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2. I am slogging through my SV story at about ten words a day, but I know how it ends at last, and so I put myself up for auction at Sweet Charity! I am offering:
3. I am almost caught up on professional reading, and hope to give away a bunch of fiction soon. This will include three Marjorie Liu books:
Marjorie M. Liu, Tiger Eye: Dela has a special talent for metalworking, including making blades. On a trip to China, a strange woman gives her a stranger box, and she finds herself in possession of Hari, a shapeshifter minus his skin. They have an instantaneous connection even though Hari resents his enslavement and has suffered so much that he finds it difficult to believe in Dela’s good faith. Then a lot of people try to kill them, for various reasons.
Shadow Touch: Elena has the gift of healing. When she’s kidnapped by a shadowy organization whose nefarious motives only start with running unethical experiments on her, she runs into fellow prisoner Artur, who has the gift/curse of seeing the history of objects and people when he touches them. Artur finds Elena’s touch restorative rather than hateful, unlike most touches he experiences. They escape, but what they’ve learned about the organization’s larger plans impels them to act.
Marjorie Liu, The Wild Road: Um, I didn’t finish this one, not even with the shiny black mint-condition 1960s Impala driven by the main male character as an incentive. He’s a gargoyle; she’s some sort of telekinetic with total amnesia who wakes up in a burning hotel covered with blood and holding a gun. They … fight crime?
Liu has a wide variety of powered-up characters. They all seem to be waiting for their heterosexual lifemates; there is a stable of unmated male characters playing important roles in the background of each book (fewer unmated female characters). I see why people enjoy her books, but I kept stumbling on the “sudden, undeniable and unquestionable connection” part. I felt like I was being told how deep the protagonists’ connection was, and then everything unspooled from there, rather than getting a real sense of why they liked each other (well, they’re all hot and they’re all really good people, so it’s not like it’s implausible; the connections just seemed to lack specificity other than the specificity of fiat: this is your soulmate).
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jadelennox on Ada Lovelace Day and women in programming.2. I am slogging through my SV story at about ten words a day, but I know how it ends at last, and so I put myself up for auction at Sweet Charity! I am offering:
A story, at least 1000 words but possibly a fair amount longer (past auction stories are in the 15,000-25,000 range). Fandoms: SPN, Chuck; SV or crossovers with anything I know by negotiation--I will try Buffy, SCC, or almost anything else if I think I can make it work. Gen, het, slash--again, I'll try almost anything, though my strength is taking standard tropes and putting a bit of a topspin on them.
3. I am almost caught up on professional reading, and hope to give away a bunch of fiction soon. This will include three Marjorie Liu books:
Marjorie M. Liu, Tiger Eye: Dela has a special talent for metalworking, including making blades. On a trip to China, a strange woman gives her a stranger box, and she finds herself in possession of Hari, a shapeshifter minus his skin. They have an instantaneous connection even though Hari resents his enslavement and has suffered so much that he finds it difficult to believe in Dela’s good faith. Then a lot of people try to kill them, for various reasons.
Shadow Touch: Elena has the gift of healing. When she’s kidnapped by a shadowy organization whose nefarious motives only start with running unethical experiments on her, she runs into fellow prisoner Artur, who has the gift/curse of seeing the history of objects and people when he touches them. Artur finds Elena’s touch restorative rather than hateful, unlike most touches he experiences. They escape, but what they’ve learned about the organization’s larger plans impels them to act.
Marjorie Liu, The Wild Road: Um, I didn’t finish this one, not even with the shiny black mint-condition 1960s Impala driven by the main male character as an incentive. He’s a gargoyle; she’s some sort of telekinetic with total amnesia who wakes up in a burning hotel covered with blood and holding a gun. They … fight crime?
Liu has a wide variety of powered-up characters. They all seem to be waiting for their heterosexual lifemates; there is a stable of unmated male characters playing important roles in the background of each book (fewer unmated female characters). I see why people enjoy her books, but I kept stumbling on the “sudden, undeniable and unquestionable connection” part. I felt like I was being told how deep the protagonists’ connection was, and then everything unspooled from there, rather than getting a real sense of why they liked each other (well, they’re all hot and they’re all really good people, so it’s not like it’s implausible; the connections just seemed to lack specificity other than the specificity of fiat: this is your soulmate).
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