So, via self-pimpage-by-invite by the author, via John Scalzi's weblog (where he devotes a weekly-or-so feature to such self-pimpage-by-invite), I'm reading
Iron Hunt by Marjorie M. Liu.
This is a legit post! Really! It's connected to this comm (however tenuously) through this
Publisher's Weekly plug: "Readers
of early Laurell K. Hamilton, Charlaine Harris, and the best thrillers out there should try Liu now and catch a rising star."
The bolded bit seems to be becoming a theme.
Anyway, I was skeptical, but Scalzi's word sent me to it, and then the first line hooked me:
"When I was eight, my mother lost me to zombies in a one-card draw."(That's every bit as awesome as "The small boys came early to the hanging." ^___^ Possibly more.)
( Read more... )Oh, and people? SHE THANKS HER COPYEDITORS. Who
does that??! I love her. She could write drivel from page 88 onwards and she'd still own me.