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Are Readers Growing Tired of New Urban Fantasy?
Snowleopard:
Patricia Briggs has several series.
The werewolf one is the Alpha and Omega series and both leads are werewolves and is more romantically
oriented than the Mercy Thompson series. I like the way she handles her werewolf heirarchy.
She also did the Hurog series which I like a great deal and at least one if not two other series that
I'm forgetting at the moment.
As for Harlan - he's an amazing writer but his stuff is so negative that I usually avoid it.
And he can be VERY cranky about things. Conversely I answered the phone one day at a SciFi bookstore I
used to frequent and got this familiar voice saying what a mellifluous voice I had. He does have a way with words.
Starbeam:
--- Quote from: LDWriter2 on June 15, 2012, 04:43:09 AM ---With Briggs Mercy books I am just going along with the blurb on the back. That's not always the best way to know a book but all of the books in that series have had the same type of blurbs. I should say that I almost read them, close enough that I still keep up with the series.
Funny thing is I don't recall ever seeing her werewolf series...I assume it's the Alpha one someone mentioned. I found out about while chatting with another writer on that writers blog. That writer has a e-book out about shifters. Maybe two. If you can read e-books it would be a great one to read. I think she has out a full novel and a short story. It is romantically influenced. :) And I think only one is a wolf but I'm not completely sure, neither might be a wolf.
And the movie I'm referring to is "The Sorcerer's Apprentice". I know a take off from the Micky Mouse one but there's a whole lot more to this movie than that scene. In fact at the beginning of the trailers I almost thought the wizard was Harry. In certain scenes he almost seems modeled after Harry.
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Alpha and Omega are about werewolves, and so are the Mercy books. Although the biggest difference is that Mercy's not a werewolf, and she deals with other types of supernatural creatures. From a couple interviews I've read, it sounds like the two series are going to start running concurrently and reference each other more. She's also writing only one book a year now, switching between the two, because she was having trouble keeping up the pace with putting out two a year. Or something like that-I forget the specifics, and I think she'd mentioned that at a con about two years ago.
Aso, the Sorcerer's Apprentice thing--there was a huge amount of discussion and whatnot around the forum because of the similarities to DF, and all. And Jim even posted a bunch of side by side pictures on twitter at one point. Something else that gets noted with that a lot--Nic Cage was exec producer for the DF tv series.
And Dylan Dog--the craft was showing. I wasn't even trying to watch the movie critically, but I could see a lot of the writing pretty blatantly. Though no examples spring to mind at the moment.
LDWriter2:
--- Quote from: OZ on June 15, 2012, 05:16:09 AM ---I saw both The Sorceror's Apprentice and Dylan Dog. I thought there was at least one other UF movie last year but I may be remembering something from a previous year. This happens more and more as I grow older. I didn't think either of the two previously mentioned movies were fantastic but I enjoyed them both. I probably liked TSA better than DD. I thought it was a lot of fun.
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Hmm, three maybe four people have mentioned Dylan Dog but I don't recall it. I'm going to have to look it up. Either I completely missed it or dismissed it because I didn't understand it was UF.
LDWriter2:
--- Quote from: Starbeam on June 15, 2012, 05:08:29 PM ---Alpha and Omega are about werewolves, and so are the Mercy books. Although the biggest difference is that Mercy's not a werewolf, and she deals with other types of supernatural creatures. From a couple interviews I've read, it sounds like the two series are going to start running concurrently and reference each other more. She's also writing only one book a year now, switching between the two, because she was having trouble keeping up the pace with putting out two a year. Or something like that-I forget the specifics, and I think she'd mentioned that at a con about two years ago.
Aso, the Sorcerer's Apprentice thing--there was a huge amount of discussion and whatnot around the forum because of the similarities to DF, and all. And Jim even posted a bunch of side by side pictures on twitter at one point. Something else that gets noted with that a lot--Nic Cage was exec producer for the DF tv series.
And Dylan Dog--the craft was showing. I wasn't even trying to watch the movie critically, but I could see a lot of the writing pretty blatantly. Though no examples spring to mind at the moment.
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As I understood it the shifters in the Mercy books turned into other things like lions. I think I recall a lion on the cover of one. Of course cover artists do get confused at times.
But I don't recall Briggs having that many real series. There is her Raven series but that is three maybe four books. Her Dragon Bones one and its sequel--or is Bones the second one-- and her first published book and its newer sequel. Too bad she can't do more than one book a year. Is she still working? Or is she slow at writing? Some writers are.
Starbeam:
--- Quote from: LDWriter2 on June 16, 2012, 03:14:32 AM ---
As I understood it the shifters in the Mercy books turned into other things like lions. I think I recall a lion on the cover of one. Of course cover artists do get confused at times.
But I don't recall Briggs having that many real series. There is her Raven series but that is three maybe four books. Her Dragon Bones one and its sequel--or is Bones the second one-- and her first published book and its newer sequel. Too bad she can't do more than one book a year. Is she still working? Or is she slow at writing? Some writers are.
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All the Mercy covers have only Mercy, and I don't recall any shifters other than wolves. Only books I recall that had a lion on any of the covers are the Magic books by Ilona Andrews. Or maybe the Kitty books. I know those two have different types of shifters. And for the most part Patricia's longest series are the Mercy and A&O series--she's said in an interview, or at a con, that she tends to get on a writing kick that lasts quite a while, and so far that writing kick is centered on UF/PNR, but at some point she's likely to revisit the Dragon Bones/Blood world. I forget the exact reason why she switched to alternating books-not so much that she writes slow, because for a while she was putting out two a year, as well as some shorts in anthologies-but I think it was just very tiring. I couldn't find anything in the search I just did. Also, I know this past year or so her writing was also very affected by the renovations she and her husband were doing on their house. I think her husband wrote, at some point, on her website that she got stuck for a while because of all the stress from the situation. I believe she said that's why Fair Game's release got pushed back a few weeks. That one I think she said at NYCC. And thinking of that, that might've been where I heard some of this stuff. It starts to get difficult trying to remember where I heard/read anything.
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