I'm inviting myself to your tea party, just so you know. :D
They are overrated! I'm all about the worldbuilding and characters.
And I like mutants with complicated emotional arcs and dynamics within evil families and pseudo-Victoriana That...pretty much sums it up! Though they're Sidhe, not mutants, but it amounts to the same thing. There's a whole backstory that's going to be hugely fun to work out the details of. If this thing ever gets off the ground (I'm notorious for things that don't get off the ground), I'm sure I'll be keeping my flist updated on my progress.
I love YA. I feel like the books I read between the ages of about 9 and 14 are the ones that shaped me the most, and when it was people like Madeleine L'Engle and Robin McKinley and Elizabeth George Speare and L.M. Montgomery, how could it not influence me? There's a lot of good stuff coming out, especially in fantasy, if you can get away from the Twilight-knockoffs. I really am excited about hopefully contributing to that market one day.
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They are overrated! I'm all about the worldbuilding and characters.
And I like mutants with complicated emotional arcs and dynamics within evil families and pseudo-Victoriana That...pretty much sums it up! Though they're Sidhe, not mutants, but it amounts to the same thing. There's a whole backstory that's going to be hugely fun to work out the details of. If this thing ever gets off the ground (I'm notorious for things that don't get off the ground), I'm sure I'll be keeping my flist updated on my progress.
I love YA. I feel like the books I read between the ages of about 9 and 14 are the ones that shaped me the most, and when it was people like Madeleine L'Engle and Robin McKinley and Elizabeth George Speare and L.M. Montgomery, how could it not influence me? There's a lot of good stuff coming out, especially in fantasy, if you can get away from the Twilight-knockoffs. I really am excited about hopefully contributing to that market one day.