About Me
From my home in Poughkeepsie, I can walk to the train station. From the train station, I can get to Grand Central, that breath of high-ceiling-ed fresh air, in less than 2 hours. In my search for a job in the world of books and the people who love them, I have to make this trip often.
From the windows of the Metro North, upstate New York looks like an endless dark woods.
Here on the Train, I post reviews of fairy tale/folktale adaptations and children’s literature. I’ll rant about Peter Pan, introduce you to fairy tale scholars and writers, and keep you up to date on my own writing projects. Since starting this blog in 2011, I have had fiction and reviews published in a handful of journals, and am anticipating the publication of my first novel, a middle-grade fantasy due out next year from Hyperion. I have also had staged readings produced of three of my short Baba Yaga plays, and am looking forward to churning them together into a full-length work with the support of friends and other theatre folk just a train ride away in NYC.
Read more about my published work and freelance services at www.catefricke.com.
Thanks for reading!
Something to Read for the Train 
Wait, what is this Red Riding Hood on ABC Family you speak of???
I may have been generalizing my fall fairy tale shows–Once Upon A Time is on ABC (not ABC family), and Grimm, which looks very RRH-based, is on NBC, starting on Fri. At the point at which I wrote this, I was still getting them confused. Let’s keep our fingers crossed, though, that Grimm distinguishes itself from OUAT in a big way.
Yes, I’m looking forward to it. I was planning to watch OUAT but I missed it the other night. Was it Sunday? If so, I was watching Masterpiece, or I just forgot. But I’m disappointed to hear it wasn’t as good as it could have been.
See, until Downton Abbey returns, Masterpiece has lost its luster for me. I do like Jason Isaacs, though…
Cool blog. Is your fiction available anywhere?
Unfortunately not–haven’t had any luck publishing yet, but am working on it! Thanks so much for reading!
Same here on the publishing luck. I’d be curious to know what you think of my 2, short, self published ebooks. Have you considered that route? It’s somewhat painless.
You have been nominated (by me!) for the Kreativ Blogger Award. Keep up the great work!
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Thanks for following our blog. Cool blog and we are now following you. Keep good faith for the job and the publishing, it will happen! (That’s positive energy from TheBigForest for you!)
If you find the path out of No-Man’s-Land, will you point me in the right direction?
Hi there crfricke,
I really enjoyed reading this blog and your recently pressed article. Your fiction is very different to the kind I write, but I find it all very magical and interesting. Good luck with getting published.
Thank you! Thanks for reading.
Pleasure!
Enjoying , great work. I am in NO Something world after leaving a 16 year very successful career to work on my blog and recently acquired a Ghost writer for my memoir . Best of luck to you, I will be following from Oregon !!
I really like your blog! Is there anyway I can contact you about possible review titles. Please email me kenya(dot)walker@us(dot)penguingroup(dot)com
Like what you’re doing. There’s a blog called Helobiae, about two girls in a city on the water, great illustrations. have you seen it?
thank you so much for your blog. please continue to write…
your posts are absolutely wonderful.