Anyway, I'd like to friend you if that's OK with you.
I'm happy to have you friend me -- as per in info page, I consider this a public page, and won't be offended if anyone else who is lurking adds me to their friends list <g>.
Uh-oh. Now that you mentioned Luna, I'm one of the skeptics about that line. The author lineup is impressive though, and I liked the summaries for the stories that have been published so far.
Just so we're clear: I don't have any investment in Luna other than my novels; I'm responsible for my content <wry g>. Each Luna novel so far has been very different in tone and feel. STAYING DEAD hasn't got a lot of romance in it, although there's relationship tension (it's also the first contemporary fantasy); there is no romance in my first Luna novel. There's much more prominent romance in the Zettel, which is also an Arthurian (and you might want to point out to someone in your thread that there's a difference between Sara Douglass and Sarah Zettel, since they don't seem to have noticed the difference). Judging them book by book is probably wiser.
Romance in fantasy I can stand. purple prose in fantasy, though, is a different matter. And the honest truth is that even the hardcore romance readers laugh at how extremely purple some passges in romance novels become.
I don't like bad writing in anything. Bad writing is often a matter of convention, but not always.
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Date: 2004-08-19 06:12 pm (UTC)I'm happy to have you friend me -- as per in info page, I consider this a public page, and won't be offended if anyone else who is lurking adds me to their friends list <g>.
Uh-oh. Now that you mentioned Luna, I'm one of the skeptics about that line. The author lineup is impressive though, and I liked the summaries for the stories that have been published so far.
Just so we're clear: I don't have any investment in Luna other than my novels; I'm responsible for my content <wry g>. Each Luna novel so far has been very different in tone and feel. STAYING DEAD hasn't got a lot of romance in it, although there's relationship tension (it's also the first contemporary fantasy); there is no romance in my first Luna novel. There's much more prominent romance in the Zettel, which is also an Arthurian (and you might want to point out to someone in your thread that there's a difference between Sara Douglass and Sarah Zettel, since they don't seem to have noticed the difference). Judging them book by book is probably wiser.
Romance in fantasy I can stand. purple prose in fantasy, though, is a different matter. And the honest truth is that even the hardcore romance readers laugh at how extremely purple some passges in romance novels become.
I don't like bad writing in anything. Bad writing is often a matter of convention, but not always.