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[bryant]

Announcement: C. E. Murphy Fans is now open for business. C. E. Murphy is a dear, dear friend of mine who has just broken into publishing in a fairly big way, with six books sold over the course of the last year or so. Her first book, Urban Shaman, just hit the shelves. I'm running her unofficial forums.

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[jeregenest.livejournal.com]

I'm going of the books on the Amzon "If you ike this" feature. But of the ones I see there they are Urban Fantasy mashed wth Sex in te City. There are plenty of woman writers in this ting called "urban fantasy" whether Lsia Goldstein, Megan Lindholm, in Kiki Hoffman, etc that don't seem to hae the vibe that this book (and others on the list) has.

Course this book might not fit into the groove of the others (and its cover) and I can easily be jumpig to onclusions. Whch s why I'm wlling to read it o your recommendation, cause I trust your opinion and all.

[bryant]

Oh, sure. The missing piece here is perhaps that Luna is a Harlequin imprint. Luna books are shelved with SF/fantasy in the bookstore, and (if I understand correctly) are in part an attempt to provide Harlequin with a new face in certain markets. But they've got authors like, say, Tanith Lee. So the marketing is a little interesting.

But yeah, it's not much like a Laurell Hamilton or a Kim Harrison. The vibe from the chapters I've read so far is closer to Megan Lindholm, de Lint, Emma Bull, etc.