11.26.2005

Laugh riot of the day

A Snarkling very helpfully sent me a link to explain "urban fantasy". I slunk over for a read.

I about dropped my coffee cup.
Turns out I sold a book that is exactly that!
Who knew?

Which just goes to show you don't have to know what it is to:
1. love it
2. take it on
3. describe it
4. sell it

What a hoot!
And no, I don't take SFF at all, so how I ended up with this can only be explained by the first great rule of Snark: writing trumps all.
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6 comments:

M. G. Tarquini said...

That's what I write. Magical realism in its varied and far-flung forms. I have to explain it to people all the time. It's hard to explain. I should pick a better defined genre, because it's really hard to figure out from the listings who might be interested in it. Your post today is encouraging. Thanks!

11/26/2005
Harry Connolly said...

Urban Fantasy. Or, as you may know it, "magic realism."

/facepalm

11/26/2005
domynoe said...

There's a difference between urban fantasy and magical realism. Someone better tell this writer that. :P

11/26/2005
Bonnie Calhoun said...

Yikes! I love word pictures...blood drinking elves...was the way my brain boiled down the whole article.

Urban fantasy...cool tag!

11/26/2005
SAND STORM said...

of course you are known to take a wee nip now and then....maybe with gin lenses it looked like Atwood?

11/26/2005
Rachel Vincent said...

I write Urban/Dark Fantasy. I studied Magical Realism in a writing seminar once long, long ago. The two don't merge much, in my humble opinion, in spite of several surface-only similarities. But I like them both.

11/27/2005

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