Exciting news coming real soon!
Remember that exciting news that I've been itching to announce, but couldn't quite yet? Well, I still can't quite yet, but I'll either be posting it this afternoon or definitely by tomorrow.
Okay, ladies. Here's the chance you've all been waiting for. . .the Character of the Week for this week is Tamnais Nathrach. If you have any questions for Tam (and I know you do), send them to me before Friday. Tam will be here to answer them on Saturday.
Recently I read a short interview with Alan Campbell, author of Scar Night. I just loved his definition of the difference between "high fantasy" and "urban fantasy." It was priceless. He said, "I'd like to think that if high fantasy asked you to embark upon a quest to find a magic stone, then urban fantasy would be waiting in the shadows, ready to mug you when you got back."
Okay, ladies. Here's the chance you've all been waiting for. . .the Character of the Week for this week is Tamnais Nathrach. If you have any questions for Tam (and I know you do), send them to me before Friday. Tam will be here to answer them on Saturday.
Recently I read a short interview with Alan Campbell, author of Scar Night. I just loved his definition of the difference between "high fantasy" and "urban fantasy." It was priceless. He said, "I'd like to think that if high fantasy asked you to embark upon a quest to find a magic stone, then urban fantasy would be waiting in the shadows, ready to mug you when you got back."
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Recently I read a short interview with Alan Campbell, author of Scar Night. I just loved his definition of the difference between "high fantasy" and "urban fantasy." ..He said, "I'd like to think that if high fantasy asked you to embark upon a quest to find a magic stone, then urban fantasy would be waiting in the shadows, ready to mug you when you got back."
Um. What about e.g. Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and Gray Mouser stories? They're semi-heroic semi-sleazy fantasy, and date back decades to long before the subgenre "urban fantasy showed up. Or, here's Roger Zelazny's fantasy, wherein Jack of Shadows in the novel of the same name, reincarnates in the Dung Pits of Glyve. And then there were the Kane stories by Karl Edward Wagner, a psychiatrist turned dark fiction writer who had an internal self-destructive streak and drank himself into the grave (not hearsay, see the article about him some years back in New York Review of Science Fiction). Kane was an emotionally self-tortured damned anti-hero type of heroic fantasy.
And last but not least, there's the Mordred of Camelot, "Let others take the high road, I will take the low..."
For that matter, I don't think that all the urban fantasy out there is actually noir--most of it being currently written/published is, but I think that perhaps that that's more the tenor of the times, there's been lighter-hearted contemporary fantasy fare, but the darker stuff is currently predominating.
ok hears a question for Tam(im not sure where to ask them lol, sorry) What do you think of Raine? from W.G.
I know the secret, I know the secret! But then, I'm on Lisa's mailing list, and am therefore privy to insider information!!
Lisa, I'm itching to announce it! But I will be good and wait for your blessing.
Question for Tam . . . question for Tam. Do you think it will come to crossed swords between you and Mychael? And if so, are you practicing your bladework?
Questions for Tam:
1. Raine's explained the attraction that elves find regarding goblins--the feeling about dark danger, the long dark hair, the gorgous features....--but what's the attraction that goblins find for elves? What is it that a widowed defector from the goblin court who's running an exclusive expensive entertainment club in Mermeia, finds so fascinating about a flame-haired minor sorceress from a family full of infamous pirates and other lawbreaking sticky-fingered sorts?
2. What's the explanaton behind calling someone who was married to a Mal'Salin "of the royal blood?" With humans in other lands, one can only be "of the royal blood" if one's a descendant of royalty or has relatives of common ancestry who are royalty. "Blood relative" in humans denotes common ancestry, usually in a fairly close degree of relationship unless cited as "distant relative." What's the situation with goblins?
3. Did you study on Mid back in the days when you openly practiced magic? (That is, you have a public appearance of having put aside magic-using, though Raine's mentioned your wards, indicating that you can't be entirely non-practicing as regards magic use these days.)
4. What relatives of common ancestry do you have, or do you have any still?
5. How old are you, and how long were you married; any children? That doubledealing nephew of yours (typical Mal'Salin, or is that merely prejudice on the part of Raine?) is in early adulthood....
6. What was the kinship degree between your late wife and the current goblin King?
7. Do you have any title in your own right?
8. How did you come to be married to a Mal'Salin grand duchess, anyway, and what did the rest of her family think of you? You being the late Queens' primaru prior to your wife's murder indicates that at least the Queen held you in some degree of esteem.
Those are some great questions! Now if I can just persuade Tam to fess up. Wish me luck on that one.
Many of my questions have already been posed, but I do have one along the crossed-swords line that Tia raised.
Tam, if things do come down to a duel of magic, how would you rate your powers compared to Mychael's? Do you think your powers are superior, evenly matched, or would you be at a disadvantage? And if it does come down to a clash between you and the Conclave Guardian, what would be your weapon of choice?
Of course, if the answers to my questions result in spoilers, you can smirk and invoke your right to remain silent. ;)
Oh, one more for Tam.
Not to open old wounds, but could you describe your late wife? What was she like? Does Raine remind you of her in any way?
ok Tam, we all know you have a thing for Raine, but was it love at first sight? or the getting to know her type of love?
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