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Originally Posted by phenomshel
LOL I have been waiting for you to get to this point. I love when authors write themselves into their books
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Sometimes that kind of thing works (Mercedes Lackey writing herself and her friends as a cameo donating to a street busker in
Knight of Ghosts and Shadows); sometimes it doesn't (Mercedes Lackey writing herself in as the screentime-taking-up love interest with important secondary role to a main character in the Valdemar books).
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Originally Posted by phenomshel
(Be sure and read The Copenhagen Connection if you haven't yet).
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Happily, that appears to available from the library as an e-book. But after reading all the Amelia Peabodys and a good chunk of Bliss and Kirby in a row, I think I'm kind of petered out for now. Maybe next month (although I kind of want to read her
Night of Four Hundred Rabbits first, if only because it's got an awesome-sounding title); thanks for the recommend!
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Do you have Goodreads or Shelfari? Bet our bookshelves would sync up pretty well, LOL.
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I think you'd probably have to read more sf and I'd have to read more cozies before that actually happened.
But we seem to have a decent amount of overlap; enough for a modest Venn diagram, at least.
I keep meaning to get around to creating a Goodreads/Shelfari account, if only to keep track of the umpteen books I actually own so that I don't rebuy them, but I'm afraid I haven't actually gotten around to it yet, sorry.
Anyway, to continue the theme of historical artifact-based murder mysteries, was reading
The Secret Portrait by
Lillian Stewart Carl which was a free giveaway during Read an e-Book Week to see if I wanted to get anything of hers during the Backlist E-Book Authors sale when she was offering selected titles at 50% off.
I ended up buying
Lucifer's Crown, a fantasy, and
Shadows in Scarlet, a romantic suspense which I finally decided on because it was not overwhelmingly romance-y in the sample and had two things I love in it in addition to a decent mystery element: historical re-enactment (with costumes and Ye Olde Manglede Englishe!
) and academic quibbling. Plus she'd already been pretty generous in giving away a full-length start-of-series freebie, so I was feeling mildly generous in return.
I did pass on the third mystery/romance offering,
Ashes to Ashes, because it looked too romance-y for my tastes at that price, especially considering the formatting was kind of messed up with the sudden font changes throughout. Maybe next time if I get to like the main characters, who have a supporting role in TSP. And the formatting gets fixed.
Haven't finished TSP because it's now on hold while I try to finish up some paper books from the library which are due Real Soon Now.