She popped this out FAST.
I went to the reading she did here in Seattle on Wed. night, and she said the next one is already at the publisher.
You know, I just... I woke up, and I looked in the mirror, and I thought, hey, what's with all the sin? I need to change. I'm... I'm dirty. I'm, I'm bad with the... sex and the envy and that, that loud music us kids listen to nowadays.
Buffy ,'Lessons'
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."
Atropa - Mar 30, 2007 1:20:19 pm PDT #2439 of 28175
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Strix - Mar 30, 2007 1:23:22 pm PDT #2440 of 28175
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Holy shit! Dayum, girl! But that's awesome news.
How was the reading?
Beverly - Mar 30, 2007 1:25:00 pm PDT #2441 of 28175
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Pimps. I just ordered the first two Harrisons used off the internet. I loved Greywalker and I'm enjoying His Majesty's Dragon and have the next two set to go, and the first two Dresdens after that. But the Harrisons sounded so *good*!
Atropa - Mar 30, 2007 1:28:16 pm PDT #2442 of 28175
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
How was the reading?
It was fun. She's good with a crowd. I will admit, there were a couple ladies there who were shining examples of every bad media cliché of women who read vaguely smutty vampire fiction. (I kept wanting to go up to them and say "Look, it's possible to look vaguely gothy AND polished when you are a larger woman who is no longer in her teen years. Here, let me fix your eyeliner." I am a bad and somewhat petty person. But I controlled myself.)
The thing that impressed me most from the reading is that Kim Harrison doesn't really do any sort of occult/witchy research for her books; she makes most of it up. Considering how well it all holds together, I was amazed she didn't do tons of spoooooky research.
beth b - Mar 30, 2007 1:30:36 pm PDT #2443 of 28175
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
I am reading Swordspoint right now, and it is taking me a long time to read. It is good, but not my cup of tea. ( I have no idea what I mean by that)
The new Harrison book is out in hardcover. Both my sister and I were somewhat disappointed in the general direction they seem to be leaning. We both were unhappy with the direction that the relationship with the witch's partner has taken Too much "'eww... but I am intrigued" .
Connie Neil - Mar 30, 2007 1:32:15 pm PDT #2444 of 28175
brillig
I'm going to have to track down and buy a copy of Swordspoint of my very own. And resist the urge to "liberate" the library's copy. I'd pay for it.
Strix - Mar 30, 2007 1:33:43 pm PDT #2445 of 28175
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
(I kept wanting to go up to them and say "Look, it's possible to look vaguely gothy AND polished when you are a larger woman who is no longer in her teen years. Here, let me fix your eyeliner." I am a bad and somewhat petty person. But I controlled myself.)
Sweetie, you're GMM (you always will be to me; damn the trademark!) I think you need a business card and a Goth ER kit and you can have your own "Gothy ReVamp" show! You could go to conventions and signings and do makeovers!
I would totally watch it.
Beverly, I think you'll really enjoy them. My sister gave me the ARC of the 1st, and I was instantly hooked.
I think many Buffistas could write a para novel w/o research based on their own genre and personal fun reading infoslutting.
Consuela - Mar 30, 2007 1:39:38 pm PDT #2446 of 28175
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
t is heretical
I could go to the end of my life without knowing the end of HP book 7 and it would be okay.
I mean, I'll read the last book eventually, because they're fun, but I'm not particularly invested.
Amy - Mar 30, 2007 1:42:59 pm PDT #2447 of 28175
Because books.
I was going to pick up one of the Harrisons one day, but I'm still slogging through Kelley Armstrong's Otherworld series, and I'm stuck on Industrial Magic. I thought Dimestore Magic was a bit overwrought, even for a magical world, but her tone is so ... flat. I don't know. I loved the two books with Elena the werewolf, but the witches are so far leaving me cold.
Atropa - Mar 30, 2007 1:47:09 pm PDT #2448 of 28175
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
AmyLiz, I didn't like Industrial Magic either. It seemed like it should be the sort of book I'd enjoy, but no. "Flat" is right.
(Insert standard Jilli rant about trying to find good paranormal fiction here)