{"id":2790,"date":"2017-12-04T10:04:01","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T15:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beydeckard.com\/blog\/?p=2790"},"modified":"2017-12-04T10:04:01","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T15:04:01","slug":"beauty-and-his-beast-out-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/beauty-and-his-beast-out-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Beauty and His Beast – Out Now!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Beauty and His Beast - Out Now<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Once upon a time, long long ago, someone gave me an illustrated copy of\u00a0Beauty and the Beast<\/em>\u00a0as a present. The story was a retelling of a retelling: this was Deborah Apy\u2019s version retelling the one written by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont in 1756, which was a retelling of the original story,\u00a0La Belle et la B\u00eate<\/em>\u00a0written by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve in 1740. I loved the story and the illustrations by Michael Hague really intrigued me\u2014they were creepy and dark and fantastic. I loved his images of the horned, shaggy-albeit-well-dressed, angst-ridden Beast. Interestingly, we never get to see the miraculous transformation of the prince\u2026 The final painting in the book is of Beauty finding the Beast dying of heartbreak in his rose garden.
\nYears later, I would see the Disney version and, though the story isn\u2019t all that similar to the original, I liked the comedic aspects of it. However, I was disappointed with the Beast\u2019s transformation\u2014call me strange, but I actually preferred him as he was.<\/p>\n

Beauty and His Beast<\/em> is a story that\u2019s been percolating in my brain for a few years now. It\u2019s a mashup of the original stories, the Disney version, and bit of another book that has nothing to do with Beauty and the Beast, but was my absolute favourite when I was really young: Disney\u2019s\u00a0The Black Hole: A Spaceship Adventure for Robots<\/em>.
\nThis story is not dark, not very long, and not particularly serious\u2014just my silly take on a much loved, oft-retold fairy tale\u2026 in space.
\nI hope you enjoy it.<\/p>\n

P.S. - Ghelyxian is pronounced Hell-EE-zee-an and Ghelyx, Hell-ix<\/p>\n

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Beauty and His Beast<\/strong>
\nNovella (~38,000 words)
\nGenre(s): Fairy tale, science fiction, xenophilia, magic penis, love story, LGBTQ+<\/em><\/p>\n

They call him Marrex the Monster.<\/p>\n

Deformed and wretched, Captain Marrex roams the black of space with only a pair of eccentric AIs for company. The curse in his DNA means a long, bitterly lonely life for the Ghelyxian, and it\u2019s a fate Marrex knows he can\u2019t change.<\/p>\n

After a long sleep in stasis, Juniper Bo wakes to discover he\u2019s an unwelcome guest aboard Captain Marrex\u2019s ship. Though he tries to stay away from the surly Ghelyxian, he just doesn\u2019t get why the curse is such a big deal\u2014then again, Juniper knows his tastes are rather\u2026 unusual for a Human.<\/p>\n

When friendship blooms between Marrex and Juniper, they realize they face a future that neither could have predicted in their wildest dreams.<\/p>\n

Buy your copy today!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Beauty and His Beast – Out Now Once upon a time, long long ago, someone gave me an illustrated copy of\u00a0Beauty and the Beast\u00a0as a present. The story was a retelling of a retelling: this was Deborah Apy\u2019s version retelling the one written by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont in 1756, which was a retelling of the original story,\u00a0La Belle et la B\u00eate\u00a0written by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve in 1740. I loved the story and the illustrations by Michael Hague really intrigued me\u2014they were creepy and dark and fantastic. I loved his images of the horned, shaggy-albeit-well-dressed, angst-ridden Beast. Interestingly, we … <\/p>\n

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