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Are Readers Growing Tired of New Urban Fantasy?
Zuriel:
--- Quote from: The Deposed King on May 29, 2012, 08:24:04 PM ---Female versus male writers do have different strength and weaknesses. But IMO I don't think its as noticable in UF a say military Sci-Fi. At least it isn't, so long as the book isn't a paranormal romance in disguise!
Regardless Ilona Andrews is a husband/wife writing team. So they can nail the male/female character differences better and the Kate Daniels Series is definitely UF.
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As long as the book is good and doesn't turn into fluff land, I really don't care who writes it, but I will be wary of disguises.
Thank you! I shall amend my thinking and give the ladies a chance. :)
cenwolfgirl:
oh so glade you said that or i might have had to glear at you :P ;)
LDWriter2:
--- Quote from: Zuriel on May 29, 2012, 04:22:15 AM ---LDWriter2: Thanks! This is great! I've seen a few of the names before, but don't know anything about them. I guess you can check out my list and I'll check out yours. I notice your list is mostly women, where mine is all men. I think I have this misconception that female writers are more into the UF/romance thing. Guess that may not be quite accurate.
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First: Yeah, my favorites do seem to be female writers with two big exceptions as listed, well Jim is one of those two. But there are two other men who are close to my favorites. One is Mark del Franco who has two series both of which take place in the same universe. Unlike Gilman they are not in the same city and I'm not sure if they are in the same time either.
The other guy I'm going to have to look up he has a complicated name.
Second: Some men do some romance, Jim as a touch of romance. But then again a lot of the new UF is heavy romance type, I usually reject them though.
Enchantedwater:
--- Quote from: Zuriel on May 30, 2012, 12:49:26 AM ---As long as the book is good and doesn't turn into fluff land, I really don't care who writes it, but I will be wary of disguises.
Thank you! I shall amend my thinking and give the ladies a chance. :)
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Me no likey the fluff land. Romance is awesome. But I need my action and suspense that has nothing to do with sexual tension.
Zuriel:
--- Quote from: LDWriter2 on May 31, 2012, 03:04:11 AM ---
First: Yeah, my favorites do seem to be female writers with two big exceptions as listed, well Jim is one of those two. But there are two other men who are close to my favorites. One is Mark del Franco who has two series both of which take place in the same universe. Unlike Gilman they are not in the same city and I'm not sure if they are in the same time either.
The other guy I'm going to have to look up he has a complicated name.
Second: Some men do some romance, Jim as a touch of romance. But then again a lot of the new UF is heavy romance type, I usually reject them though.
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Added del Franco to my list now. Thanks. Recently I've been looking up UF on Amazon, reading the reviews and weeding out the young adult and romance stuff...but I wonder why many of these names have never popped up? Probably because there are too many pages for me to sift through and there is no way to separate the hard-core romance from the rest. Hmm...is there a better source for UF research, other than here?
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