Guest Post: A Fantasy Reader's Demands
Guest Post
While I am neither a heroine, nor anybody's fantasy, I have a guest post up this month at Heroines of Fantasy, called, A Fantasy Reader's Demands. Read it or need it. You have been warned.
In the Mail
As many of you are already aware, my second book, The Deserter, already available on this side of the Atlantic, will be making its North American début on March 13. I received two lovely hardback copies of the US edition the other day. I am very pleased :)
Reading
Remember that wonderful run of great books I was having last month? That ship went into sudden reverse with three leaky ducks* in a row. Luckily, I have been rescued by Margo Lanagan's latest The Brides of Rollrock Island. I love her work. I am especially fond/fearful of the way she twists my little brain into shapes that nature never intended.
The blurb is here:
Rollrock island is a lonely rock of gulls and waves, blunt fishermen and their homely wives. Life is hard for the families who must wring a poor living from the stormy seas. But Rollrock is also a place of magic - the scary, salty-real sort of magic that changes lives forever. Down on the windswept beach, where the seals lie in herds, the outcast sea witch Misskaella casts her spells - and brings forth girls from the sea - girls with long, pale limbs and faces of haunting innocence and loveliness - the most enchantingly lovely girls the fishermen of Rollrock have ever seen.But magic always has its price. A fisherman may have and hold a sea bride, and tell himself that he is her master. But from his first look into those wide, questioning, liquid eyes, he will be just as transformed as she is. He will be equally ensnared. And in the end the witch will always have her payment.Margo Lanagan has written an extraordinary tale of desire, despair and transformation. In devastatingly beautiful prose, she reveals unforgettable characters capable of unspeakable cruelty - and deep unspoken love. After reading about the Rollrock fishermen and their sea brides, the world will not seem the same.
Watching
Still enjoying Luck, Friday Night Lights and a few other shows. We have also begun a rewatch of series one of Game of Thrones in time for the second series. Great stuff. Seriously, if you live over here, Sky Atlantic is the best channel ever.
More soon.
*According to my personal taste.
While I am neither a heroine, nor anybody's fantasy, I have a guest post up this month at Heroines of Fantasy, called, A Fantasy Reader's Demands. Read it or need it. You have been warned.
In the Mail
As many of you are already aware, my second book, The Deserter, already available on this side of the Atlantic, will be making its North American début on March 13. I received two lovely hardback copies of the US edition the other day. I am very pleased :)
Reading
Remember that wonderful run of great books I was having last month? That ship went into sudden reverse with three leaky ducks* in a row. Luckily, I have been rescued by Margo Lanagan's latest The Brides of Rollrock Island. I love her work. I am especially fond/fearful of the way she twists my little brain into shapes that nature never intended.
The blurb is here:
Rollrock island is a lonely rock of gulls and waves, blunt fishermen and their homely wives. Life is hard for the families who must wring a poor living from the stormy seas. But Rollrock is also a place of magic - the scary, salty-real sort of magic that changes lives forever. Down on the windswept beach, where the seals lie in herds, the outcast sea witch Misskaella casts her spells - and brings forth girls from the sea - girls with long, pale limbs and faces of haunting innocence and loveliness - the most enchantingly lovely girls the fishermen of Rollrock have ever seen.But magic always has its price. A fisherman may have and hold a sea bride, and tell himself that he is her master. But from his first look into those wide, questioning, liquid eyes, he will be just as transformed as she is. He will be equally ensnared. And in the end the witch will always have her payment.Margo Lanagan has written an extraordinary tale of desire, despair and transformation. In devastatingly beautiful prose, she reveals unforgettable characters capable of unspeakable cruelty - and deep unspoken love. After reading about the Rollrock fishermen and their sea brides, the world will not seem the same.
Watching
Still enjoying Luck, Friday Night Lights and a few other shows. We have also begun a rewatch of series one of Game of Thrones in time for the second series. Great stuff. Seriously, if you live over here, Sky Atlantic is the best channel ever.
More soon.
*According to my personal taste.
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