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blamebrampton ([personal profile] blamebrampton) wrote2011-01-01 10:57 pm
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An auspicious beginning ...

I had planned to write a short thought-filled essay today.

Prior to that, I had a dinner engagement with a friend who is over from London. I wrote out her Christmas/New Year card. I wished her all the best for 2007.

Dinner was delightful, and I have now downgraded my plans to mineral water and a paperback.

All the best!
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[identity profile] kudilu.livejournal.com 2011-01-01 03:17 pm (UTC)(link)
May I suggest you try Jean Johnson, if you haven't already? Yes, her published work is (at least mostly) published as romance, but they're really fantasy books that don't leave out the actual sex.

[identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/ 2011-01-01 05:08 pm (UTC)(link)
I haven't read her yet - the covers wouldn't have tempted me. Does she also have some that are really good while others are the usual rape fantasies or could I try any book?

[identity profile] kudilu.livejournal.com 2011-01-01 06:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, most of what she has published right now is a series; or rather, a series of 8 and a single book set in the same world. Another book in the same world (with 4 shorter pieces in it) is due out sometime early this year. I would suggest that you either start with the beginning of the series or the stand-alone, though she did write the books in such a way that they can be read without reading the previous ones.
None of them are the standard rape-fantasy, though i must admit I've never read anything that was. Then again, i think the only published books I've read that were categorized as 'romance' are these ones and the original Tyler series, which is like 12 books and has a murder-mystery woven through the whole set.
Anyway, the series starts with The Sword, and the stand-alone is Shifting Plains.
If you would like a short description, i would be happy to write you one, though I do have a habit of giving minor spoilers in descriptions. I think i could do a paragraph or two on the 8-book series without giving any actual spoilers though.

[identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/ 2011-01-01 06:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Heh, thanks. I wanted to try out her erotic fairy tales first and was wondering if I'd find one of those online, short enough as a reliable taste-test but completely self-contained. I'll have another look tomorrow.

[identity profile] kudilu.livejournal.com 2011-01-01 06:29 pm (UTC)(link)
hm, i don't think i read those ones, though i remember reading about them.
If you're just looking for a taste-test of her writing style, she writes Harry Potter fanfiction (mostly focused on Hermione/Snape) under the name of LadyoftheMasque - most of it is available at TPP LotM, though the massive epic For Someone Special is only available at her Yahoo! group or on The Restricted Section (i believe). She's got plenty of shorter pieces there.
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