Comments | utsusemia: Wicked City book day

utsusemia

Wicked City book day

Apr 10, 2012 12:01

Amazon/B&N/Powells

Well, Zephyr has landed. With any luck she’ll be at a bookstore near you (though if that bookstore is a Barnes & Noble, that will be the MAINSTREAM section, NOT Fantasy/SF-and god, don’t ask me why, the story is too long for the telling).

I am very happy to have this book finally released in the wild. I love the cover and hope that ( Read more... )

moonshine, zephyr, wicked city

Comments 9

shveta_thakrar April 10 2012, 18:41:52 UTC

Hoorayyyy!

ecmyers April 11 2012, 01:21:50 UTC

Happy book day!!!

ellen_kushner April 12 2012, 14:22:31 UTC

Ohhhh, Alaya --how is it possible that you love everything we all loved in college, when you weren't even there??

Great hearing you read from WICKED CITY at NYRSF last week - now I can't wait to read the whole book!

"THE SUMMER PRINCE," eh? Have you read Elizabeth Wein's THE WINTER PRINCE? I think you'll like it - and the odds are definitely in my favor!

utsusemia April 12 2012, 17:11:58 UTC

Haha, great minds, Ellen ;) My best friend and I in high school thought we were the only mad loons in the world. It turns out I just had to move to New York!

I actually read The Winter Prince when you recommended it to me ages ago and thought it was utterly wonderful. Cruel and weird and completely compelling. And now I'm reading Mary Gentle's Ash, which also seems to have not a little in the way of Lymond influence (in a woman, even better!)

ellen_kushner April 13 2012, 18:39:45 UTC

Someday, we/I really, really must write up that article on every author I know who was influenced by Dunnett - and which books they were! I remember Joan Vinge & Marta Randall.... Maybe there's some sort of Centennial for her birth? or the 50th Anniv. of THE GAME OF KINGS or something....?

utsusemia April 13 2012, 21:20:11 UTC

Hmm...it looks like we're early/late for good anniversaries. The Game of Kings came out in 61, she was born in 23...but yeah, what an awesome article that would be! I'm sure you know way more than I do about the genealogy of influence.

elialshadowpine September 16 2012, 08:02:03 UTC

I know this is quite a bit belated but I just finished reading Moonshine and immediately bought Wicked City and will be recommending the books to folks. I think it's possibly one of my favorite reads of 2012. Do you have others in the setting planned? :)

utsusemia September 16 2012, 16:45:09 UTC

That's awesome! I'm always happy for belated comments like that :) I am definitely planning at least one more Zephyr novel, however, the timing on it is up in the air. It depends on a lot of internal publishing stuff, but one way or another I hope to get the third book out in the next 2 years (3 on the outside). But believe me, fans will help speed things along, so please, recommend away!

elialshadowpine September 18 2012, 07:57:23 UTC

Yaay! I had actually been hearing about your work for awhile but my TBR is soo huge... I somehow also had gotten the impression that the series was urban fantasy, not 1920s alternate history / gaslight fantasy, or I would have been into it way earlier. (I'm really not sure how I got that impression, I think some of the marketing focused more on the urban aspect, which as a fellow writerly type, I know isn't in your control.) I know a bunch of folk that are reading various steampunk, gaslight fantasy, and alternate history, so I'll be prodding. Esp as a bunch I know are also annoyed with how little diversity there is in the subgenre.