One of these days, THINGS will be as easy as they should be on paper. Or as easy as the internet tells me they'll be.

Who knew Mercedes Lackey had an entire line of music based on her books? BECAUSE I DIDN'T AND IT IS EPIC.

Next time somebody asks me what I want to be when I grow up, I'm just going to say "I want to be Mercedes Lackey".

Needless to say, looping the music on YouTube has made me very much want to read her books.

My question for my flist: where do I ( Read more... )

( This is a fake cut )I know that whatever it is, there is a very good possibility that it's a cash-cow-go-moo sort of situation...but I've got my fingers crossed for a story describing Dumbledore's relationship with Grendelwald, hence bringing a homosexual romance in a popular series that was really just talked about into the limelight. Granted, ( Read more... )

www.patriciabriggs.com/books/riverMarked.shtml

Patricia Briggs' comments on using Native American myths/culture in her work. I'm inclined to agree.

I would take it a step farther and say that myth and folklore are shared human, storytelling traditions that belong to everyone. I understand the need to respect the cultures they come from and treat it ( Read more... )

While reading Silver Borne, I came to a conclusion about Briggs' work.

Basically, it's good Urban Fantasy. It's not great, but it's decent. And I think it needs to be said that it maintains a fairly consistent quality throughout the entire series. It never goes beyond good, but that has its own benefits. I never feel like the odds are constantly ( Read more... )

I've been thinking about doing a re-read of the Harry Potter series, in light of my aims to write a (very short) crossover with the Cabal series, and reading reviews of the first couple chapters by some guy named Mark that was linked to me on Plurk. I feel like I'd appreciate them a lot more now, and things would have much more significance given ( Read more... )

Recently, I've developed a sudden and unexpected interest in the Transformer's fandom, both through the video games I've played and the Transformers Prime animated series. I also blame ghostofthemotif , who had the nerve to go and write AWESOME fanfic for it.

TF Prime - best children's show I've seen since Avatar: TLA. Granted, it's not QUITE as good as Avatar, ( Read more... )

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I'm pretty excited.

( SPOILERS for the first chapter and books before this )

Okay, I'm sure you've all heard me sing the praises of Nicole Galland. She's one of the only historical fiction writers that have I really, really liked. Her book "Crossed: A Tale of the Fourth Crusade" is easily one of my favorite books EVER, right up there with Dresden Files and Johannes Cabal as far as how the books have stayed with me. Her easy ( Read more... )

Ganked from flibbergibbet

1. Pick 10 of your favorite books or series'.
2. Post the first sentence of each book. (If one sentence seems too short, post two or three!)
3. Let everyone try to guess the titles and authors of your books.

EDIT: Okay, so actually this meme was for the FIRST LINE of 10 favorite books. I, in my eagerness to post this MEME, just took my ( Read more... )