No one said much here about that last post, but there have been some conversations at my LJ account, Aliette de Bodard’s LJ account, and the Westeros forum.
Category Archive for ‘MLN Hanover on Urban Fantasy’ 
MLN on UF: Why Jayne Heller Won’t Get Raped
by Daniel Abraham
The countdown is started. It’s a month until Vicious Grace hits shelves, and I’m getting nervous about it. I always do this. You know, covertly start checking the Amazon ranking (even though I know it doesn’t actually provide solid, useful data), checking for early reviews, and generally throwing the bones in hopes that it’s going to do well. It’s an illness. It really is. But something happened at my reading at MileHiCon that I wanted to talk about. So let’s […]
MLN Hanover on Urban Fantasy
by Daniel Abraham
I don’t know where to start. This is the third time I’ve started writing this little essay, and it seems like no matter what I begin with — how MLN Hanover was born of Buffy and Anita Blake, whether the root word from which ‘religion’ sprang was religare or relegare, or Who Censored Roger Rabbit (the book that became Who Framed Roger Rabbit) — it all winds up coming out in a clot. But that’s the point of writing, isn’t […]