Sky Sommers
Sky mostly writes retold fairytales with dry humour where secrets are peeled back like onions. Sometimes, in her standalones, she likes to make you choose, depending on your disposition (optimist vs pessimist) - coz the path that awaits depends on the decisions we take. She lives in Tallinn, Estonia, travels a lot, but less now that her kid has gone to school.
Besides fairytales, Sky keeps experimenting with different genres: myths&legends; steampunk; post-apocalyptic scifi; quirky fantasy romance and alternative history to name a few that are currently in the works.
My Books
Charm & Mayhem: The Goddess of Fate
Hiring a hot angel as her bodyguard was a smart business move… wasn’t it? Strictly business.
This Goddesses Series starter (book #1) is now available in ebook format.
Life & Death: The Goddess of Light
To die, to sleep, perchance… well, Death can’t. Not before she finds someone to take over her job.
Book #2 in the Goddesses Saga – Life&Death: The Goddess of Light – can be read as a standalone romance.
Love & Money: The Goddess of Luck
One stubborn warrior in pursuit of the Goddess of Lust who doesn’t believe in love.
Book #3 in the Goddesses Series is a romcom and can be read as a standalone.
Fire & Ice: The Goddess of Frost
What if you don’t have forever to wait until your first love notices you?
Book #4 in the Goddesses Series is available from June 22nd.
The Magic Mirrors Saga
A 5 fairytale mashup in 1 Cinders-Embers-Ash trilogy omnibus set. Yup, 5-in-1: Cinderella, Red Riding Hood, Hans&Greta, Belle&Beast and Wizard of Oz retellings. Deliciously dark. Twisty-turney. Secrets peeled back like onions.
Cinders: Necessary Evil
An illustrated double Cinderella retelling for adults – stepmother vs 17yo Ella’s diary of events
Embers: Beastly Curses
A Red Riding Hood multigenerational retelling with an interwoven second chances romance.
Ash: Crooked Fates
Tales of the Mirrors
5 short standalone stories related to magic mirrors to complement The Magic Mirrors Saga.
Tales of the Shoes
The second instalment of Tales from the Magic Kingdom: 5 short standalone spinoff stories related to magic shoes Cinderella wore to the ball which her younger sister Ellie snagged from the Wicked Witch of the West – to complement The Magic Mirrors Saga.
Tales of the Dragons
The third instalment of Tales from the Magic Kingdom: 5 short standalone stories related to the dragon princes Greta met when abducted by Eddie the 6-headed dragon.
Enchanted Waters
A magical collection of brand new sea-themed fairytales collecting donations for Oceana to keep our oceans safe.
Enchanted Forests
A magical collection of new fairytales set in the forest, collecting donations for Rainforest Foundation to support indigenous and traditional peoples in their effort to protect the environment.
Enchanted Flames
An illustrated collection of ten incendiary fairytales, collecting donations for World Land Trust to help communities prone to wildfires.
Enchanted Skies
A collection of eight short fantasy stories by USA Today bestselling, award-winning and up-and-coming indie authors, collecting donations to combat air pollution or provide torrent weather relief.
To Thaw A Heart
A clean multigen (YA/NA) prequel novella to Cinders: Necessary Evil and Charm&Mayhem: The Goddess of Fate.
To Cure A Curse
A clean YA prequel novella to Cinders: Necessary Evil. If you’ve read my Thumbelina, you’ll find the zombie fairy quite familiar.
Once Upon A Name
A collection of clean quirky, strange and out right unusual short stories collecting donations for Book Aid International to support literacy.
My story, Yumiko’s revenge is probably the most gruesome I’ll ever write, but it’s all about the blood-lapping magic boots. (Hey, it takes a lot of energy transporting people from A to B and cleaning up their messes, so yes, the boots take blood and life-years as payment and resurface again in Cinders: Necessary Evil and Life&Death: The Goddess of Light. And Ash: Crooked Fates as well.)
Twice Upon A Name
A collection of clean short tales of mixups and mistaken identities to support literacy.
My story, To Find A Queen is about Nefarious Russelbulb the Seventh hunting down a girl who would become Queen Gretel Crimsonlocks.
Third Name’s A Charm
A collection of clean short tales of trios and triple threats to support literacy.
My story, To Catch a Thief is a mashup of Rapunzel and Snow White. There be dragons.
I decided to submit a different story, but To Spot a Swan with Hades myths will eventually be published as I hope to link it to my academy series (secret project, ssshhh).
Goddesses: The Bet
A friendship fiction book about ancient goddesses grappling with a bet gone wrong. It’s 0.5 prequel to the Goddesses Saga, but can be read as a standalone.
This Time Around
Dystopian is a vastly different genre from my usual fairytales, but this is actually the first book I ever wrote (and didn’t publish). I published Goddesses: The Bet instead. Go figure.
Recruit Me: A prequel novella to Agency of the Guardian Angels series
Do you require the services of a Guardian Angel? What’ll it be, a Prince Charming, a Knight in Shining Armour or a proper Guardian Angel? With or without wings?
Delve Into Magic Kingdom
Book of the Month
"Unputdownable! I do love a good fairytale retelling and this incredible read has five of them and they are soooooooo good! Well written and told with the authors unique take, you will find your self drawn in hook, line and sinker. Twists and turns to keep you guessing, descriptive and beautiful world building and incredible character development, this was unputdownable and I throughly enjoyed each and every tale!"
"/.../ a story so different to anything I've read before. /.../ Belle, Alice, Puss, Oz, Cinderella, and so many more, manipulated, intertwined to fit the narrative and what is the narrative, you might question? Well... it's all wound up in a pair of crystal shoes, sentient shoes which exact a price for donning them, not always a price worth paying but, oh well, if you WANT the shoes, which everyone does, for different reasons of course, you better know what you're letting yourself into! Seamlessly flowing from one to the next, I applaude Ms Sommers for a very fresh take on fairytales, a very fresh take on capturing a storyline and going all out with it! Familiar scenes completely turned on it's head, characters completely made anew, and the result? A very entertaining, albeit very unusual read!"
Tales of the Dragons
How can you break a curse when the only remedy is an accidental True Love's Kiss?
They say 7 mysterious princes rule the Dragon Realm. Nobody knows for sure. Their kingdom is hidden and access is by invitation only. Headcount per prince is...more than anyone should have, they say. Scales as black as their souls, they say. "They" say quite a few things. Including about an unbreakable curse plaguing the dragon princes, none of whom can find love.
But what if they could? What if accidental True Love's Kisses could be orchestrated?
Read this enchanting last instalment in the Mirrors-Shoes-Dragons short story sets and find out.
The stories in this set include:
- To Snare a Prince - a Hans&Greta spin-off (previously in the Enchanted Forests anthology);
- To Find a Queen - where dark elves try to prevent Greta's rise to queendom (previously in the Twice Upon a Name anthology);
- To Steal a Kiss - where Greta breaks the dragon curse (previously in the Enchanted Flames anthology);
- To Host a Ball - a 12 Dancing Princesses retelling (previously in the Enchanted Skies anthology);
- To Catch a Thief - a Rapunzel / Snow White mashup retelling (previously in the Third Name's a Charm anthology).
These short stories link to the author’s other works, but are related standalones that can be read separately as small soundbites.
OUT Sept 21st, 2024