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What do you wish would be done MORE in urban fantasy?
ballplayer72:
--- Quote from: Qualapec on November 24, 2007, 09:20:52 AM ---You may be interested in Nightlife by Rob Thurman. It fits all those qualities...kind of.
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I second that nightlife is good. It is in fact great, and i highly recommend it.
meg_evonne:
So we have series and trilogies and stand alones. What do you call a duo of books? I've a set in the hopper. the first book is 1st person, but the 2nd is more complex, which is why I haven't combined them. The second will either be from two other points of view or I'll have to figure out one heck of a way to get two crucial major scenes already written and at least one more to go into that 2nd voice. And worse yet, the first ends in a Burroughs style. Sometimes stories take their own route. the first book is 90,000....the second is half done, sitting abot 45,000. I'm forcing myself to leave the 2nd alone until I've perfected (as well as I can)...
I might be able to swing the two other voices into one with a unique writing gimmack, but no way can I get these two other POVs into the orginal voice for covering both books as a stand alone.
The thing is, I have no interest in writing any more after these two. Others are possible, but not by me. i'll be ready to move on. I wrote them in scifi so i could engage readers into action on Darfur.
Any suggestions, greatly appeciated!
redneckwitch18:
I like stuff that is more like Anne Rice's old works yet in a modern sense. Hence, I am addicted to David Wellington's online published books.
http://www.brokentype.com/ Thirteen Bullets, Monster Island, etc.
Kali:
--- Quote from: meg_evonne on November 25, 2007, 02:49:36 AM ---So we have series and trilogies and stand alones. What do you call a duo of books?
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A duology, I believe. At least, that's what Mercedes Lackey used to call her Tarma & Kethry books. Y'know, before she finally published a third a decade-plus after the first two.
--- Quote ---The thing is, I have no interest in writing any more after these two. Others are possible, but not by me. i'll be ready to move on. I wrote them in scifi so i could engage readers into action on Darfur.
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I don't think you need to write more. Let the publisher tell you that. Also, and this is just me, I wouldn't mention ANYWHERE that your book is in any way connected to Darfur. Not that people don't need to know more about the genocide and the god-awful conditions, but if you have to mention it in a cover letter, it looks pretentious and preachy. Let the editor/agent/publisher discover the connection for themselves, let them ask you about it. Done properly, I always think such things should be as subversive as possible, teaching without anyone ever realizing they're being taught.
meg_evonne:
Thanks Kali!
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