About the Author:

An Air Force wife, mommy of a little fairy, and Las Vegas native, my life is far from boring. I’ve written stories since I could hold a pen, so writing for a living is a dream come true, one that I carry out while staying at home with my baby girl. When I’m not writing or blogging, I can be found having fun with my family (husband, daughter, and spoiled black Labrador), doing chores (would much prefer writing), reading, going to church, belting Disney princess songs, exercising, or decorating cakes

I’m in love with stories. I’ve been narrating life in my head since I was little. It helps me to better understand life if I can hear it as if it were a story. Because if it is a story, it means, thanks the grace of God, there will be a happy ending. Living with Tourette Syndrome, chronic anxiety, and OCD tendencies (which I write about extensively on my other website, BrittanyFichterWrites.com), gives me the need to put life in perspective again on days when I struggle with my disorders. Writing fantasy helps me to do just that.

(As a side note, I know this bio is a little out of date, she also now has a little prince, as she calls him 😀 and, yes, they are both precious littles!! <3)

My Story:

Oooh! I have been soo super duper excited to post this Author Spotlight for forever! I’m just now getting around to it. (I figure since I just posted several reviews for her books this would be the perfect time!) If you have spent any time around me, or here on GraceBought, you should have figured out by now that Brittany Fichter is basically my hero. <3 I adore her, oh, and her books, too. 😉 And this is the story of how I found my new favorite author.

So, I graduated from college in May of 2017 and then moved in with my grandparents for a year to transition out of college life and into my own, so to speak. Well, after working full time and banking most of my checks thanks to my gracious grandparents, I finally decided to splurge and purchase my first Kindle. I’d heard about them and had loved my Nook for years, but I wanted a device that was fresh and new and all my own. (I’d previously shared my Nook account with my grandpa and so had both of our books on the same device. Fun fact: I still have it, though I don’t use it very often anymore.)

Lemme tell ya, it was amazing! I loved it. I’m very much a physical copy bookworm, and to this day I will claim them superior–uh, cause they are! I’ll add to my dragon hoard of a library all my life, but it is really nice to travel without the weight of fifteen books stuffed into my suitcase and carry-on bag. Just sayin’! On top of that, there are just some extras and shorts you can only get in the e-book form, which was my primary motivation for purchasing the kindle in the first place.

Well, wouldn’t you know it, Amazon is a really good marketer…and Kindle Unlimited kept popping up on my radar. Eh, I don’t really need it. I kept pushing it off until I stumbled across an add for A Dance of Silver and Shadow by Melanie Cellier in December of that same year. On KU. One free month? Then I can delete it? Sure. I’ll give it a go. I can at least read this book for free and then be done with it. Hah. Some of y’all are laughing at me cause you know how this ends.

Yup. I’ve still not cancelled the subscription two years later. And I don’t intend to anytime soon! Ten bucks and change a month, tons of great new authors, all-access library? Sign me up, baby! 

Anywho, back to the story here. I fell hard for Cellier’s 12 Dancing Princesses retelling cause it’s one of my favorite fairy tales and she did a magnificent job on it and that cover was gorgeous, guys! Needless to say, I immediately read the sequel and was quite put out to learn that there were only two books in the series. Then I realized it was a spin-off series from her Four Kingdoms books! So, chugged through all of those (four and two novellas at the time) and finished reading every Cellier book in print in like three weeks. Yes, I was on a bit of a rampage.

Naturally, I found Cellier’s website, signed up for her newsletter, and eagerly awaited any news whatsoever concerning her work. Lo and behold, not too long after that, she informed her beloved readers that she was releasing a new book, An Inconvenient Princess. But! Ah, yes, there was a catch. This book was the sixth in a series called the Entwined Tales in which each book would be penned by a different author. An interesting idea, and thanks to my OCD, I definitely wasn’t going to read them out of order. 

That series introduced me to five new authors, four of whom I marked down to read new books from and one of whom turned out to be the magical Brittany Fichter (Book 2 in case you were wondering).

Whew! That was a long backstory! But since I’ve found Fichter, it’s all been downhill from there, as evidenced by my gushing reviews (seriously, go read her stuff if you haven’t!!) I started with her original book The Autumn Fairy, and followed those as they released (excellent, by the way!). I’ve become a faithful member of her Facebook page, Britt’s Fellow Fairy Tale Fanatics, and a most grateful member of her ARC team. In 2019, one of my reading goals was to power through her Classical Kingdoms series, which I succeeded in doing. And I’ve been putty in her skillful hands ever since.

My Favorites:

Um, all of them? XD No, I seriously don’t think I could choose a favorite. It would be blasphemous. Fichter is a masterful storyteller and she works so incredibly hard on each and every project. She truly puts her heart and soul into these stories, and that’s why I love her. 

Fichter isn’t afraid of broaching hard topics and she doesn’t shy away from portraying the brokenness and heartbreak in our world. She meets the darkness head on and shines such incredible light in her stories. She is an incredible inspiration to be as a reader, a writer, and a person. I admire her work ethic, her integrity, and her heart. Fichter is amazing, really, really amazing. I am so blessed to have stumbled across such a beautiful soul.

And even more than who she is, Fichter writes a story, y’all! She writes with passion and depth. Her characters are to die for and her worlds are complex and compelling. Her retellings are unique and full of fire that just keep drawing me back for more. 

Her Autumn Fairy trilogy is excellent, as I mentioned above. She’s recently branched out and released two (of three planned) contemporary military romances (with subtle fairy tale themes in each). I’m not a contemporary romance reader, but these won me over, so I’d highly recommend them.

But when all is said and done, her Classical Kingdoms are absolutely stellar. She’s currently working on a Peter Pan retelling and I am SO EXCITED! But the latest book, Curse of Gems, really struck a chord with me and I must admit it’s one of my favorites of the series. And, of course her Little Mermaid retelling was phenomenal, Silent Mermaid. Cinders, Stars, and Glass Slippers is one of the best Cinderella retellings out there (and it’s cover is squeeeeee-worthy!). Her Beauty and the Beast trilogy is a staple. 

Mercy, let me just throw them all in here, since they’re all sooooo good! But, no, on a serious note, I honestly haven’t read a single book by her I wouldn’t recommend. They’re all amazing and beautiful and unique in their own right. I trust Fichter implicitly and cannot praise nor recommend her more highly. I will read every word this woman writes til the day I die and then look over her shoulder from heaven as she scripts more. Please, please, go give her a shot!

Okay, I’ll stop gushing now, but, looookkk! I got the unbelievable opportunity to meet her and her little darlings for an unforgettable afternoon at B&N last summer <3 

Links and More:

Fichter’s Official Website

Britt’s Fellow Fairy Tale Fanatics (We have a ton of fun here. It is a private page, but send in a request to join!) Also, here is her official author page on Facebook.

Find a full list of Fichter’s works here. 

Find Fichter on Goodreads and Instagram

Find Fichter’s books on Amazon or request them from your library or bookstore!

Also, her awesome sister-in-law does super pretty jewelry, and has even made pieces specific for Fichter’s stories! Check out Designed In Stone Jewelry!

I’ve rated and reviewed all of Fichter’s books on Goodreads (and here on GraceBought–yes, I am an ultra-Fichter nerd!!) you can find my thoughts on her books here!

Disclaimer: The pictures are all from Goodreads and the author’s biography is from Goodreads as well.