Seis de mayo

[rolanni]

So, the text of the talk I delivered at Ravencon is online, for your viewing pleasure.  Here's your link.

Steve is shortly on his way to Portland to partake of the secret delights offered by the Maine State Democratic Convention; I will join him there tomorrow to do my duty as a delegate for Bernie Sanders.  Today, with luck and tailwind, I will finish the first draft of the story that's due on May 15.

In the meantime, I am soliciting recommendations for novels that are. . .light-hearted. They don't have to be comedies, but they do have to be. . .soothing and generally uplifting -- along the lines of The Goblin King, or Uprooted.  I foresee finishing Karen Memory (which I'm enjoying very much) this weekend, and the books remaining on my TBR pile lean somewhat toward the Grim and Improving, which is not what I need to read right now.

And, now?  I am turning the internet off, in order to get with the as-yet nameless short story.

Everybody have a fun-filled Friday, 'k?

Comments

[countrygirlxxoo.livejournal.com]

If you aren't adverse to a gay romantic fantasy, T.J. Klune's The Lightning-Struck Heart is so very excellent. It took me several days longer than usual to read it because I had to stop after every 3 or 4 chapters because I had given myself a headache from laughing so hard. He has also written some hilarious contemporary gay romances Tell Me It's Real, The Queen and the Homo Jock King, and How To Be A Normal Person. I love everything he's written, and let me tell you that he can wring your emotions from the very low to the very high (his Bear, Otter, and The Kid series). He's also written serious fantasy/scifi works (Into This River I Drown, Withered + Sere, and Burn). He publishes through Dreamspinner Press, but his stuff is on Amazon and other retailers as well. He also has a blog, and he's put up several free stories that expand on several of his works so you can get an idea if you like his writing. http://tjklunebooks.blogspot.com/?zx=8c0ecbfa86f29819

Amy Lane is another excellent writer. She has written the gamut from scifi, fantasy, contemporary, gay, heterosexual, rock stars, athletes, historical superheroes (a Batman type), fairy tales, vampires-werewolves-elves-angels-psy talented oh my (all in one series), light-hearted, grim...she does everything well. She is also at Dreamspinner and Amazon. Here's her blog: http://writerslane.blogspot.com/