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Author Craft / Re: Richelle's "Vampire Academy"
« on: November 23, 2007, 01:13:27 AM »
Haven't read the book, but it is on the  "to read" list when I am done this year of grad school.  I do have to say, you can almost universally pick out role players by pointing at youngish men wearing dusters...

(I am a role player, that is not a knock or anything)

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Author Craft / Re: What do you wish would be done MORE in urban fantasy?
« on: November 23, 2007, 01:11:20 AM »
I would think a story told from the perspective of an evil monster. Not one that is good in anyway and not apologetic for being bad. And not a bloody vampire. The mummy book by Anne Rice started to look that way, then they stopped.

A troll in Today's New York city that really does eat children who pass over a bridge. That would be kind of interesting.

Failing that, a story that focused on a more nuanced view of good and evil...

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Author Craft / Re: Vampire Use In Contemporary Fantasy
« on: January 06, 2007, 12:31:45 AM »
I don't use them, they are WAY overused. They are however convenient for an author because there are already a good set of preconceptions...you don't have to re-invent the wheel for a character that way.

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Author Craft / Re: 6 word stories
« on: January 06, 2007, 12:28:45 AM »
My morning: the vagaries of existence.

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