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.
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 develop that relationship. To the point where I should probably post on my LJ and let people know about that. (I'm in fandom, and in femslash fandom, and we make a point of letting each other know about canon f/f relationships.)
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.
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 develop that relationship. To the point where I should probably post on my LJ and let people know about that. (I'm in fandom, and in femslash fandom, and we make a point of letting each other know about canon f/f relationships.)
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All I know for certain is that I'll be doing *something* with them :-)
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