OF SWINGS AND ROUNDABOUTS

Yes, I saw it coming; Planeta had the rights for the whole Storm Sisters saga, but only the first installment was translated and published. 
No Export For You. 
Money, Dear Girl.
Blame the inflexible law of supply and demand.
Luckily, thanks to my good fairy godperson, I am going to obtain the installments so far in original English at the end of this month, for my 26th birthday.

Speaking of which...

There are still girl power novels on the horizon... Planeta has had translated As Old as Time. Never heard of it? Well, it's a famous novel by Liz Bradwell that is a rewriting of the great eighteenth-century fairytale, focused on the rhetorical question...:
What if Belle's mum was the fairy who turned the Prince into his inner Beast? What if she left her husband and child because muggle-fairy marriages rarely work, feigning her own death to keep them safe? What if the half-blood Belle herself, as a consequence, has inherited latent powers? 

Clever, restless bluestocking Belle is weary of her provincial life, dreaming to explore the wide world. However, everything changes when she becomes the prisoner of the Beast.

Upon touching the hidden red rose, her mind is filled with images of her missing mother, now revealed to be the one who cursed the selfish Prince and all of his courtiers. Will Belle and the Beast, together, unravel the mystery that tied their two families together years ago?

DEFINITELY LOOKING FORWARDS TO IT!

As Old as Time is part of a series of twice-told fairytales of which we wish to see more installments released in Spain; a series called Twisted Tales. It's a tetralogy (so far), the three first books by Liz Braswell, and the fourth, Reflection (Savitri and Satyavan starring Fa Mulan and Lee Shang!), by Elizabeth Lim. The other three installments take us to the Middle Ages with Maleficent in Once Upon a Dream, to the Golden Age of Islam with Jasmine in A Whole New World, and to the Han Dynasty with Fa Mulan in Reflection (Savitri and Satyavan starring Fa Mulan and Lee Shang!).

A Whole New World: What if Aladdin never found the lamp?

Instead, Jafar is the one who finds it and makes the first wish... for a coup d'état. Deposed from her rightful throne, the once Crown Princess Jasmine decides to stop the now power-drunken usurper and put an end to his reign of terror, not for claiming what is hers by right, but for the welfare of her subjects. The revolution she starts alongside Enjolraic streetrat and rebel leader Aladdin, however, threatens to tear the Sultanate of Agrabah apart by civil war...

Once Upon a Dream: What if Aurora never woke up?

It should have been simple: slay that dragon, cut through that hedge of thorns, pass by all those slumbering guards and courtiers, then up the spiral staircase into the Rose Tower... However, when Prince Philip himself falls unconscious as his lips touch those of his sleeping fiancée... it is clear that the fairytale is far from over.

Aurora and Philip find themselves in their shared dreamland, trying to escape a completely different fortress and completely different thorns; those created by the inner landscape of their subconscious, by identity crises, by their own hopes and anxieties, putting them to the test. With Maleficent's agents following their every move, but also with the three godmothers' assistance, will these two young royals ever awaken from their dream?

Reflection: What if Fa Mulan had to descend to the underworld?

When her dashing commanding officer and closest friend, Lee Shang, is mortally wounded in battle, Fa Mulan must travel to the afterlife to save him from certain death. But the ruler of the Underworld (the Eastern Hades, AKA Yamaraja or Enma-Daioh) is not willing to give Shang up that easily. With the help of Shang's spirit guardian lion, Mulan must traverse the afterlife, fending off harrowing obstacles, to find her commanding officer's spirit and leave by sunrise... or become the Underworld's prisoner forever. Moreover, Mulan is still disguised as the common soldier Fa Ping, wrestling with the decision to reveal her true identity to her closest friend. Will Mulan be able to save Shang before it’s too late? Will he ever be able to trust her again? Or will she lose him–and be lost in the Underworld–forever?

(This one is the one I hold the most expectations towards... it's very rarely you get a fantasy retelling of Savitri and Satyavan; I also admire the Snow Queen elements in here, as well as the military setting and one of my Disney OTPs in the lead roles...!)

So, all we have to do is hope As Old as Time gets enough demand in Spain for the rest of the book series to get translated and published. For, as it happened to the Storm Sisters series and the Waterfire Saga, they might claim the rights for a few books and, if the first one does not sell enough, decide not to publish the rest (WHAM!!!).

Therefore... let's keep our fingers crossed...