Perusing our morning emails and blogs, we noticed this particular article posted over at Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist. The article is an opinion piece by Urban Fantasy author Lilith Saintcrow, of Dante Valentine fame, on the definition of Urban Fantasy,…
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A recent article entitled “Does an Author Have To Live It to Write It” over at Dear Author prompted a firestorm of impassioned responses–and elicited a strong reaction from us powerpuff girls as well. So, we decided to pool…
Current location: Cambridge, UK The Windflower and King’s College The Windflower is one of those mythical romance novels that many speak of, that more often than not appears in top 100 listings and it has been granted DIK (Desert…
Today is the release date for the new Julia Quinn book, The Lost Duke of Wyndham. I know I sound like a broken record given that I keep writing about this book and you may be wondering why am…
Reading SciFi Chick’s recent list “13 Unfortunate X-Men Costumes”, got me to thinking. While some superheroes have blundered into some lamentable costume phases, how about those poor heroes that are just totally miscast or misrepresented in movie adaptations? Considering…
In the frantic course of messaging each other after reading numerous books, we have discovered that we fall on opposite ends of the spectrum when it comes to “siding” with characters. While I almost always sympathize with the heroine…
I am an emotional reader. I love to read. Which probably sounds like the most obvious thing in the world since I share a blog about book reviews but really, I LOVE to read.I love the act of reading.…
