Indecision

[jhetley]

Okay, the Nice Agent Lady has looked over my couple-of-chapters-plus-synopsis and says it looks like a great idea _but_ it may be too close to Jim Butcher's Dresden series. So, since I maintain a great well of ignorance on the Dresden books, I have spent ACTUAL MONEY on a copy of the first of the series.

(Spent ACTUAL MONEY because the entire consolidated electronic card catalog of the libraries of the great State of Maine does not show a single copy of the aforementioned series. Which may be why I haven't read any of them...)

Do I keep writing on my fat, balding, burnt-out forensic mage, or don't I? Hell, that can be a grand metaphysical question rather than just deciding the fate of SIGNATURES. If the market doesn't want my natural stuff, should I try to morph into something else, or just shrug and walk away? Seasonal depression suggests the latter.

Yugg.

On a brighter note, the B. Daltons where I bought that book had sold out of the DRAGON'S EYE copies that I signed.

Comments

[starcat-jewel.livejournal.com]

Oh, fadoodle! As if every romance novel ever written wasn't similar to every friggin' other romance novel in the world. I like the "occult investigator" genre in general; I like Lord Darcy, I liked the Diana Tregarde books (and I just found a Lackey historical in the same vein, called The Wizard of London), for that matter I like the Telzey Amberdon stories, which aren't occult precisely but are fantasy, and now that you've mentioned this Butcher person I may go out and look for those. As far as I'm concerned, the more varieties of "occult investigator" series there are, the happier I'll be. And I will bet my betting nickel that I'm not the only person who feels that way.

[wolfette]

give him different flaws.