Random person whose book I read and had to go "Is this person a fic writer whose name I would recognize? Hmmmmm???" Jes Battis Good books, if you like magical CSI type things that also have queer people in them, and are set in Canada. Totally hit several of my fave things, there. But it just amused the heck out of me, in several scenes, when the characters are talking, and sounded more like buffistas than characters in a book, if you know what I mean. Like, when they're being all "hey, the scooby gang is here!" and I'm thinking "Ack, this is almost a little too meta for me..."
I'm supposed to deliver you to the Master now. There's this whole deal where I get to be immortal. Are you cool with that?
Xander ,'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."
meara - Jul 31, 2009 9:46:04 am PDT #9738 of 28388
Atropa - Jul 31, 2009 9:56:59 am PDT #9739 of 28388
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
And Laurell K. Hamilton when asked her thoughts on the Twilight phenomenon: "Stephenie Meyer as come and she's taken the genre that I sort of pioneered."
I ...
But ..
If you'll excuse me, I have to go collapse and try to keep my head from exploding in fury and WTF-ness.
Amy - Jul 31, 2009 10:00:27 am PDT #9740 of 28388
Because books.
Yeah, I'm not the biggest vampire genre reader out there, but even I know Laurel Hamilton in NO WAY pioneered it.
Atropa - Jul 31, 2009 10:02:45 am PDT #9741 of 28388
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Carmilla! Dracula! Varny the Vampyre! Gahhhh!
Barb - Jul 31, 2009 10:03:19 am PDT #9742 of 28388
“Not dead yet!”
If you'll excuse me, I have to go collapse and try to keep my head from exploding in fury and WTF-ness.
And again, I repeat, Laurell and reality really don't have a good relationship. She lives in her own little bubble of happiness...
Calli - Jul 31, 2009 10:10:40 am PDT #9743 of 28388
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Hmm. Evidently Jes Battis wrote a book on chosen families in Buffy and Angel.
StuntHusband - Jul 31, 2009 10:11:02 am PDT #9744 of 28388
Electromagnetic candy! - Stark
Carmilla! Dracula! Varny the Vampyre! Gahhhh!
And that's just the 19th century.
Saberhagen predates Rice, who predates Hamilton.
Barb - Jul 31, 2009 10:17:13 am PDT #9745 of 28388
“Not dead yet!”
In trying to be fair, much as it pains me, I wonder if Laurell wasn't referring to the vampire romance subgenre-- which, even there, she DID NOT PIONEER IT, but still, I wonder if that's what she was referring to.
Calli - Jul 31, 2009 10:21:07 am PDT #9746 of 28388
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Maybe she was referring to vampire romance. I think Chelsea Quinn Yarboro's St. Germaine series was an earlier version of that subgenre.
Hmmm. I really enjoyed those books. Maybe I should try rereading one or two, and see if they've held up over the years.
Connie Neil - Jul 31, 2009 10:22:45 am PDT #9747 of 28388
brillig
Maybe I should try rereading one or two, and see if they've held up over the years
I got rid of my copies, but that was because I lost my taste for the vile humans and the nasty things they did.