Today I’m celebrating the launch of Trent Jamieson’s book Death Most Definite, published by Orbit, part of the Death Works trilogy.
Here is the trailer.
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Tren’t s book is set in Brisbane with a quirky hero and an off beat premise. It’s a refreshing take on Dark Urban Fantasy.
Go Trent!
I get to celebrate!
Over at the ROR blog Kylie Chan has done a post on Sustaining Plots. Since this is book six of her Dark Heaven series, she can speak with authority. She’s also doing a giveaway of ‘Hell to Heaven’.
Go Kylie!
My good friend Trent Jamieson has been interviewed over at The Australian Literature Review.
He talks about how he writes:
‘Well, I’m not much of a planner, so first drafts are generally me trying things out and trying to make sense of stuff. Most of this book was written at the Toowong Library (in the local history section) in longhand. I’d walk down there every weekday, that I wasn’t working, listening to the same music to get me in the right frame of mind (mainly, for the first book Okkervil River, Gotye, and Spoon) and write until I’d filled about eight pages or so of my notebook. Then I’d go home and type them into my computer.’
Having read Trent’s book in its final form before it went off to the publisher (and loving it then) I’m really looking forward to getting a copy of it when it released.
And over at the Galaxy blog, Trent has done a guest post on his new series and writing in general.
For more on Trent and his weird and wondferful world view, drop by his blog.
When my husband said you must watch this show, it’s about a werewolf, a ghost and a vampire in a share house in Bristol trying to pass for human, I thought I have to see this.
This is the only show I actually watch on TV. (I really must get the series on DVD).
I thoroughly enjoyed the first season. And I’m finding the second season raises some lovely moral abiguities and puts the characters through the mill. Just the sort of quandries I like.
I love it that their ambition is to be ordinary!
Filed under Characterisation, creativity, Dark Urban Fantasy, Genre, Movies & TV Shows
It is always a thrill when someone you’ve known for years gets published. Here is the cover of Nicole Murphy’s new book, first of a series. They are dark urban fantasy.
Over on the ROR blog Nicole is talking about the process of getting published and there’s a giveaway!
The Dream of Asarlai is an urban fantasy trilogy being published in Australia by HarperVoyager. The first book, Secret Ones, is due to hit the shelves in July, with the other two books appearing next year.
Here’s the blurb.
She′s from an ancient clan. He has no family. Can they save the world … together?
Maggie Shaunessy is used to keeping secrets. She′s a fantastic teacher, but she′s also gadda, part of a hidden, powerful race – and she has a habit of annoying the wrong people.
Until Lucas Valeroso meets Maggie, he had no idea what awaited him: super-human powers, a smart and beautiful woman interested in more than unlocking his new abilities and, above all, a sense of belonging.
But dark ambition and dangerous bigotry are emerging in the gadda ranks. Lucas′s new family might cast him out before he′s even truly found his place. And Maggie must work with new allies to find and retrieve a missing artefact before the entire world is changed for all time.
′fresh and interesting approach to an urban fantasy series′ Bookseller+Publisher’
Support Aussie authors not only becaue they’re Australian, but because they write damn fine books!
Just when you thought you’d seen all the permutations you possible could in the Dark Urban Fantasy genre along comes something fresh.
Power and Majesty by Tansy Rayner Roberts.
Of course I am biased. I read Tansy’s book in draft form before it was published as part of a ROR writers retreat. And I’ve been hanging out for the next instalment ever since.
She takes the decadence and frivolity of Ancient Rome, combines it with the Roaring Twenties, Sky Battles and Seriously Sexy Shape-shifters. Impossible you say?
But don’t listen to me. See here and here for what the reviewers are saying.
And if that doesn’t convince you, go here for a podcast reading.
And the best thing is that we RORees are on a countdown for another ROR right before World Con in September, so I get to read book two of the Creature Court!
For those of you who like Dark Urban Fantasy, here is a review of Trent Jamieson’s book. Death Most Definite. They say:
‘The fascinating central premise of Death as a corporate interest is handled in a serious and frighteningly credible manner, allowing for some engrossing and inventive world-building on the author’s part; the twist-laden plot belts along at breathtaking pace from page one (‘unputdownable’ is a fair description)’
Naturally, I’m delighted with this. I got to read Trent’s book in the final draft at ROR in March 2009 when we stayed in Maleny. Lots of delicious cooking, thanks to Dirk Flinthart, lots of wine and lots of talk about the craft of writing, while analysing my friends’ wonderful books. What could be better?
And here is the bookplate I designed for Trent. Look out for book one of his Death Works trilogy in the bookstores in August.
