eCREATIVE MAGAZINE APRIL 2016 | Page 14

eCREATIVE Gryphons and Werewolves and Fairies, Oh My! Y ou might say that The Bluebird Prince, popular Atlanta playwright and author Evan Guilford-Blake’s newest work, has at least three lives. The concept has been a musical and a play produced in February 2013 by the East play to a novel for middle graders and their parents. The final draft was completed in mid-2015 and on April 8, 2016, The Bluebird Prince will be released through Rooster and Pig, a small publishing house in Independent, beautiful, female characters dominate this adventure. (Above: The Bluebird Prince book cover and author Evan Guilford-Blake) Valley Children’s Theatre of Mesa Arizona and published by Pioneer Drama Services, a leading publisher of youth plays in the United States. Recognizing the booming market for middle grade readers, Guilford-Blake converted the New York State named for the Chinese zodiac signs of its original founders. Readers will find this is a different kind of fairy tale in many ways. Set in the faraway land of Elgaria, the