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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.

Comments

[mgrasso.livejournal.com]

This book sounds like my bag, eh?

[jeregenest.livejournal.com]

Okay this is now officially a subgenre. Chick-lit Urban fantasy or something.

You'll have to lend it to me sometime Bryant.

[head58.livejournal.com]

Chick-lit Urban fantasy

I just call it "Mike stuff".

:)

[mgrasso.livejournal.com]

Bastard!

(he's right)

[mcurry.livejournal.com]

I think I knew this (about you anc "C.E." being friends), but had of course forgotten it 'til I read this post. I still find it way too small world that you'd end up attending a gaming con run by her agent, arcaedia.

And I need to actually buy a copy of this book.

One must always acknowledge an excellent burn.

[robotnik.livejournal.com]

Bwa ha.

[head58.livejournal.com]

Thank you, Shalafi...

[arcaedia.livejournal.com]

Yes.... you actually need to buy a copy of this book. Soon would be good. The same goes for the rest of you. *g*

[bryant]

Yep. And she's an awesome writer.

[bryant]

Will do. I'm not gonna promise you'll like it, although I do, but I'll be happy to loan it out.

[bryant]

Isn't that just weird? Small, small world.

[tayefeth.livejournal.com]

I will! I promise!:-)

[kniedzw.livejournal.com]

I'll have to have bneuensc read it for me. She seems to be plowing through literature much faster than me these days.

[ambar.livejournal.com]

The face-out storm at the local (SF Bay Area) B&Ns has begun.

[bryant]

And after you do that -- read and post. Strong online community can be a huge win; it's nice when someone Googles the author and finds a lot of people actively enjoying his or her work. Link to the site. Post on the site. Make the site happy. :)

[bryant]

I love the stuff, but I would argue that even when De Lint or Brust is writing it, it's not exactly Hemingway in its machoness.

[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.