From time to time, I get an e-mail or a comment from male readers who enjoyed my goblin books, but are hesitant to pick up Stepsister Scheme or Mermaid’s Madness because they look like they’re for girls.
You know, I hesitated on picking up those books because of the Charlie's Angels comparisons, and I love fairy tale rewrites. And mermaids!
Of course, once I did finally get past the "fairy tale princesses meets Charlie's Angels" comparison (due to desperately needing something to read one day), I stopped doing everything else and zoomed through both books in two days.
Totally awesome novels. And if they're "girly" books, in that they deal with emotions and feelings, then, yes, there's that, but there's plenty of action too. Which is just as girly, damn it, since I'm a girl and I like action.
Oh heck yes. I hadn't completely thought it through when I wrote the first book, but as soon as I started Mermaid I realized I needed to go somewhere with those two. I wasn't 100% sure where, but I couldn't just let it stagnate.
So while I won't tell you what's going to happen, I promise I'm going *somewhere* with it :-)
Oh, I'd probably use Mission: Impossible instead. You get the same intimation of a super-secret spy team sent out to do awesome things, but without the (in my opinion) rather icky faily bits of "women in clothing with no bras who are sent out under the direction of a man who recruited them because no one who's worth anything believes that girls can do anything important."
With Mission: Impossible, you have people who were recruited precisely because they can do awesome things that are very important, which is (imo again) exactly why Beatrice recruited Talia and Snow, and eventually Danielle too, out of all of the people whom she helped.
Er. I may have issues with the Charlie's Angels tv series? Which I watched in syndication a lot as a kid. After I read them, I called my mom and told her to ignore the CA comparisons and just read the books instead, because apparently that's why she had also avoided buying them. :( I'm sorry! Like I said, I love your books.
As to Talia/Snow, I'm beyond squeeful that you're going to
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Getting ready to start on the writing lunch break, but wanted to mention that while I'll definitely be working on Snow/Talia, I'm not 100% sure *how* that's going to work out yet. Book three goes in a different direction with those two, and I haven't figured out what sort of ending to give them by book four.
All I know for certain is that I'll be doing *something* with them :-)
Well, it's canon f/f. I'm aware that "happy ending" isn't something that will always happen. As long as they don't follow the dead/evil lesbian cliche (please?), I'll be happy.
Of course, once I did finally get past the "fairy tale princesses meets Charlie's Angels" comparison (due to desperately needing something to read one day), I stopped doing everything else and zoomed through both books in two days.
Totally awesome novels. And if they're "girly" books, in that they deal with emotions and feelings, then, yes, there's that, but there's plenty of action too. Which is just as girly, damn it, since I'm a girl and I like action.
Also? Talia/Snow FTW. :)
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"Also? Talia/Snow FTW."
Heh. I'm *very* interested in seeing how readers react to that relationship as it develops over the third and fourth books :-)
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So while I won't tell you what's going to happen, I promise I'm going *somewhere* with it :-)
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With Mission: Impossible, you have people who were recruited precisely because they can do awesome things that are very important, which is (imo again) exactly why Beatrice recruited Talia and Snow, and eventually Danielle too, out of all of the people whom she helped.
Er. I may have issues with the Charlie's Angels tv series? Which I watched in syndication a lot as a kid. After I read them, I called my mom and told her to ignore the CA comparisons and just read the books instead, because apparently that's why she had also avoided buying them. :( I'm sorry! Like I said, I love your books.
As to Talia/Snow, I'm beyond squeeful that you're going to ( ... )
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All I know for certain is that I'll be doing *something* with them :-)
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