C. Gockel's Blog, page 54
July 21, 2015
July 20, 2015
"Roses are red, violets are blue; sugar is sweet, death is inevitable."
- Hel, probably. (via incorrectedda)
Norse mythology in a nutshell
Everyone else: Pretty much.
Loki: I mean, it would really fuck shit up.
Everyone else: Basically.
Loki: Can you even imagine what would happen if someone actually did the thing? Like, wow. Everything on fire. People screaming and shit. Absolute carnage. Thor in tears. Freyja on a rampage. Odin crying into his eye patch. Just imagine.
Everyone else: That's essentially the situation.
Loki: Thank Asgard that no-one has taken it upon themselves to do the thing. I, for one, am gracious that the thing has not been undertaken yet. May it remain this way for literally hours to come.
Everyone else: You've done the thing, haven't you?
Loki: I am agog. I am aghast. How could you insinuate that I, Loki, the Trickster god, would have done the thing? This is an outrage. I won't stand for it. I demand a lawyer and also a horse.
Everyone else: There's a note here that says 'I totally did the thing, you bunch of jerkwads, ha-ha-ha I tricked you so good, signed Loki xxx'
Loki: ... in hindsight, I may, in fact, have done the thing. But it was just a little joke. A little chuckle amongst friends. Tomfoolery. Japes. A tiny trick.
Everyone else: The world is literally ending because you did the thing.
Loki: Oh my Æsir, fine, I'll fix it. Fuck, why do I have to fix everything around here? Trickster god? Might as well call myself the Fixter god. Also my son is a wolf.
"A million dollars isn’t cool, you know what’s cool? A basilisk."
- Jörmungandr, probably.
(via incorrectedda)
July 18, 2015
FREE TODAY ON AMAZON: LOKI by Mike Vasich (I don’t know how long...
FREE TODAY ON AMAZON: LOKI by Mike Vasich (I don’t know how long it will last). I haven’t read this book (I stopped reading stories about Loki while writing I Bring the Fire) Anyway, at Free I don’t think you can go wrong. It’s also in Kindle Unlimited, so you could borrow it, too, and Nine Naughty Tales of the Trickster which goes along with it.
July 16, 2015
In the Norse myths, Thor and Loki often chowed down together.
In the Norse myths, Thor and Loki often chowed down together.
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The production value on this vine…
Freyja apparently has a masculine form.
July 15, 2015
cgockel:
I haven’t read K.F. Breene’s series. But she is a...
I haven’t read K.F. Breene’s series. But she is a friend, and we have a lot of readers in common. Thought I’d post this in case y’all follow her and had missed her latest release. Shadowlands is the third in the series, it’s $3.99. Chosen, the first book in the series is only 99¢.
Again, have not read this series, but since so many of my fans are her readers, I thought I’d mention it.
July 11, 2015
People, people, PEOPLE! The Wild Hunt by Ron C. Nieto is on sale...
People, people, PEOPLE! The Wild Hunt by Ron C. Nieto is on sale today for 99 cents!
You can get it on Amazon, Kobo, iBooks, and Nook
I read The Wild Hunt a while ago but didn’t promote it immediately. I worry about gushing over a first in series and having the next in series never come. Blah. But the next in series, The Wild Curse, is out too! I will confess, I begged Ron to let me read it in beta because I liked The Wild Hunt so much. I read it unedited, and in the rough draft stages and can tell you, even that way The Wild Curse was well worth reading … but I’m getting ahead of myself. Let me tell you a bit about the first in series, The Wild Hunt.
The Wild Hunt takes place in modern day Scotland and in faerie realms. We see lots of scary faeries, and Legolas type faeries, and giant monstrous faeries. The story starts off with the heroine’s grandmother, a “Faerie Doctor” being kidnapped. Lily, our heroine goes off to rescue her with the aid of a kelpie that is in the Faerie Doctor’s debt. For those of you who don’t know, kelpies are tricksters that eat people. Yes, eat people. Anyway, Lily, and said kelpie set off to find Lily’s grandmother and their journey takes them through the shifting landscapes of two realms.
Why I loved it …
It starts out in the omniscient point of view. Honestly, I hate the omniscient point of view, usually, but Ron’s omniscient point of view is so lovely and flowing it just works.The language in both books is almost lyrical. The story is about faeries and the lovely lyrical style Ms. Nieto writes in just feels right for fairly tales. Ms. Nieto confessed to me that she is a native Spanish speaker, and I don’t know how to explain it, but I think that adds a richness to her language and voice, a certain lyricism.
There is a cool grandma in this story–I probably don’t have to explain myself
Lily is sixteen, and she acts her age but she isn’t foolish to move the plot along. She does manage to look out for herself and her grandmother’s interests among some much older treacherous types.
The faeries aren’t perfect. A lot of Lilly’s problems happen because they’re kind of a$$h0l3$.
There is no good or evil.
Lily grows a lot … which is to be hoped, but often doesn’t happen. The growth happens from the get go, but especially in the second book.
Oh, and there is no love at first sight in this book (or, err … much love at all. That develops later). I’m all for attraction at first sight, but LAFS throws me for a loop.
The only thing bad … You will have to buy the sequel to get to a satisfying ending. (And that is still open. But in a good way.)
So pick it up on Amazon, Kobo, iBooks, or Nook
If you’ve already read it, pick up The Wild Curse on Amazon , Kobo, iBooks, or Nook.
