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Dec. 20th, 2010 01:46 pmMy new BiblioBuffet piece is up - it's all about another set of steampunk vampires.
"Another set"? - yep - this means that Angry Robot and Pyr are both publishing steampunk vampire serieseseseses (they say add 'es' to create a plural, and both series are full of dramatic goodness, so I had to turn them into multiple plurals - also, it annoys people and annoying people is my grand goal of the day - I created the perfect line for my novel this morning, nay, it was the perfect paragraph and I bet I am persona non grata with physicists should any read it.)
To return to steampunk vampires (though my need to annoy folk was a good detour), if I could find a third set that's as much fun as the first two, I would write an article purely on steampunk vampires and annoy Charles Stross *and* those who think that vampire novels are over-rated. It's not just a matter of knowing the books exist, though, it's a matter of getting hold of them - I was lucky with the first two sets of steampunk vampire goodness, because the publishers themselves provided me with the volumes.
I wish I wrote the sort of work Pyr publishes, just because I love their cover choices. This isn't the first time I've said this about a publisher. I now have a secret list of artists I wish would do me a cover. I guess I need to move to bigger press to achieve any of them. I guess this means that maybe/perhaps I need to send stuff out. Not right now, though. Right now I'm still drowning in food history and in the stuff of PhDs (at the same time, even though the projects don't overlap - this is probably not a good thing.)
"Another set"? - yep - this means that Angry Robot and Pyr are both publishing steampunk vampire serieseseseses (they say add 'es' to create a plural, and both series are full of dramatic goodness, so I had to turn them into multiple plurals - also, it annoys people and annoying people is my grand goal of the day - I created the perfect line for my novel this morning, nay, it was the perfect paragraph and I bet I am persona non grata with physicists should any read it.)
To return to steampunk vampires (though my need to annoy folk was a good detour), if I could find a third set that's as much fun as the first two, I would write an article purely on steampunk vampires and annoy Charles Stross *and* those who think that vampire novels are over-rated. It's not just a matter of knowing the books exist, though, it's a matter of getting hold of them - I was lucky with the first two sets of steampunk vampire goodness, because the publishers themselves provided me with the volumes.
I wish I wrote the sort of work Pyr publishes, just because I love their cover choices. This isn't the first time I've said this about a publisher. I now have a secret list of artists I wish would do me a cover. I guess I need to move to bigger press to achieve any of them. I guess this means that maybe/perhaps I need to send stuff out. Not right now, though. Right now I'm still drowning in food history and in the stuff of PhDs (at the same time, even though the projects don't overlap - this is probably not a good thing.)