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[shadowkat]

1. The snow storm Titan turned out to be sort of wimpy in NYC. I think it went south of us.
We got a trace of snow, it that, and most of it prior to 6am.

2. I think, no proof, that Elizabeth Hoyt cut her teeth on Spuffy fanfic. Why? Her first two novels in the Maiden Lane series remind me a lot of back-in-time William/Buffy or Spike/Buffy fanfic that I'd read. The hero in Wicked Intentions is very S6 Spike. White hair. Sword in a stick. Long black cape. And into kink. Also investigating a serial killer. And the hero/heroine relationship in Notorious Pleasures as described by a a reviewer on Good Reads reminds me a great deal of the whole: "You love me/No I don't. But you like what I do to you relationship dynamics" in S6 Buffy." With the added benefit that the hero is involved in illegal and nefarious activities (illegal gin distilling), and her brother and friends are all against him so of course she's shagging him in private, while she's engaged to his upstanding, picture perfect, brooding, whiny, putz of a brother.

Actually - a lot of published romance and genre novels started as fanfic writers. The romance and sci-fantasy genre publishers actually embrace fanfic writers who create original fic and have huge fan bases. Found this out a while back from someone who wrote Highlander fanfic. She said - if you could prove you had a huge fanbase for your fic, they'd be more willing to publish your original fiction.

Rather like this writer - she's hitting my story kinks hard. She introduces each chapter with snippets from a fairy tale. So it's as if we have two stories in one. The fairy tale for this novel is King Lockedheart - not sure if she made it up or it actually exists. It's definitely not a fairy tale I've heard of.

3. Nailed the Oscars. My predictions were almost perfect - which shows how political and predictable the Oscars have become.

4. Hee...I've lost 56 pounds since August.

Comments

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the weight loss!

And I've really enjoyed several of Hoyts novels. And I appreciated that she has a variety of heroes and heroines.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

She does at that. I'm thinking Wicked Intentions may well have been one of her first novels, it's very rough in places. But quite good - interesting characters. There's a lot on Silence, Winter's youngest sister - whose story is apparently being slowly built up across three books. She's married in this one. Also Godric St. John and Winter are introduced and explored a bit. Right now, I'm trying to figure out which one saved Temperance and Caire in the alley as the Ghost of St. Giles. Temperance guesses possibly Winter. Caire thinks possibly St. John. Although neither are sure, nor say it directly.

[sophist.livejournal.com]

That weight loss is impressive. You should be very proud of that.

I noticed your Oscar predictions. Care to tell me what the stock market is going to do this year?

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

I wish...since I have to figure out the stock market myself.