Comments on: Cover to Cover #294A: Matt Wallace http://www.dragonpage.com/2008/01/29/cover-to-cover-294a/ Conversations with the Creators of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Thrillers! Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:12:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: C. A. Sweeney http://www.dragonpage.com/2008/01/29/cover-to-cover-294a/comment-page-1/#comment-210093 C. A. Sweeney Fri, 01 Feb 2008 20:14:43 +0000 http://www.dragonpage.com/2008/01/29/cover-to-cover-294a/#comment-210093 I was just listening to this episode and heard your skepticism about the Mercy Thompson book by Patricia Briggs. Don't judge the book by its genre -- the series is definitely worth reading. It doesn't fall into the romance-genre trap of making its hero and heroine perfect. Mercy is not the biggest, baddest, sexiest shapeshifter on the block, she's just the only one willing to poke her nose into other nonhumankind's business. (Werewolves, vampires, and fae tend to keep to their own kind, but Mercy's the only "walker," or coyote shapeshifter, alive as far as she knows.) And while the back cover blurb plays up the love-triangle aspect of her relationships with two werewolves, the mystery is the main focus of the story. The love triangle actually plays a part in character development and in illuminating aspects of werewolf pack culture. (You know how fans start these campaigns to send specific items to TV networks to persuade them to save a show? Maybe we can start a campaign to bombard Laurell K. Hamilton with the Mercy Thompson series books, along with little notes reading, "Look! Genre books can have plots! Try it!") I was just listening to this episode and heard your skepticism about the Mercy Thompson book by Patricia Briggs. Don’t judge the book by its genre — the series is definitely worth reading. It doesn’t fall into the romance-genre trap of making its hero and heroine perfect. Mercy is not the biggest, baddest, sexiest shapeshifter on the block, she’s just the only one willing to poke her nose into other nonhumankind’s business. (Werewolves, vampires, and fae tend to keep to their own kind, but Mercy’s the only “walker,” or coyote shapeshifter, alive as far as she knows.)

And while the back cover blurb plays up the love-triangle aspect of her relationships with two werewolves, the mystery is the main focus of the story. The love triangle actually plays a part in character development and in illuminating aspects of werewolf pack culture.

(You know how fans start these campaigns to send specific items to TV networks to persuade them to save a show? Maybe we can start a campaign to bombard Laurell K. Hamilton with the Mercy Thompson series books, along with little notes reading, “Look! Genre books can have plots! Try it!”)

]]> By: Arkle http://www.dragonpage.com/2008/01/29/cover-to-cover-294a/comment-page-1/#comment-209653 Arkle Fri, 01 Feb 2008 06:24:33 +0000 http://www.dragonpage.com/2008/01/29/cover-to-cover-294a/#comment-209653 The urban legend comes true. The urban legend comes true.

]]> By: Jack Jaffee http://www.dragonpage.com/2008/01/29/cover-to-cover-294a/comment-page-1/#comment-208554 Jack Jaffee Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:57:11 +0000 http://www.dragonpage.com/2008/01/29/cover-to-cover-294a/#comment-208554 That program is Read Please. you can get it at www.readplease.com and no Summer it won't do net speak. :) That program is Read Please. you can get it at http://www.readplease.com and no Summer it won’t do net speak. :)

]]> By: Brent Kellmer http://www.dragonpage.com/2008/01/29/cover-to-cover-294a/comment-page-1/#comment-208324 Brent Kellmer Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:59:23 +0000 http://www.dragonpage.com/2008/01/29/cover-to-cover-294a/#comment-208324 A side note on your comment about Kidney Tourism -- a recent article on CNN online touches on a problem with such ventures -- the body parts transplanted aren't always given up willingly. In New Delhi, for instance, a ring of kidney thieves has been luring people with the promise of a job, knocking them out, and then literally stealing their kidneys, leaving them dazed, with a hell of a scar to remember their kidney by. The article can be found here: http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/01/29/india.transplant/index.html A side note on your comment about Kidney Tourism — a recent article on CNN online touches on a problem with such ventures — the body parts transplanted aren’t always given up willingly.

In New Delhi, for instance, a ring of kidney thieves has been luring people with the promise of a job, knocking them out, and then literally stealing their kidneys, leaving them dazed, with a hell of a scar to remember their kidney by.

The article can be found here: http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/01/29/india.transplant/index.html

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