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Book Log #40: Jaguar Night, by Doranna Durgin
The first of her Sentinels series of paranormal romances, Jaguar Night is basically Doranna Durgin Does Shapeshifters. The worldbuilding is a bit thin for my tastes: you’ve got the Sentinels vs. the Atrum Core, who are two warring factions theoretically descended from a pair of half-brothers in ancient Britain, one a Druid and the other…
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Meanwhile back on my still untitled story
My Psychic Chick story is still germinating in my brain, and tonight its heroine, Elizabeth ‘Ealasaid’ Breckenridge, who hides actual psychic talent behind a seemingly sham psychic-and-Tarot business, demanded I give her more words. So I gave her 547 of them, enough to move her first scene far enough along that she has now discovered…
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Lost finale reaction post
Our Tivo failed in its final attempt to stab at us from Hell’s heart, despite its best efforts on Sunday evening; purchased what we missed off of iTunes, and we were therefore able to watch the Lost finale last night! My picoreview: um, wut? (Needless to say, spoilers behind the fold. DO NOT LOOK if…
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Maynowrimo status check
Shadow of the Rook grabbed me by the throat sometime last night and said “Okay, you? You’re writing about Faanshi today.” So I did a couple hundred words last night, and several hundred more across the rest of today and tonight, particularly after surprise Tivo death meant my household didn’t get to watch the series…
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No Lost finale for me
We just found out tonight, while gearing up to watch the Lost retrospective and finale, that our Tivo took a harder hit during the power outage earlier this week than we thought. We got partway into the retrospective, the bit focusing on Hurley, when the screen abruptly froze up and pixelized. Then the Tivo made…
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Bone Walker checkpoint
Ladies and gentlemen, Bone Walker just broke 30K on the word count! Chapter 10 is done, and features the worldview of a young Warder and an old Warder getting rattled all to hell. However, this ain’t going to stop Christopher or Millie or least of all Kendis from doing what needs to get done. Before…
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Weekend book roundup
Fictionwise apparently can still get my attention if they have a big enough sale. They have a 40% off thing going on since it’s their anniversary now, and this weekend in particular they’ve also got a 5% off thing going on. So I grabbed ebook versions of Hal Duncan’s Vellum and Ink, as well as…
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Bone Walker, Coyotecon, and Maynowrimo continue!
This past weekend I sat in as sort of unofficial moderator at two different Coyotecon panels, “Writing Mental Illness” and “Young Adult Speculative Fiction”. That was fun all around, and gave me a chance to interact with a few folks I hadn’t before. Those transcripts aren’t up yet, but if you go over here, you…
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Book Log #39: A Feral Darkness, by Doranna Durgin
A Feral Darkness is hands down my favorite of Doranna Durgin’s books. There are a lot of elements to it that might file it into the paranormal romance or urban fantasy genres, though for my money, I would still call it a straightforward fantasy. Romance it’s got, to be sure, but quieter and sweeter than…
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Book Log #38: The Reckoners, by Doranna Durgin
I’ve always loved Doranna Durgin’s work, although I miss her earlier fantasy novels. Her latest paranormal romance, The Reckoners, hearkens back a bit to those even as it’s squarely targeted at the paranormal romance crowd. The book starts off a bit shakily, introducing us to Lisa “Garrie” McGarrity and her team of ghost hunters, who…
