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Richelle Mead's Work! (Board Member goes pro)
Matrix Refugee (formerly Morraeon):
Finished reading Succubus Dreams: I like where this is going, even though one part in particular broke my heart, but I admire Richelle for not sparing her characters the hard knocks that life often throws at you. It's a sign of being a good writer if you let your heroes get hurt.
I've got a love-hate thing for Dante: he's anNOYing, but he somehow reminds me of an odd cross between Harry Dresden and John Constantine.
Funny story about Shadow Kiss and trying to get a copy: I normally buy my books at the Borders in Burlington, since I'm on the Borders Rewards program -- nothing beats finding a way to get your book-buying addiction to pay for itself once in a while. So I'd gone there to get it, only to find they'd already sold it out! I think I may be to blame for this, since every time I am in there (or in any bookstore, for that matter), I routinely put copies of the Vampire Academy books in front of the darn Twilight books -- they're usually right next to each other anyway -- in an effort to spread the word on a much better-written teen vampire series. I finally did manage to score a copy at the Barnes & Noble in Downtown Lowell, and am now reading it...
meg_evonne:
Congrats to Richelle! I just read my new subscription to Publisher's whatever.. and they reported that Richelle's got books off to Korea! So the Vampire Academy (which I still have not read) spreads across the world. Congrats!
THETA:
Jerome's my favorite character ever. I'm looking forward to see what all the hullabaloo is about with him in the next novel.
meg_evonne:
More congrats to Richelle. This was in my e-mail this morning from Publisher's Marketplace:
"NYT bestselling author Richelle Mead's next two novels in the Eugenie Markham/Dark Swan Urban Fantasy series, to John Scognamiglio at Kensington, by Jim McCarthy at Dystel & Goderich Literary Management."
Good news for Richelle and for Kensington!
Matrix Refugee (formerly Morraeon):
Just finished "Storm Born", the first of the Dark Swan series (and I am so gonna be dragging myself at work tomorrow, since I stayed up this late to finish it), and I have to say, *THIS* is how Laurell K. Hamiliton's Merry Gentry series should have been done! It's got all the elements (heir to a faery king who's obliged to produce an heir, magical power-ups), but with 90 percent less pr0n (not to say that the love scenes aren't hot-hot-*HOT*, they just don't take up 90 percent of the book).
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