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Author Craft / Re: Author In Progress
« on: October 18, 2006, 03:21:57 AM »
My name is Clifford, yeah make with the dog jokes, and I have been attempting to write since I was in seventh grade. Currently, I am working three ideas, and they are just that ideas.

The first one deals with a world where many of the creatures of myth are real, but they hide themselves amoungst humanity, original, I know. The main characters are a husband and wife team who enforce the laws of this hidden society. He is a wizard and she is a Naga, the mythical creature, not the tribe from Southern India.

The second one deals with a small Midwestern town, and a large house that sets on the outskirts. The house and and the land it sits upon exist on more then one world, and if you walk through the woods on the property, you might also find yourself traveling in backwards or forwards in time.

The third one grew out fo the fact that I have never come across a ganster novel mixed with magic. This one takes place on a parallel earth that just happens to be much larger the our own. The main character is really a place, its a neighborhood in a large city, and a nightclub run by a group of people who are not what they play at being.

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Author Craft / Re: Readers--what would you like to see?
« on: October 18, 2006, 02:59:50 AM »
Oh hey, meant to ask this since we're talking about alternate genres.  Has anyone heard of any books that are mysteries set in a high fantasy world?  And I don't mean like about a wily assassin or mercenary.  Maybe like someone who freelances like Harry or is part of some law enforcement equivalent (royal guard?) and continually finds themselves unraveling small, intricate things that aren't necessarily about some great evil overlord overtaking the kingdom?

Not sure if I'm explaining this right.  It makes sense in my head. :)

There was a series written a few years ago about an investigator, in a high fantasy setting, who had the help of a miniture dragon. The name of one of the books is Beggar's Banquet.

I'd like to see a series of novels about a husband and wife team, ala The Thin Man, who handle supernatural mysteries. The closest was the DC published comic, Midnight, Mass.

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I don't think that the printed word will ever go out of style, I just think that someday, you'll go to the bookstore, and they will print off a book for you when you buy it. Or you'll do it at home, on your computer, with a few use disc, or other computer medium that you buy at the store.

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Author Craft / Re: Vampire Use In Contemporary Fantasy
« on: October 15, 2006, 05:00:56 PM »
What gets me is why most authors don't let their vampires eat regular food, or if they do, they go and vomit it up sometime later. You would think, with the amount of energy that it would take for their strength, speed, and other powers that they would need to eat to have high energy reserves. Also, from what I've read, the whole sunlight thing didn't make it into the mythos until F.W. Murnow(sp?) made Nosferatu.

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Author Craft / Re: Hark! (Characters)
« on: October 15, 2006, 04:44:29 PM »
Mine usually come from dreams.

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