Paging the Queen of Air and Darkness

[rolanni]

Majesty, if you must send your minions, the brown bats, to wander the halls of history in your name, please remind them to be gone before daylight finds them out.  It really isn’t safe for even a very small and discreet brown bat to nap in the corner of the ceiling over the seminar room.  People do look up, and not everyone is as fond of bats as you — or I.

Progress on The Book Presently Known as George:
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“By the starry garters of the night. . .Riva.” Silain looked into the depths of her mug, like the tea was a window and beyond it she watched the story unfold.

Originally published at Sharon Lee, Writer. You can comment here or there.

Comments

Novels

[claire774.livejournal.com]

I finished Duainfey and am now reading Longeye. I liked Duainfey very much but I see the public, according to the number of stars on Amazon, had a bit of a problem with it. It was so fascinating and well so written. BUT one really has to continue with Longeye. One review on Amazon complained that there was no proper ending to Duainfey. Duh. Also it's not really appropriate for the young adult audience ....which reads, I think, a lot of Fantasy. Fantasy, traditionally, if I might give an opinion, is a genre which is read by a lot of the young adult type readers, maybe even a majority of young adult readers. Duainfey, being rather x rated, in my opinion, which is fine with me, might have been a bit shocking to the reader expecting the usual PG 13 book which most of your novels are. I noticed that Carousel Tides is strictly PG which is a wiser choice in my opinion for the fantasy novel. This genre is so popular with the kids that I don't need to say that many of those novels have been made into movies. I think one doesn't have to follow that format quite as much perhaps in Sci Fi. Although in my experince sci fi is a lot PG or PG 13. The target audience seems to have accepted Mouse and Dragon for example. Maybe sci fi/romance type audience. I've read more sci fi than fantasy in my time. Starting with Tolkien, through CS Lewis and so on. All PG rated. I haven't read much in the stictly harlequin/romance genre at all. That's a totally different audience I would imagine.

I've started Longeye. I am actually suffering from lack of sleep because one picked up Duainfey and Longeye are extremely difficult to put down. Yawn.

Thanks for all the snippets from George. Also good luck with the Hugo award.
C.

Re: Novels

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

YAs nowadays have some surprising stuff in them. I wouldn't call Duainfey x-rated myself, though certainly not YA. I think of the Fey books as going back to the dark-and-scary idea of faerie, before Walt Disney made the Unknown safe and cuddly, and vampires acquired sparkles.

I've run into the opinion that, because I write science fiction, I must be writing children's books. Obviously not true -- and the same for fantasy. Not all sf/f books are suitable for younger readers; not all sf/f books are written for younger readers. The Lord of the Rings sequence was not written for children; it was written for adults. And while it's sex-free, sex isn't the only thing that makes some books not YA. Nazgul, anyone?