Hello book Buffistas! I am doing my once-in-a-great-while pop-in to the mother site to share news for those who may have missed it on the Facespace and the Twitterbooks. I have launched a Patreon and I'm posting weekly installments in a serial that will run until December of this year. It concerns a magical bookstore, gender shenanigans, and a shapeshifting wizard proprietor. If this sounds interesting, you can become a patron with full access for just $1. (More is permitted but not expected.)
You can check out the first part over here.
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^^^^^^ This is SO DELIGHTFUL and I'm loving it. Don't sleep on it.
Exciting! Good to see you and the linky. I don't get over to those other places to any great extent so didn't see the news.
Knut! Nice to see your pixels here. I shall check it out.
Laura, I'm so pleased you're enjoying the Chanur novels. Isn't Pyanfar the best? I want her to get her own tv series. I really enjoy Cherryh.
In other news, Mely mentioned Gillian Bradshaw's Cromwell-era historical novels on Twitter today; she's the only other person I know who has read them! We decided that Bradshaw is sadly under-rated and underappreciated, given the volume of really solid historical fiction she has produced over her career.
The Smart Bitches have three or four books available on sale every day. Today's included the N.K. Jemison Fifth Season. I check it out every day ... and have found some good books there (also some not so good ones, but at least I didn't pay full price).
Laura, I'm so pleased you're enjoying the Chanur novels. Isn't Pyanfar the best?
She certainly is. The current one, #3 The Kif Strike Back, has been a tougher read for me so far. Maybe because I only seem to get a chance to read late night and there are just an overabundance of competing factions. That said, I might have a bit of a crush on Khym. He's an excellent mate.
I really enjoyed the Chanur novels when they came out; I had a membership in the SF book club, so I got them inexpensively.
I've enjoyed some of the inexpensive e-books I've gotten from the Smart Bitches site (they got me hooked on Talia Hibbert - just finished "Get a Life Chloe Brown", K.J. Charles and a few others). One I finished recently was "Book of Love", which was a nice, quiet romance. No major conflict between the main characters. But it had two people who helped each other change their viewpoint (he'd been told he was stupid, but she kept telling him he wasn't; she'd always believed that she'd never be able to marry someone she actually liked, until she fell for him).
And I got a collection of absolutely bonkers fantasy/romance books - by RJ Blaine. They postulate a world in which magic had gone but came back and now everyone's having to deal with mythical creatures (pixies, whose wing dust gets people high, unicorns, centaurs of various species, lycanthropes of various species, people who can do magic, etc.). And the author seems to have made up a bunch as well. Bonkers, I tell you. Also a fair amount of boinking.
I enjoyed "Get a Life Chloe Brown." I think it was recommended to me on Goodreads for fans of Jasmine Guillory.
Sounds interesting. Maybe I'll add RJ Blaine to the "To Look Into" list.
Good for pretty mindless amusement.
I think that pops up on my "you might like" lists, good to have an opinion beyond that to rely on...
