Deborah L. Fruchey
I very seldom have a 'reading list,' unless you count books by authors I like which are not yet available. I just sort of amble through what's up and what sounds interesting and pick something. When I find an author I like, I go back & read every thing they ever put out. When I run out of things to read, I flip through my Kindle to see what books I have picked up cheap or free on Bookbub and not gotten to yet.
So far this summer, I was looking forward to 'Indigo' (Charlaine Harris), 'Down Among the Sticks & Bones' (Seanan McGuire, my very favorite for the last few years), and the newest Jane Yellowrock. I just recently discovered a writer (via Amazon's Fantasy listings) called Philip Armstrong. There is apparently another author with this name, but the one I found writes Fantasy (my all-time favorite genre), very long supernatural adventures set in the ancient world. The reframing of both history and myth is fascinating to me. As some of you know, I am creeping up on my own first Fantasy project and I never tire of seeing how other people do it.
Favorite authors include Patricia McKillip (oh, the magic!), Barbara Hambly, Sandra Ingerman (for shamanism), Neil Gaiman, Patricia Briggs, Robin Hobb, Faith Hunter (who I mentioned vis a vis Jane Yellowrock), Rowling (need I say? I also love her mysteries as Robert Galbraith), Ilona Andrews, Jim Butcher, Vera Nazarian, Lynn Flewelling, China Mieville (sheer genius!), and many others. I read constantly (as in, every night for hours) and probably also take in a fair amount of middling to junk fiction. It is just as important, however, for a writer to know how NOT to do it!
So far this summer, I was looking forward to 'Indigo' (Charlaine Harris), 'Down Among the Sticks & Bones' (Seanan McGuire, my very favorite for the last few years), and the newest Jane Yellowrock. I just recently discovered a writer (via Amazon's Fantasy listings) called Philip Armstrong. There is apparently another author with this name, but the one I found writes Fantasy (my all-time favorite genre), very long supernatural adventures set in the ancient world. The reframing of both history and myth is fascinating to me. As some of you know, I am creeping up on my own first Fantasy project and I never tire of seeing how other people do it.
Favorite authors include Patricia McKillip (oh, the magic!), Barbara Hambly, Sandra Ingerman (for shamanism), Neil Gaiman, Patricia Briggs, Robin Hobb, Faith Hunter (who I mentioned vis a vis Jane Yellowrock), Rowling (need I say? I also love her mysteries as Robert Galbraith), Ilona Andrews, Jim Butcher, Vera Nazarian, Lynn Flewelling, China Mieville (sheer genius!), and many others. I read constantly (as in, every night for hours) and probably also take in a fair amount of middling to junk fiction. It is just as important, however, for a writer to know how NOT to do it!
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