Glass and Feathers

Wishes are Dangerous

They can bring you a night out, a gown, even a pair of slippers. Or something you never should have wished for in the first place.

After the royal wedding, the girl in the glass slippers has everything she ever wanted: an escape from a life of drudgery, an innate magical gift, and a devoted husband who looks at her like she is the only one in the room. But all wishes come with a price. To the people of the palace, she is an outsider, nothing more. Even her famous shoes cannot help her--the glass slippers no longer fit.

Glass and Feathers is a continuation of the traditional Cinderella tale. It transforms "Happy Ever After" and soars beyond it.

Praise for Glass and Feathers

“Highly recommended, especially for readers who enjoy novels based on fairy tale material. This beautifully written, imaginative story is certain to touch your heart...I'd like to see Glass and Feathers on my 'keepers' shelf...You'll never think of those slippers the same way again."

—Juliet Marillier, internationally acclaimed, award-winning author of Daughter of the Forest and Heart’s Blood

"Glass and Feathers takes the classic idea of ‘happily ever after’ and completely shatters it! If you love a fairy tale re-telling, add this to your list…"

—Kell Woods, author of After the Forest

“I love the way it questions the idea of happily ever after, as well as the crystal-clear prose. The language is so pretty and fragile, helping to evoke the main character’s mental state, creating a beautiful unity of effect.”

—Mary McMyne, author of The Book of Gothel

“[It’s] a wonderful, fresh and convincing continuation of Cinderella’s story”

—Sophie Anderson, author of The House With Chicken Legs and The Girl Who Speaks Bear

“In Glass and Feathers, Sloan deftly examines the nature of “happily ever after,” crafting a world in which impulsive wishes wound as deeply as the shards of ill-fitting glass slippers—yet a world that also celebrates the power of fairy tales to heal. A compassionate and worthy successor to traditional Cinderella stories.”

—Shveta Thakrar, author of the Andre Norton Nebula Award finalist Star Daughter

" This Cinderella based novel is stunning."

—Kim Malinowski, author of

Phantom Reflection and Buffy’s House of Mirrors

"Any long-time reader of Lissa Sloan's astonishing volume of work with fairy tales will already know how deftly and uncannily she casts spells on readers with her words - always delivering the surprise, the magic, the twists, turns, and her nuanced commentary on wonder, hope and the human condition. Her debut novel not only continues in this vein but also reads, at its heart, as a tribute to the power of storytelling...

You will want to make a permanent place on your shelf for this transformational tale."

—Gypsy Thornton, Editor, The Wondering & Once Upon A Blog: Fairy Tale News

“[It’s] the kind of story I’d forgotten was worth reading the hard parts for: the ones that teach lessons, the ones that make us feel raw things…Some stories have glass slipper shards that cut our feet and leave us bleeding. But afterward, we look at the scars and we see that we have healed, and not only that, that we are stronger because we fought for it. I highly recommend Glass and Feathers.”

—Grace Nuth, co-author of The Faerie Handbook: An Enchanting Compendium of Literature, Lore, Art, Recipes, and Projects

“I’ve read a lot of retellings and some of them have been inventive, but nothing as imaginative and creative and gorgeous and lush as this book…mostly this is a novel-length Cinderella/All-Fur reimagination. I think it’s the best I’ve ever read by far.”

—Susan Redington Bobby, creatrix of Professor of Words, LLC

“This is like no fairytale I have ever read, it was messy and it was beautiful…probably one of the most beautiful endings I’ve read for a fairytale…”

—@falling_into_books

March 26, 2024

Glass and Feathers is out now from

The Enchanted Press, publisher of The Fairy Tale Magazine.

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Cover Image (top) by Ebook Launch

All other images by Amanda Bergloff