I'd rather stay home and watch television. It's often funnier than killing stuff.

Anya ,'Dirty Girls'


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."


meara - May 03, 2016 7:09:19 pm PDT #23910 of 28286

Sox, is the one character on the cover of your novella supposed to look like you? Because it totally does, to me...


amych - May 04, 2016 4:18:42 am PDT #23911 of 28286
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Sox, I read it without coming up for a breath, and it's wonderful.


-t - May 04, 2016 5:52:14 am PDT #23912 of 28286
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Agreed. I need to read it again, but first I had to go find and reread The Topaz Marquise. This is only my third favorite Sox-verse, but it ranks way up there in general.


hippocampus - May 04, 2016 9:01:32 am PDT #23913 of 28286
not your mom's socks.

This is wonderful to hear. Thank you, Amych and t- (if I can ask what are the other two?)


-t - May 04, 2016 9:38:10 am PDT #23914 of 28286
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

#1 is the one with, oh gosh I beta-read that story so long ago I will probably get all the details but it had to do with debt and a caper and I want to say a circus? I may have muddled it up, but I love that world so much.

#2 is Updraft/Cloudbound. To be fair, I may only love it more than Gemworld because I know more about it (ie know enough to have SO MANY QUESTIONS), but that's the current standing.


Calli - May 04, 2016 9:44:07 am PDT #23915 of 28286
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

If there are any Judith Tarr fans in the house, it looks like she could use some help. [link]


hippocampus - May 04, 2016 11:47:55 am PDT #23916 of 28286
not your mom's socks.

Because this belongs in literary: Way to go Gud!

t- I think you betaed at least one I haven't released yet (circus-adjacent), plus the wasps. And yah. All the questions... I've gotten really good at not answering those. See: R/fantasy yesterday.


sj - May 05, 2016 5:20:53 am PDT #23917 of 28286
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

I grabbed my copy of Cog, Gud!

Sox, is the novella part of the Bone Universe or is it a separate thing? Because I could possibly find more time to read the novella first.


EpicTangent - May 05, 2016 12:25:16 pm PDT #23918 of 28286
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty

Got my e-copy of Cog, Gud, and added it to my "currently reading" section on Goodreads (which won't be actually accurate until my Kindle is back in range of my Wi-Fi, but still, boosting the signal!)


Beverly - May 05, 2016 12:31:25 pm PDT #23919 of 28286
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

Ordered a bound copy of Cog, Gud. And one of the novella, Fran, to keep Updraft company until Cloudbound is released.

I don't own a Kindle (I probably will, eventually), and truthfully, I'd rather have a book on my shelf, so that's what I buy. And will probably continue to, even if the day comes when most of my reading is done on a device.