Bookkeeping

[stillsostrange]

#5. Ink and Steel - matociquala

It would be mean of me to gloat that I've read this and (most of) you haven't, wouldn't it? I thought so.

I was skeptical of this when Bear was first talking about the idea. I'm often skeptical of historical fantasy. (tanaise can show you the Dumas romance, if you wonder why.) Then I read the first draft of The Stratford Man, and lo, my doubts were ended. I thought it was the best of Bear's books at the time, and some ridiculous number of her books later, I still think so. And given my love of Whiskey and Water and All the Windwracked Stars, that's saying something. It definitely has the best boysmooches.

If you're of a poetical bent, matociquala is having an ARC contest in her journal now. If not, the prologue is up on her website now, and four more scenes from Act I will follow in the next few weeks.

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[matociquala.livejournal.com]

Meanie!

*laffs and laffs*

I think I'm pretty happy with those too.

[pnkrokhockeymom.livejournal.com]

I'm going to TRY to write a sonnet this weekend but I don't have a poetry gene. But I'm pre-ordering anyway.

"best boysmooches"....Yay!