

Once Upon a Time: New Fairy Tales will be available in October.

About Once Upon a Time: New Fairy Tales:

Eighteen extraordinary authors devise all-new fairy tales: imaginative reinterpretations of the familiar, evocative new myths, speculations beyond the traditional realm of “once upon a time.” Often dark, occasionally humorous, always enthralling, these stories find a certain Puss in a near-future New York, an empress bargaining with a dragon, a princess turned into a raven, a king’s dancing daughters with powerful secrets, great heroism, terrible villainy, sparks of mischief, and a great deal more. Brilliant dreams and dazzling nightmares with meaning for today and tomorrow…