Fantasy Aficionados discussion

OMG! OMG! OMG!!!!

As I'm sure everyone here already knows....I have a major thing for Andre Norton.

Major.

Like, super Major.

So imagine my surprise to read an interview today for author Alethea Kontis. Never heard of this woman in my entire life.

But there she was. Being interviewed [partly] because she was nominated for the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy. O_O
OMG!

Do y'all have ANY clue how much I LOVE Andre Norton???!

OMG.


So, as I'm reading the interview (and I normally don't read these...I actually started by skimming and then went back when my greedy little eyes saw the name Andre Norton)...I find out this chick was MENTORED by Andre Norton. !!!!

O_O

OMG!!

First, I am SO FREAKING JEALOUS! This is the first time I've wished to be a writer, older, and to live in the middle of TN. WTF??! OMG! I could have actually MET Andre Norton if I'd have had those things happen for me.

Damn it!

So - in lieu of being older, a writer and living down the road from Andre Norton in TN - of course I now need to go read this book, Enchanted. (It's the one nominated for the award).

I have no clue how I'll like it...but she's made a sale based on being mentored by Andre Norton. Wow. So excited. So jealous. Wow.



Anyone else have an odd or weird way in which they were introduced to a new to them author?

I was introduced to Jennifer Roberson's Tiger and Del novels because it had a the same word in the title as an Anne McCaffrey novel. Is that weird?

I was twelve and I'd just read Crystal Singer and I was scanning the local book store's sci-fi/fantasy shelf when I saw Sword Singer. I got the book purely on the name. I can't explain why my twelve year old brain made a connection between the two but it did and the novels of Tiger and Del are my favorite books out of everything I've ever read.

I don't think I've ever read anything by Andre Norton--I should fix that, pronto.

I got introduced to Jim Butcher because of problems in the online audio elibrary site Overdrive. It used to be really buggy, and while it was loading, it incorrectly paired up titles and cover images. I was trying to check out something else--I think Artemis Fowl--and clicking on its cover landed me on the checkout page for Academ's Fury. Overdrive also used to be frustratingly slow and after looking at a book page, you couldn't always return to your previous place in the search, so I figured I might as well give it a try. 21 books later, I think that incident might have addicted me to Jim Butcher's writing.

jaw wrote: "I was introduced to Jennifer Roberson's Tiger and Del novels because it had a the same word in the title as an Anne McCaffrey novel. Is that weird?

I was twelve and I'd just read Crystal Singer an..."

I've read most of that series! In HS as well.

I just can't remember how I picked them up...

...it might have been the "sword."

Carly wrote: "I don't think I've ever read anything by Andre Norton--I should fix that, pronto.

I got introduced to Jim Butcher because of problems in the online audio elibrary site Overdrive. It used to be re..."

That's great! Thats a great way to make a bug work for you.

Hope your new "acquaintance" turns out to be someone you enjoy reading. =]

Ann Bishop's Tirr Alain trilogy was the result of a cashier's mistake. There was an older woman cashing out ahead of me and somehow I ended up with one of her books, which happened to be the last volume of the trilogy, The House of Gaian.

I only found out I had an extra book when I got home, but I did pay for it with out realizing. I figured since I had it, I might as well read the trilogy, so I hunted the first book down. I ended up really enjoying it, though it isn't one of my favorites.

For some reason, I didn't realize till years later that it was the same Ann Bishop that wrote the Black Jewels trilogy (which I have yet to read).

Sophie wrote: "Hope your new "acquaintance" turns out to be someone you enjoy reading. =]

Ann Bishop's Tirr Alain trilogy was the result of a cashier's mistake. There was an older woman cashing out ahead of me a..."


Just got the book today! Let's see how it goes. :)

Fingers crossed, x.

I went on a vacation to Antigua, where we stayed in a beach resort. It had a 'library', which is to say a couple bookcases filled with paperbacks abandoned by previous guests. Most of these were cheap romances and airport bestsellers, but I did find a British trade paper edition of AN INSTANCE OF THE FINGERPOST by Iain Pears. The original owner had abandoned it about a hundred pages in (there was a bookmark marking the place). OMG, what a wonderful book! Kept me happy on the beach for days,

Brenda wrote: "I went on a vacation to Antigua, where we stayed in a beach resort. It had a 'library', which is to say a couple bookcases filled with paperbacks abandoned by previous guests. Most of these were c..."

That is so cool!