I came to urban fantasy via my love for SF/Fantasy.  I always wanted to be a fantasy/SF author, and I grew up on Bradbury, Pohl, Asmiov, Clarke, and moved into Marion Zimmer Bradley, Anne McCaffrey, Joan D. Vinge, Greg Bear, Tanith Lee.  And then I began moving into Charles de Lint, Anne Rice, etc.  After awhile I just shifted into urban fantasy ( Read more... )

This question is for readers and writers alike.

Where are your favorite places to read?  Do you have a special nook you like to curl up in?  Outside on the deck?  In the tub?  I realized the other night my favorite two places to read are sprawled on the bed with the cats, and the second is kind of odd--it's with me leaning over my smaller exercise ( Read more... )

Well, I didn't FORGET it's out, I just forgot to mention it.  I've been swamped.

So Night Huntress came out on January 6th.  This is book five in my Otherworld (aka Sisters of the Moon) Series (why two names for the series?  That's what you get for naming a series and getting your readers used to calling it that before the publisher officially gives ( Read more... )

I'm so thrilled--got the cover for Demon Mistress today and they just keep getting better and better in this series. :)  I'm thrilled with it, my editor and agent are thrilled.  The cover artist really *gets* my characters--and it's not always common for that to happen.  Out of 22 covers now, I've had two that made me cry (and not because I was ( Read more... )

Crossposted from my personal blog.

Transom: an opening over the door or through the door (often with a window which could be opened to cool down the room).
Over the Transom: especially in older days of publishing (i.e.: most likely before the 70s), writers/postal carriers routinely delivered manuscripts 'over the transom' when the publisher wasn't ( Read more... )

Crossposted from my personal blog:

I have accepted a fantastic new contract with Berkley to write a second urban fantasy series--it's not YA, but it's aimed at a slightly younger market (16 and up).  For now we're calling it the Elemental Magic Series and I don't have a release date for the first book yet, but at this point, we're looking at one ( Read more... )

Recently I had the chance to interview Yasmine Galenorn, whose Otherworld series has been burnin' up the bestseller lists, become more popular with each release.

Hi Yasmine, and thanks for answering some questions for me!

Rachel: Why do you write urban fantasy/paranormal romance? What drew you to the genre?

Yasmine: I knew I wanted to be a writer from ( Read more... )

It's raining, thunder/lightning here (yeah, I know but it's not bad enough to turn off the computer yet).  I live in the Seattle area where overcast is a way of life, where the gloom creeps into every corner most of the year.  I have S.A.D. to an extent, but I've discovered that too much sun makes me nervous and jittery (too much as in, without a ( Read more... )

....now to hold my breath, see how it does, see how people like it, and all that good stuff while nursing a fragile kitty who recently went through major surgery.  Talk about roller coaster rides.  It seems like a lot of the times, when something great happens, there are other things that come up, slap me in the face and say "Remember, it can all ( Read more... )

Tonight (Wednesday), I’ll be a guest on the Raven Internet Talk Radio show.  It’s a live call-in show (but I don’t think it’s toll-free) so if you feel like it, give me a call when I’m on there. :)  I’ll be on from 11-12 EDT, 8-9 PDT.

Yasmine