Retelling Traditional Stories

What used to be called "the folk tale market" in American publishing seemed to putter out quietly at the end of the 1990's, so in the last decade I'd pretty much given up on being able to write retold stories again. So it's been an interesting experience to return recently to the form that was essentially my apprenticeship in story.I don't care too much for the catch-all term "folk tale". It seems to differentiate between classic, mythic traditions (that is to say religious traditions) an...