Books to look for
Jul. 19th, 2006 09:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jmc_bksBought a copy of the Romantic Times Book Magazine last weekend. I wanted to read the gossip column about the internet that referred to authors behaving badly. Eh.
Skimming through the mag, I am reminded why I don't buy it or subscribe. It has what might be useful information for those writers looking to get published (not me). Lots and lots of ads. A listing of the books nominated for the Virginia Romance Writers Award (only read 3 of ~30 books listed). It seemed much more like a club newsletter than a professional magazine, except on slightly better (but not really good) paper than most newsletters.
Of the kajillion books reviewed or advertised, these are the ones I'm interested in:
The Grail King by Joy Nash (Roman Britain historical)
Hocus Pocus by Teresa Roblin (paranormal)
Ask for It by Sylvia Day (historical)
The Man She Thought She Knew by Shari Shattuck (mystery)
The Privilege of the Sword by Ellen Kushner (fantasy)
End in Tears by Ruth Rendel (mystery)
Winters Child by Margaret Maron (mystery)
Snow Blind by PJ Tracy (mystery)
The Abortionist's Daughter by Elizabeth Hyde (general fiction)
Caridad Pineiro's SIM (forgot the title)(category romance)
I'm struck by two things: first that there are so many historicals, since I read more contemporaries than historicals by choice; and second, that in an adzine directed toward romance readers, my nonromances choices outweigh the romances.
Skimming through the mag, I am reminded why I don't buy it or subscribe. It has what might be useful information for those writers looking to get published (not me). Lots and lots of ads. A listing of the books nominated for the Virginia Romance Writers Award (only read 3 of ~30 books listed). It seemed much more like a club newsletter than a professional magazine, except on slightly better (but not really good) paper than most newsletters.
Of the kajillion books reviewed or advertised, these are the ones I'm interested in:
The Grail King by Joy Nash (Roman Britain historical)
Hocus Pocus by Teresa Roblin (paranormal)
Ask for It by Sylvia Day (historical)
The Man She Thought She Knew by Shari Shattuck (mystery)
The Privilege of the Sword by Ellen Kushner (fantasy)
End in Tears by Ruth Rendel (mystery)
Winters Child by Margaret Maron (mystery)
Snow Blind by PJ Tracy (mystery)
The Abortionist's Daughter by Elizabeth Hyde (general fiction)
Caridad Pineiro's SIM (forgot the title)(category romance)
I'm struck by two things: first that there are so many historicals, since I read more contemporaries than historicals by choice; and second, that in an adzine directed toward romance readers, my nonromances choices outweigh the romances.
