Month: February 2009
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Images – Cyndere’s Midnight 3
Much has been said by other CSFF bloggers about the beauty of Jeffrey Overstreet’s writing. They’re right. Even Publishers Weekly, reviewing Auralia’s Colors, called his writing “precise and beautiful.” But what makes writing truly beautiful? It starts in the roots, in the word choices themselves, in the rhythms as they grow into something more. And…
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Immerse Yourself – Cyndere’s Midnight 2
Yesterday I bought a copy of Cyndere’s Midnight, happy and excited because I rarely get to buy novels — especially ones I’m really excited about. I actually bought two books, because Cyndere’s Midnight is the sequel to Auralia’s Colors, and you can’t read a sequel first. At least I can’t. Consequently, I’m halfway through Auralia’s…
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Cyndere’s Midnight: CSFF Blog Tour
Jeffrey Overstreet is not just a novelist. That “just” is not meant in any way derogatory; sometimes I wish I was just a novelist. But Overstreet, like me, writes a lot more than fiction, and I’m willing to bet his fiction is coloured by the attentive finger he keeps on the pulse of popular fiction.…
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Passages: The House of Dreams
Maggie Sheffield has just begun her adventure when she meets Nicolas Fisher and his black bear. Nicolas takes her to an inn called the House of Dreams, where they quickly come face-to-face with a living nightmare. I love to write description, and the House of Dreams has always been a particularly vivid scene to me.…