March Forth!
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lydamorehouseIt's been the week for books arriving in the mail. Yesterday there was another huge box on my porch. This time it contained contributor's copies of WHEDONISTAS! A CELEBRATION OF THE WORLDS OF JOSS WHEDON BY THE WOMEN WHO LOVE THEM (edited by Lynne Thomas and Deborah Standish). ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rarelylynne talked me into writing an article for her, despite the fact that my non-fiction sucks even worse than my short stories. The result was "Romancing the Vampire and Other Shiny Bits" in which I try to make the case that Joss Whedon is responsible for the explosion of urban fantasy/paranormal romance in publishing in the last decade.
I'm not sure I do a very good job of it, but that shouldn't stop you from picking up the book if you have any interest in Joss Whedon, his various projects, or Whedon fandom in general. Because the other contributors are very good and include people like Emma Bull (coffeeem), Elizabeth Bear (matociquala), Catherynne M. Valente (yuki_onna, and many, many more such luminaries.
WHEDONISTAS! shares a publishing date and a publisher with RESURRECTION CODE (March 15), so, you know, you could order both at once! ;-)
Speaking of books, I am venturing out of my comfort zone of SF/F to read Michael Muhammad Knight's THE TAQWACORES. THE TAQWACORES a fiction book about the Muslim punk rock scene (a real movement,) which a friend and former Immigration History Research Center collegue Todd Michney recommended to me. I'm not much for "literary" books -- and this one is touted as "The Catcher in the Rye for young Muslims," which doesn't help as CATCHER IN THE RYE is a book I bounced off HARD, despite having to read in high school and college. Actually, I would go so far as to say I *hate* CATCHER IN THE RYE. This book, however, seems pretty fascinating so far.
It is a very strange follow-up to THE LAST HAWK, though the back cover copy does promise sex....
In other news, it's Friday. We have a busy weekend coming up, though hopefully not nearly as intense as the last. I've got panels at MarsCON both Saturday and Sunday, and Mason has his swimming class, and we'd really like to hit Uncle Hugo's this weekend for a bit of light book shopping. Shawn is actually supposed to be heading off for a business trip in the next few weeks, and she's out of mystery novels. I want to see if I can find Asaro's follow-up book to LAST HAWK, if for no other reason that to satisfy my curiosity that it's just as cheesy and sexed-up as the previous one.
I also totally forgot about my fish yesterday, so the tanks needs a cleanin'. Stuff to do!
Hopefully, I'll see some of y'all at MarsCON. The rest, I'll check in with you on Monday.
rarelylynne talked me into writing an article for her, despite the fact that my non-fiction sucks even worse than my short stories. The result was "Romancing the Vampire and Other Shiny Bits" in which I try to make the case that Joss Whedon is responsible for the explosion of urban fantasy/paranormal romance in publishing in the last decade. I'm not sure I do a very good job of it, but that shouldn't stop you from picking up the book if you have any interest in Joss Whedon, his various projects, or Whedon fandom in general. Because the other contributors are very good and include people like Emma Bull (
coffeeem), Elizabeth Bear (matociquala), Catherynne M. Valente (yuki_onna, and many, many more such luminaries.WHEDONISTAS! shares a publishing date and a publisher with RESURRECTION CODE (March 15), so, you know, you could order both at once! ;-)
Speaking of books, I am venturing out of my comfort zone of SF/F to read Michael Muhammad Knight's THE TAQWACORES. THE TAQWACORES a fiction book about the Muslim punk rock scene (a real movement,) which a friend and former Immigration History Research Center collegue Todd Michney recommended to me. I'm not much for "literary" books -- and this one is touted as "The Catcher in the Rye for young Muslims," which doesn't help as CATCHER IN THE RYE is a book I bounced off HARD, despite having to read in high school and college. Actually, I would go so far as to say I *hate* CATCHER IN THE RYE. This book, however, seems pretty fascinating so far.
It is a very strange follow-up to THE LAST HAWK, though the back cover copy does promise sex....
In other news, it's Friday. We have a busy weekend coming up, though hopefully not nearly as intense as the last. I've got panels at MarsCON both Saturday and Sunday, and Mason has his swimming class, and we'd really like to hit Uncle Hugo's this weekend for a bit of light book shopping. Shawn is actually supposed to be heading off for a business trip in the next few weeks, and she's out of mystery novels. I want to see if I can find Asaro's follow-up book to LAST HAWK, if for no other reason that to satisfy my curiosity that it's just as cheesy and sexed-up as the previous one.
I also totally forgot about my fish yesterday, so the tanks needs a cleanin'. Stuff to do!
Hopefully, I'll see some of y'all at MarsCON. The rest, I'll check in with you on Monday.
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Date: 2011-03-04 05:42 pm (UTC)Your essay was great. I don't publish bad essays.