This short story by Max Gladstone may be of interest to some in the room: "A Kiss With Teeth"
You got all kinds of learnin' and you made me look the fool without tryin', and yet here I am with a gun to your head. That's 'cause I got people with me. People who trust each other, who do for each other, and ain't always lookin' for the advantage.
Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
hippocampus - Oct 29, 2014 9:21:34 am PDT #22807 of 28461
not your mom's socks.
EpicTangent - Oct 29, 2014 11:02:45 am PDT #22808 of 28461
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Excellent story!
Great line from early in made me laugh:
in the sixties he met a traveling volcano god in Fiji, who’d given up sacrifices when he found virgins could be had more easily by learning to play guitar
Connie Neil - Oct 29, 2014 12:52:08 pm PDT #22809 of 28461
brillig
My latest freebie ebook, The Housewife Assassin's Handbook, by Josie Brown. She works for a CIA subcontractor and is trying to avenge the murder of her husband, while taking care of her kids and suburban home. So far so good.
erikaj - Oct 29, 2014 1:38:28 pm PDT #22810 of 28461
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
That sounds super-cute--kind of like Susan Isaacs.
Atropa - Oct 29, 2014 5:57:45 pm PDT #22811 of 28461
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I finished Prince Lestat, and I had a lot of fun with it. No references to the Mayfair Witches crossover books! Lestat being, well, LESTAT.
I'd say, in terms of writing skill, Prince Lestat falls somewhere around the level of Queen of the Damned and The Witching Hour, but with a little more control. Everyone doesn't go off on epic historical philosophy tangents at the drop of a lace cravat.
Amy - Oct 29, 2014 5:59:12 pm PDT #22812 of 28461
Because books.
Aw, I loved the Mayfair witches! At least the first one.
Atropa - Oct 29, 2014 6:01:16 pm PDT #22813 of 28461
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Exactly. The first Mayfair Witches book is lots of fun. Lurid, sprawling family secrets, home decor and entertaining descriptions to make Martha Stewart sob in envy. But I recently tried to reread Lasher and Taltos, and ... wow. No.
Steph L. - Oct 29, 2014 6:29:38 pm PDT #22814 of 28461
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I will occasionally re-read just the Mona parts of Lasher. So much potential there, so utterly squandered.
Amy - Oct 29, 2014 6:55:05 pm PDT #22815 of 28461
Because books.
I love that you do that. I do that! I didn't know other people did, too.
Atropa - Oct 29, 2014 7:15:24 pm PDT #22816 of 28461
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
That's what I ended up doing this last time I tried to reread Lasher.