What's Coming Up on This Blog
The truth is, I have tons and tons of things I could be writing on this blog, but so often I halt myself by thinking 1) no one cares 2) this is boring and/or narcissism 3) Avoid Controversy. Which is why I admire people whose personalities are bolder in this vein than my own. I talk a good game at home (usually to myself!) but not so much in public.
Anyway, I should be working right now but started reading Sherwood Smith's CORONETS AND STEEL and I just can't stop because it is hitting all my squee. I have not been able to read secondary world fantasy for the last few months because I'm so immersed in my own; this happens periodically (not often, thank goodness), and I have learned just to ride it out.
So mostly, besides the usual non fiction reading I am doing for research, I have been reading some historical romances, but the formula of the recent batch I read just got too repetitive for me, and unfortunately I have a hard time reading Urban Fantasy/Paranormal for some reason (although you should look for Katharine Kerr's LICENSE TO ENSORCELL, coming in February 2011, because it is fabulous). As it happens CORONETS AND STEEL offers this world and fantasy in a Ruritanian romance that is Just Right for my current mood.
Anyway, this coming week I hereby commit to providing capsule reviews (I am not a natural "reviewer" and I find "reviews" difficult to write even if they are only one paragraph of me telling you why I liked something) of Marianne de Pierres' GLITTER ROSE, and N.K. Jemisin's THE BROKEN KINGDOMS, both Out Now.
Finally, I have almost revised through the first 13 chapters of COLD FIRE. These chapters will either get the go-ahead from my editor, or she will tell me they have to be entirely rewritten from the ground up because the opening of COLD FIRE is a little odd in narrative terms. We shall see.
So, you have a choice, Peoples.
You can say nothing. Often a prudent choice.
You can tell me about your own reading cycles.
Or you can ask me a question about COLD MAGIC -- wait, never mind, I'll do that as its own spoiler-warning post later this week, too.
Onward.
Anyway, I should be working right now but started reading Sherwood Smith's CORONETS AND STEEL and I just can't stop because it is hitting all my squee. I have not been able to read secondary world fantasy for the last few months because I'm so immersed in my own; this happens periodically (not often, thank goodness), and I have learned just to ride it out.
So mostly, besides the usual non fiction reading I am doing for research, I have been reading some historical romances, but the formula of the recent batch I read just got too repetitive for me, and unfortunately I have a hard time reading Urban Fantasy/Paranormal for some reason (although you should look for Katharine Kerr's LICENSE TO ENSORCELL, coming in February 2011, because it is fabulous). As it happens CORONETS AND STEEL offers this world and fantasy in a Ruritanian romance that is Just Right for my current mood.
Anyway, this coming week I hereby commit to providing capsule reviews (I am not a natural "reviewer" and I find "reviews" difficult to write even if they are only one paragraph of me telling you why I liked something) of Marianne de Pierres' GLITTER ROSE, and N.K. Jemisin's THE BROKEN KINGDOMS, both Out Now.
Finally, I have almost revised through the first 13 chapters of COLD FIRE. These chapters will either get the go-ahead from my editor, or she will tell me they have to be entirely rewritten from the ground up because the opening of COLD FIRE is a little odd in narrative terms. We shall see.
So, you have a choice, Peoples.
You can say nothing. Often a prudent choice.
You can tell me about your own reading cycles.
Or you can ask me a question about COLD MAGIC -- wait, never mind, I'll do that as its own spoiler-warning post later this week, too.
Onward.
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