Posts Tagged ‘otherwriters’
Finished Mockingjay. Loved Mockingjay.
But wondering: why all the middling reactions toward Mockingjay? I wouldn’t call it “hate,” exactly — but I was warned repeatedly that the third book was essentially a big disappointment from the high of the previous two.
A.N. Smith is the dude responsible for writing the entirely brilliant CHOKE ON YOUR LIES. Which, by the way, is at the crazy-low price of $2.99. Anthony Neil Smith knows the score, and he’d like to prove it to you. A Day In The Life Of Anthony Neil Smith.
CHOOSE YOUR DOOM: ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE — penned by fellow penmonkeys DeAnna Knippling and Dante Savelli — is just like those early iterations except for the fact that the book has no happy endings. It has awesome endings. But none of them are particularly happy.
Last year, I wrote a post about this book I’d read — Santa Steps Out: A Fairy-Tale For Grown-Ups — which was a terribly demented (yet kinda sweet) Christmas story about how the Tooth Fairy seduces Santa Claus and how the world is kind of… caught in the middle of this mess.
Here’s the core of the article, though I’ll suggest you read the whole thing just to bask in the cascading waves of vinegar and water: Docx is resigning genre work to the ghetto, a ghetto whose walls and fences have been put in place by those “literary” writers who want to scrap it up in various dick-swinging turf wars.
