With the help of a mysterious new friend a recently widowed Father must traverse to a sinister world of dark magic to rescue his daughter from an all powerful queen.

What I had in mind was something quite dark -- the idea would be for the queen to take spiritual possession of the girl... maybe not entirely original, but I was seeing the main action with the father. You do make a very good point though. I do see it potentially fairy-talesque, there is a wicked queen after all... I'll continue to mess around with it -- well, until I hear back from the judges anyway... ;)

Thanks again for your, as always, well received feedback... and btw -- I'll be a few days on The Hunger Games... I ain't seen it yet :0

If the young girl is valuable enough to possess some mystical boon or charismatic potentiality that the evil queen wants to possess or gain control of, maybe the young girl should be the protagonist.

One reason I say that is because the natural audience for the genre, fantasy, is likely to slant younger rather than older.

A randomly generated, blatant and shamelessly commercial thought. :-)

If the young girl is valuable enough to possess some mystical boon or charismatic potentiality that the evil queen wants to possess or gain control of, maybe the young girl should be the protagonist.

One reason I say that is because the natural audience for the genre, fantasy, is likely to slant younger rather than older.

A randomly generated, blatant and shamelessly commercial thought. :-)