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Sarah/Katherine ([personal profile] truepenny) wrote2010-10-24 09:21 am

5 fiction-related things

Four of them are the novels I have successfully read in the last week:

1.) [livejournal.com profile] matociquala, Range of Ghosts (in draft): Rocked my socks.

2.) [livejournal.com profile] maryrobinette, Shades of Milk and Honey: you probably need to like Jane Austen, or Austenesque novels, to fully appreciate this one, but the magic system is just awesomely clever. It dovetails seamlessly into the social history in a way that reminds me of [livejournal.com profile] papersky's Tooth and Claw (no, there are no dragons).

3.) [livejournal.com profile] cmpriest, Boneshaker and (4.) [livejournal.com profile] cmpriest, Dreadnought: I love her crazy alternate America with zombies and dirigibles and all the rest of it. And three cheers for competent women as protagonists!

5.) This week I have also given to someone else to read complete drafts of (a.) the windship story that still doesn't have a title, (b.) "The Devil in Gaylord's Creek," and (c.) "Hollywood and Vine," along with sending out "Impostors" (Embarrassingly, with the title misspelled because I've only just now figured out it's -or rather than -er. Damn you, English language!), "Hôtel Image", and "Coyote Gets His Own back." Next up would seem to be "(Un)fallen." I have no idea how to fix it, but maybe rereading it will help.

It's a theory.

[identity profile] cmpriest.livejournal.com 2010-10-24 05:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Yay! Thank you so much - I'm glad you enjoyed them :)
[:: does a little dance ::]

[identity profile] truepenny.livejournal.com 2010-10-25 03:06 am (UTC)(link)
Why does English not have a word that means both "thank you" and "you're welcome"? Because the appropriate answer here is both. I had a really good time with both books.

[identity profile] maryrobinette.livejournal.com 2010-10-25 05:32 am (UTC)(link)
Hurrah! Thank you for the kind words.

[identity profile] truepenny.livejournal.com 2010-10-25 06:09 pm (UTC)(link)
V. welcome!