The Prior Quest (Bookania Short Stories): Kendra E. Ardnek: Amazon.com: Kindle Store

The Prior Quest (Bookania Short Stories): Kendra E. Ardnek: Amazon.com: Kindle Store:

Book Description

Publication Date: July 5, 2012

How far will a man go to repay a dept made in his youth? Push au Kim's life was spared by an enemy soldier, and he vowed to someday repay the man. When he finally finds him again, he finds that he has just died, leaving behind three sons.

Well, on to plan B.

Biography

Kendra E. Ardnek has been writing her own stories since she was a toddler. She fell in love with books, drama, and fairy tales at a very young age - and has been filling notebooks with her stories for years. Joining NaNoWriMo gave her an opportunity to be a published author at 16.

She writes her own blog (knittedbygodsplan.blogspot.com), homeschools, cooks, knits, and crafts when she isn't writing stories and acting them out with her younger cousins and siblings.

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Kendra has made up stories as long as she has been able to talk and think - even if most of those stories made no sense at all.  As she started school, her pens and crayons and pencils acted out increasingly elaborate stories and tales.

One day, I suggested she write a "fairy tale allegory" book or series.  We hashed out various ideas and over the next year, it morphed into her first book, "Sew, It's a Quest" in the land of Bookania.

One day, as she was writing and pondering the plot, she asked me to help her writer's block (she does this frequently) and I proposed an Eastern style man based loosely on Attila the Hun and mix it into a fairy tale.  Over the next week, we hashed a basic character and he found his way into "Sew, It's a Quest" with little background.  He really wasn't a very noticeable character - we called him Push au Kim (Poosh au Keem).  He wore an elaborate and strange costume of animal skins - and the most amazing boots.

Over the next year, we developed his background story, which didn't fit into any of the other books she was planning, after all, this story would have happened a decade prior to the Sew Quest.  (Hence the name - The Prior Quest).  Actually, I told her she should call it, Push in Boots.

It's a cute little story - only 10 pages long - and while it doesn't deviate a huge amount from it's "parent fairy tale" ... it serves to set the record straight as to what really happened!

If you haven't guessed by now - it is a rewrite of "Puss in Boots", as well as a similar tale of another land called, "How The Begger Boy Became Count Prio"  (a second reason for being called "The Prior Quest.")

We hope you enjoy her amusing little tale.

It may not be suitable as a bedtime story for a young child - as Push is quite ruthless, and sometimes his actions are violent and alarming.