peadarog ([info]peadarog) wrote,
2012-02-27 16:27:00
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Guest Post: A Fantasy Reader's Demands

Guest Post

While I am neither a heroine, nor anybody's fantasy, I have a guest post up this month at Heroines of Fantasy, called, A Fantasy Reader's Demands. Read it or need it. You have been warned.

In the Mail

As many of you are already aware, my second book, The Deserter, already available on this side of the Atlantic, will be making its North American début on March 13. I received two lovely hardback copies of the US edition the other day. I am very pleased :)

Reading

Remember that wonderful run of great books I was having last month? That ship went into sudden reverse with three leaky ducks* in a row. Luckily, I have been rescued by Margo Lanagan's latest The Brides of Rollrock Island. I love her work. I am especially fond/fearful of the way she twists my little brain into shapes that nature never intended.

The blurb is here:

Rollrock island is a lonely rock of gulls and waves, blunt fishermen and their homely wives. Life is hard for the families who must wring a poor living from the stormy seas. But Rollrock is also a place of magic - the scary, salty-real sort of magic that changes lives forever. Down on the windswept beach, where the seals lie in herds, the outcast sea witch Misskaella casts her spells - and brings forth girls from the sea - girls with long, pale limbs and faces of haunting innocence and loveliness - the most enchantingly lovely girls the fishermen of Rollrock have ever seen.But magic always has its price. A fisherman may have and hold a sea bride, and tell himself that he is her master. But from his first look into those wide, questioning, liquid eyes, he will be just as transformed as she is. He will be equally ensnared. And in the end the witch will always have her payment.Margo Lanagan has written an extraordinary tale of desire, despair and transformation. In devastatingly beautiful prose, she reveals unforgettable characters capable of unspeakable cruelty - and deep unspoken love. After reading about the Rollrock fishermen and their sea brides, the world will not seem the same.




Watching

Still enjoying Luck, Friday Night Lights and a few other shows. We have also begun a rewatch of series one of Game of Thrones in time for the second series. Great stuff. Seriously, if you live over here, Sky Atlantic is the best channel ever.

More soon.





*According to my personal taste.
Tags: reading, tv, writing

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[info]misunderstruck

February 27 2012, 17:55:29 UTC 2 months ago

Yay for your book finally showing up over here! On the same day as the newest Powers book, no less.

Boo for Lanagan's new novel not coming out here until September! I do love her work as well.

[info]peadarog

February 27 2012, 17:57:13 UTC 2 months ago

That Powers fellah better watch out -- he hasn't got a hope. As for ML, yeah :)

[info]bogwitch64

February 27 2012, 17:57:56 UTC 2 months ago

March 13th?? Amazon says the 12th. Doesn't matter to me. I already have my copy! Now I just have to READ it. grumblegrumblebookclub/manuscriptsgrumblegrumble.

Sigh...someday, my reading time will once again be my own.

[info]peadarog

February 27 2012, 18:04:07 UTC 2 months ago

It's the hard life of an editor for you, I'm afraid :)

[info]irishkate

February 27 2012, 19:56:54 UTC 2 months ago

Not to contradict you or anything but ::sigh:: "He's so dreamy"

[info]peadarog

February 27 2012, 20:00:03 UTC 2 months ago

Ha, ha. I forgot the truth there for a minute :-)

[info]athgarvan

February 27 2012, 20:29:03 UTC 2 months ago

D'fhéach mé isteach ar an bpost seo ach níor thuig mé mórán de - sean aois!

[info]peadarog

February 27 2012, 20:45:48 UTC 2 months ago

Bhuel, go raibh maith agat as feiceáil isteach, ar aon nós :D

Beir bua!

[info]williamjm

February 27 2012, 22:40:26 UTC 2 months ago

"Seriously, if you live over here, Sky Atlantic is the best channel ever."

I might agree if it was possible for me to actually watch it on TV, but since I'm not allowed to put up a satellite dish I can't. It's a pity, since they do have an impressive line-up of shows.

[info]peadarog

February 27 2012, 22:52:13 UTC 2 months ago

I'm sorry for your troubles. You're really missing out :(

[info]bondo_ba

February 28 2012, 12:06:38 UTC 2 months ago

You've been my heroine for quite a while. I'll read this when I get back from work...

[info]peadarog

February 28 2012, 12:18:40 UTC 2 months ago

Why, that's so sweet. I'll grow my hair long and hang it out a window...

[info]mollydot

February 28 2012, 19:12:41 UTC 2 months ago

There's a difference in how I remember fantasy & science fiction. And in what I read them for. Fantasy, I want good world building and a good story. SF, I want ideas. There's so many SF books I've read, but couldn't tell you what happens. And often I can't tell you the ideas I got out of it either, but they'll be in my head, just not attached to a book name. Annoying when I try talking about books!

[info]peadarog

February 28 2012, 19:13:51 UTC 2 months ago

But I like good ideas in fantasy too, I just do :)

[info]mollydot

February 28 2012, 21:55:20 UTC 2 months ago

I've no objection to good ideas in fantasy :-) But I think the worldbuilding is the main draw for me.
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