date: 2007-05-02 09:38 subject: HEIDI'S PICK SIX - ELAINE CUNNINGHAM security: Public tags: elaine cunningham, heidi ruby miller, heidi's pick six

The Stories of Elaine Cunningham
( Read what Elaine had to say. )

date: 2007-05-01 07:36 subject: HEIDI'S PICK SIX - WEEK 12 security: Public tags: elaine cunningham, heidi ruby miller, heidi's pick six, jim c. hines

Because Jason and I just got home from celebrating his birthday in Vegas and Zion (Check out his awesome pitcures at jaguarpaddler!), this week's PICK SIX will start tomorrow. Here's the line up:

Wednesday - Elaine Cunningham / Fantasy and Science Fiction

Friday - Jim C. Hines / Fantasy


HEIDI'S PICK SIX, Heidi Ruby Miller, Elaine Cunningham, Jim C. Hines, writing, author interviews

date: 2006-05-16 20:47 subject: F & SF: Books To Look For by Charles De Lint (July 2006) security: Public tags: cell, charles de lint, elaine cunningham, fantasy and science fiction, moon called, patricia briggs, shadows in the starlight, stephen king

Charles De Lint's 'Books To Look For' section of Fantasy and Science Fiction is a monthly review of upcoming speculative fiction books. In the July 2006 issue, he voices his opinion on three novels:

MOON CALLED by Patricia Briggs (ACE Books, 2006)

SHADOWS IN THE STARLIGHT by Elaine Cunningham (TOR Books, 2006)

CELL by Stephen King (Scribner's 2006)

While De Lint was taken with MOON CALLED and CELL, he has a beef with SHADOWS IN THE STARLIGHT - the ending. Apparently since SHADOWS is part of an ongoing series, plotlines were not resolved. De Lint felt Cunningham and TOR broke "the contract between reader and writer."

He gives reasons why authors don't resolve plotlines:
laziness
incompetence
avarice
watching too many tv series with season-long arcs

Obviously he goes into much further detail about the problem, including how the novel seems marketed as a stand-alone.

As a writer, I found the mini-lesson quite useful and a cautionary tale.

X-posted to setonhillwpf, speculativefics, f_and_sf, sfandf_critters, and since it deals with book reviews this time, sf_book_reviews

Also, don't forget to check out mallory_blog and highway_west for their take on the F & SF July 2006 issue.