Issue Two: Fairy Tales, Folktales, and Fables – July 2018

Letter from the editors:

Dear Readers,

Thank you for reading the second issue of Deep Overstock, the booksellers’ journal.

Once upon a time (way back in March 2018), Deep Overstock started as a way to get booksellers connected and working creatively together. So many of our fellow bookstore employees are writers, illustrators, or comic artists. We wanted to give ourselves a deadline and a venue to explore new work.

With this issue, we hoped to draw in as many people as possible, and and is there a genre more universal than the fairy tale? As booksellers we come into contact with these stories every day. As kids we all grew up with them in one form or another. Who can forget stories about crowns that prick your finger and curse your family to generations of murder and cannibalism, or bewitchings because fairies in disguise watched you spit your gum on the street. (Just us?)

Our contributors have shown how many different directions we can take  the fairy/folktale, from the very beginning, with a reimagined Eden, through shadow puppet theater and magic spells, to end with a happily (or not-so-happily) ever after.. Even Goldilocks herself would have to say that this issue is “just right.”

We’re also excited to announce the theme for our next issue: Paranormal Romance. We invite you to supernaturally seduce us 😉

Signed,
Deep Overstock Editors