Sunday, October 30, 2011

Me, and book reviews

This weekend at World Fantasy Convention I was asked several times if I do book reviews. The short answer is that I don't. However, I did encounter a couple of people who were interested in getting my opinion about specific aspects of their books...and that I feel is within my purview. TalkToYoUniverse is all about language and culture and writing, and those of you who have been following me for a while know that I get pretty analytical sometimes. So if you're interested in having me look at your book and analyze a small piece of it to look at worldbuilding or point of view or cultural representations etc. I'm willing to consider it. It will be something of a different angle on the book than you'd see in a general review, and more congruent with my theme.

In this vein, then, I'm going to be doing a piece in the next week or two about a new book that's coming out called The Fallen Queen by Jane Kindred. Lucky me, I was given it in Advance Reader Copy by an agent at the convention, and it's a lot of fun! I'm also hoping to see another ARC from someone I met... this could be really cool and interesting.

4 comments:

  1. To my WFC-fried brain, this suggest you have joined the Official Pro Writers' Club.

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  2. Thanks, Deborah! I think it's a really exciting opportunity.

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  3. Are you still going to do any of the WIP pieces you used to do? Or are those gone forever?

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  4. Megs, thanks for asking. I've had a couple of new excerpts come in recently, and I don't think they're gone forever, in fact. But I'm still having trouble managing my time. I hope to get doing them again soon - let me see what I can do to get one or two in, maybe in the next few weeks.

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