I just got my copy of Tall, Dark and Dead by Tate Halloway. I can't wait to start itttttttt. <3

I think I have heard of that one, but I have not read it.

Believe or not, I'm actually not the biggest fan of Tolkein as far as his writing goes. He puts a great world and story together, but he still writes like an English professor. There are authors I like better for their writing but Tolkein's stories generally make up for it.

so i am going to feel a little dumb but i want to know, is it only published works we talk about here? because i am not really into talking about non-fiction and food books but i don't know what the feeling is here about web-lititure like....well fanfiction and self-published fiction

I mostly know fantasy and YA novels that have major publication.

I don't mind if you talk about fan fiction, but I may not have any idea of what stories you are mentioning since I have hardly read any.

I imagine self-published stuff would be fine, since sites like LuLu are devoted to the practice and word of mouth is one way the market gets bigger. Anything posted online is usually considered 'self published' also for the purposes of publication to most magazines, when considering works submitted to them.

Yeah, fan fiction could be a little tough if people aren't familiar with the subject it's based on.

Those are my thoughts anyway.

I started reading Airs Beneath the Moon by Toby Bishop today.

It is rather good so far.

Never heard of it, or the author I don't think. He doesn't sound familiar.

It is a fantasy novel that came out almost five years ago.

It has winged horses in it. <3

Fairly standard for a fantasy book. :). Do they have a special role in the story or are they just there for flavour?

Slightly standard fantasy story. : An uplands farm peasant girl bonds with a newborn winged foal, so she has to go to the Academy of the Air and learn to be a horsemistress. Usually only the daughters of nobles bond with them. The horses only allow (virgin) women to ride them and do not allow men (adult males) to approach them too close. However, the new Duke - who is in charge of the horses - is jealous of the horsemistresses' independence from his control and freedom to fly. He wants to bond with a winged horse, and was trying to breed one in secret to start his own flying academy. That foal he was breeding was the one the girl bonded with. That is why the Duke hates her in particular. Plus he is taking potions that are starting to turn him into a woman - just to let you know how nuts the Duke is.


I suppose he should have just tried being a eunuch. It might have been easier and quicker. XP I have started reading the second book in the trilogy. I'll have to see about getting the third.

Reminds me of a similar story I read but it dealt with sort of pseudo magical horses instead. The story was that only men could ride them (medieval basis here) but the horses figure that't just male human drivel. They are telepathic but find it difficult to talk to humans because of our complicated brains. The bad guy in the story attempts to gain one these horses for a mount but after crippling him, it casts itself off a cliff rather than let the man ride him. It wasn't bad for a book I got at a garage sale. I can't remember the title, something like "Dark Horse" (typical, I know) but the horses in question were called Hunnulis and were all black with a lighting bolt mark on their shoulder. Can't remember the author either. I'm not proving very helpfull here it seems.

The heroine is a girl that disguises herself as a boy (also typical in a sense) so that she may claim revenge for her dead clan herself rather than depending on a male relative to take up her cause and do it for her.

*Checks Amazon.*

Yup. It looks like Dark Horse by Mary Herbert.

I have the books in the series. ^.^

It's a series? I only had the one book which I snagged from a garage sale. I didn't know it was part of a series.


EDIT: so it is. These might be the kind of things that are good for e-readers, since they aren't easy to find in book form. I might start looking for some of the others. I gave away Dark Horse long ago.

EDIT EDIT: damn! not in my reader store. Oh well. One more book to add to the used book store search.

Amazon used --

Old paperback : $1

Shipping : $4.99

Reading amusement : Priceless.

I like digging stuff up myself rather than going online. Call me old fashioned. Plus, we have buckets of credit at a local used book store. I'm currenly on the lookout for anything by Erich Maria Remarque.