My lj is supposed to act as a writing record/aid, although at the moment it's largely being used to log the vast number of books I seem unable to stop reading. I hoped linking to writers I like would inspire me or, at worst, keep me updated on new publications...
I read Ghost Sister some years ago and really liked the world-building, but hadn't read anything else of yours until I picked up Snake Agent fairly recently (on the rather shallow basis that the concept sounded interesting and the cover was gorgeous!). Anyway, I loved the story, the world and the characters (especially Chen - I'm very fond of low-key, competent heroes with a inconvenient sense of morality - but also, predictably, the badger-teakettle), and have since been working through your backlist as well as developing a rather expensive relationship with Night Shade Books.
I do hope this isn't too impertinent a question. I really loved the humour in your Inspector Chen books, but it's a broadening in tone from your other novels (I think someone in Darkland describes Vali as "serious-minded", which fits a lot of the other protagonists in the ones I've read). The tone in the Chen books, though, seems to fit better with the way you come across in this lj, for example in the stories about Sid (and, not to leave them out, the other nonhuman household members). I wondered to what degree the lack of comedy in the other books was a deliberate choice.
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Date: 2007-04-18 01:23 pm (UTC)I read Ghost Sister some years ago and really liked the world-building, but hadn't read anything else of yours until I picked up Snake Agent fairly recently (on the rather shallow basis that the concept sounded interesting and the cover was gorgeous!). Anyway, I loved the story, the world and the characters (especially Chen - I'm very fond of low-key, competent heroes with a inconvenient sense of morality - but also, predictably, the badger-teakettle), and have since been working through your backlist as well as developing a rather expensive relationship with Night Shade Books.
I do hope this isn't too impertinent a question. I really loved the humour in your Inspector Chen books, but it's a broadening in tone from your other novels (I think someone in Darkland describes Vali as "serious-minded", which fits a lot of the other protagonists in the ones I've read). The tone in the Chen books, though, seems to fit better with the way you come across in this lj, for example in the stories about Sid (and, not to leave them out, the other nonhuman household members). I wondered to what degree the lack of comedy in the other books was a deliberate choice.