I am feeling ill today — sympathy please — so this Top 10 will be brief to the point of brusqueness!
1) Do you like tattoos?
Lurv a la Mode is getting really tired of the tattoos all over book covers right now! Is this one of your pet peeves? Are there any other cover conventions that you find difficult to take?
2) In celebration of authors
A couple of Wednesdays ago I introduced you to the Author Fan Letter blog crawl that was occurring —
June 9th, 2010. Amanda Rutter (guest) | World Wide Wednesday | 9 comments |
Merlin’s Harp by Anne Eliot Crompton
Reading Merlin’s Harp, I realized something about novels that portray the interaction between the human world and Faerie. They usually don’t tell the stories of fae folk in their own homeland. There are exceptions, of course, but authors tend to focus on faeries stuck in the human world, or humans encountering Faerie. I think I may know why that is. When writing about faeries living in Faerie, it’s all too easy to have nothing happen.
Anne Eliot Crompton uses beautiful,
June 9th, 2010. Kelly Lasiter´s rating: 0.1 | Anne Eliot Crompton | Young Adult | SFF Reviews | no comments |
What a fascinating exploration of Edwige Fenech's contributions to the giallo genre! I love how the post highlights her unique…
Pretty challenging book. Cut by half, speed up the cadence. Trying to figure out the plot, the main point of…
Thanks for the kind words, Marion! Coming as they are from a professional writer, they are much appreciated!
Wonderful review, Sandy.
The "body count" bothered me a bit less because being dead seemed more like an inconvenience than anything else... unlike…